Valentine's Party

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY from Cultivate Homeschool!

A few of my favorite things..

I have really been enjoying my kids and family as of late. Not that I don't usually enjoy them, but, I have just had an awakening to how much fun they all are. What a blessing to be a wife and mother to this crew. I figured I better blog about it so that on some future frustrating day..I can look back and remember...

Steve and Derek have been working hard on Derek's science project. Determining which metal is softest-aluminum, copper or brass. Here they are cutting the metal to be tested..

For FHE we each made valentines day mailboxes that we hung on our bedroom doors. We spent the week filling up each others boxes with notes of love and appreciation. You can see that this girl is loved AND appreciated.

I couldn't resist getting a picture of the new glasses. Isn't she cute?? You can almost see the little heart she had in her hair for V-day today. We've had fun putting hearts in her hair all week.

And here's my boy with his newly acquired braces. Life is constantly moving and busy at our house...but for the most part..I sure enjoy these guys.

Will it ever end?

Here we go again! All of our sporting events have been cancelled for tonight and who knows about tomorrow? Darin spent the better part of the evening blowing a fresh 10 inches of snow. The only bright spot is that the boyz are getting a ton of use out of the snowmobiles.

So far our school has been lucky and as of today we don't need to make any of the snow days up. Today we made it to school and then let out at 10:30.

We have had 5 sets of friends recently come back from Mexico and tell us how wonderful it was. The next couple to tell us they are going someplace warm is getting a snowball right in the kisser.

Well I'm heading some place warm too! I'm going to put my feet up in front of the fireplace door and sip on some beverage that doesn't have a drink umbrella in it and watch the travel channel.

The Toymaker

Archiving Emails I came across one I hadn't really looked at before... And WOW! I love this site! My older kids will have a lot of fun with these paper toys. :)

The Toymaker

Haha... a funny for your Sunday

Ms Stinerite

Late winter nature table

This nature table is such a reflection of what is going on in our yard right now. Once again, it is blank... even more blank than the winter nature table. In the yard we have been pruning, cleaning, raking, and carefully replanting. Our trees are coming this next week and we have to find a place to put them all. I have given The Man the task of getting the garbage and yard waste from the carpet pulling and the ivy cutting to it's rightful place... so far that has been an epic fail. The kids and I have been making a dent in it though... as much as a single yard waste bin every two weeks can do. ;)

Back to the nature table though. I added these sweet little paper roses for the celebration of Valentine's day (I know, no roses would usually be blooming right now, but this is the only place in the house they will be safe). I made Mother Nature a beautiful valour cape with a red silk ribbon and she is holding a red glass heart (I love red glass!).

Here is one of our candles from our Imbolc candle making.

Perfect for the celebration of the new light!

If you look really closely, you can see our little teasel hedgehog under the story 'The Hat' by Jan Brett. :) So cute!

Creation day #3

We started the rest of the work for our creation books today. The kids have really enjoyed the project so far and we have learned a lot about wet on wet painting. Cyan, being my artist, wasn't sure about the medium at first. She really isn't a fan of having colors go in directions that you don't plan. She is getting used to it though, and she is making some beautiful paintings!

Her painting from the third day.

And God said, "Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear." And it was so. God called the dry land Earth, and the waters that were gathered together he called Seas. And God saw that it was good.

Alex's

Mine