Day 87

Ok, so last week was a really off week for Project 365.  I just wasn't feeling it.  I am going to try to do better this week, which is going to be interesting.  We've already had our house turned upside while a new water heater was being installed . . . and are getting ready to pay a visit to my sister!  This pic was taken at my nephew's birthday party on Sunday.  Baby girl and G and G Gorbics.

Day 85

M modeling his new swim goggles!  Getting ready for summer!

Day 84

No school today, it was a sick day.  Baby Girl was up last night getting sick and L had

a headache and a fever.  M is helping by washing his sister's toys.  Aren't bubbles fun?!

Day 83

Lovin' Steak'n Shake!

Day 82

Wordless (and pictureless) Wednesday! :(

Day 80 and 81

Monday

The boys at one of their two forts.  I have a feeling they will be out there alot this summer!

Sunday

D and I stayed up Sunday night juicing, making butter and muffins.  Homemade is alot more work, but was much more fun together.  This is the whip cream stage. 

Monday's Mason

Vol. 4 Chap. XIX, Principles:  Justice in Motive:

"Good principles are offered to us in an unobtrusive way, with little force and little urging.  Bad principles are clamorous and urgent, drowning the voice of conscience by noisy talk, inviting us to go the way we are inclined and to do the thing we like."

Day 79

Happy Birthday to my nephew!

His nickname is "Little Man".

Can you guess what the theme was?

Day 78

Still celebrating a birthday-presents are fun, especially when they come in the mail!

Day 77

This is the Easter dress we didn't pick.

Day 76

Day 75

Day 74

Baby Girl wants to thank G.G. for helping her out with the high-chair!  She was slipping all around before these great cushions were put it!  Let's hope she doesn't make too much of a mess on them!

Monday's Mason

Vol. 4, Chapt.VI, Love's Lords in Waiting:  Generosity

Generous Impulses common to all the World: "The nature of Generosity is to bring forth, to give, always at the cost of personal suffering or deprivation, little or great.  There is no generosity in giving what we shall never miss and do not want; this is mere good-nature, and it is not even kindness, unless it springs out of a real thought about another person's needs."

Day 73 - M's 6th Birthday!

Thought this might be the easiest way to show M's 6th birthday celebration!  Thanks everyone for making it a special day for him! 

Day 72

Going . . . going . . . gone!

8 months old!

Baby Girl is 8 months old!  She is getting so big!  She just started blowing

raspberries this week - too funny! 

And here is M at about 8 months!  Look at all that hair!  He is turning

6 on Sunday! 

I don't have pics of the older two boys, we weren't digital yet!  It'll take time

for me to round those up, maybe for her 9 month pic I'll have some to compare!

Day 70

No school means watching cartoons before everyone else gets up.

Day 68

I'm so excited!  The sun was shining again today!

Isn't that wonderful?!

What?  It's gonna rain tomorrow?

Day 67

Can you spot the deer?  Sorry, I didn't have time to zoom, I was afraid I would miss the moment!  We were sitting in the living room by the front window playing Sorry (on a break from school this week) and J looked up and said "deer".  Not a deer, but 9 of them waiting to cross the road!  Luckily, they all made it across safely!

Monday's Mason

Vol. 4, Chapter XIV, Truth:  Justice in Word

"We must keep our tongues from evil-speaking, lying and slandering; and Wesley says that to speak evil of another when it is true is to slander, and when it is false, is to lie."

Day 66

It hit 50 today!  And sunny!  Time for a walk with Baby Girl!

Day 65

My poor husband, it is 45 and sunny out and he can't go out and run or bike.  So, he'll just sit inside with his SIDI shoes on!

Day 64

What a day!  We went to see Swan Lake in the morning . . .

and L had his Cultural Art Festival in the evening. 

A Byzantine mosaic.

Egyptian hieroglyphic name plates.

Day 63

A night out with some friends and yummy sushi!

Day 63

For J's geography he is going through the book titled "Explore the Holy Land" by Ann Voscamp.  So far, one of his favorite things is the recipes she has put in the book from different locations.  We have made date balls - very messy and suprisingly yummy (sorry, I wasn't sure what to expect with dates) and hummus.  I have now added this recipe to my collection it is so good and easy!  J had made the first few batches, but now I think I'm on my own.

2 cloves of garlic, 1/4 cup each of water and lemon juice, 1 can chick peas/garbanzo beans, 1tsp. salt and 1/2 cup tahini!  Blend in food processor!  Use pita chips or veggies to dip!

Day 62

Baby Girl spending some time with her daddy.

And yes, he is trying to vacuum the dog  . . . and did not succeed. 

Just because the vacuum says "animal" does not mean you use it on an animal!

Day 61

They (the sun and sky) do exist!!

What a great way to start out the month of March!

Monday's Mason

Vol. 4, Chapter X
Humility one with Simplicity - "Humility is perhaps one with Simplicity, and does not allow us to think of ourselves at all, ill or well.  That is why a child is humble.  The thought of self does not come to him at all; when it does, he falls from his child estate and becomes what we call self-conscious.  In that wonderful first lesson of the Garden of Eden, the Fall consisted in our first parents becoming aware of themselves; and that is how we fall - when we become aware."
"Humility sits within us all, waiting for pride to be silent that he may speak and be heard."