Thanksgiving party!

Yesterday we attended our homeschool groups annual Thanksgiving party. The crafts were broken up in stations, and the children were divided up by grade. My children being younger had a snack/treat first. There were some very delicious selections. They then went to play some fun games such as duck,duck,turkey! And then they had a relay race. They had to transport teddy grahams by the spoonfuls to a bowl across the room. Then they had the class picture taken. To top off the afternoon fun they had a craft. They made thankful trees from foam.

This week in our homeschool we are studying the Pilgrims. We are using a book called Sarah Mortons Day. We are learning what the pilgrims ate, wore and what types of houses they lived in. Today (Thursday) we had our annual Mayflower dinner, in which we make indian cornbread (3 C. boiling water to 2 C. cornmeal make into patties and bake for about 15 min. at 425) and then take some stale ginger ale aka. "ale" we also take beef jerky, a homemade beezwax candle, a cd player with ocean sounds on it and we head into the dark basement. The basement is the Mayflower and we stay in here eating our "food" singing hymns in the candle light. We stay in here until our cd gets to the part where we begin to hear seagulls. Then I shout "land ho" and we all pile out of the "Mayflower" into our warm kitchen where we eat our chicken corn chowder, cheese, rolls w/butter and drink hot spiced cider. Today one of the older girls noticed how much more comfortable our dining room chairs are compared to the cold basement floor LOL! We did have one of our "pilgrims" with a bit of a sour disposition (Im sure you can guess who mom LOL)so we threatened to put her back on the Mayflower!

I talked to Jaimie today, and she is still not really having much action. She said that baby is probably going to be one of those strong willed children (which I wouldn't doubt!). So hopefully I will have more news for you all this weekend