Our Week in Review, November 19-23, 2018

This has been a busy week; an emotional week; a rather enjoyable week.

Monday my Botanist Boy arrived from Texas by plane. We didn't get to go to the airport to meet him, but we pretended we saw his plane fly overhead. My oldest son picked him up, and took him to his apartment.

We actually didn't even get to see him until late Wednesday night, when he was delivered on our doorstep.

Of course there was a lot of food preparation and feasting going on this week.

My oldest wasn't able to join us for dinner, because he worked 7 am-8 pm on Thanksgiving day. His fiance couldn't join us, either, since she had all kinds of family here, for the big day.

My parents joined us (my remaining three offspring), and my oldest son's best friend and his girlfriend, since they were here from out of state for the wedding. Well, he's like another son, anyway. <grin>

After we ate, the young people played table games for awhile. There was cleaning up to do, and they all helped with that.

Today we had to return Botanist Boy back to my oldest son. They had last minute wedding preparation stuff to do, and groom's men activities planned. I took advantage of the brief 15 minutes that the five of us were together, with no one else around, to catch a couple photos. Our last sibling shots, before my oldest became "an old married man."

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Today, I am the most thankful for these people, whom I love with my whole heart and soul. I'm thankful for the privilege of being their mom.

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Wordless Wednesday, October 31 {with link up}

Every once in awhile, I'll include homeschool related photos. My youngest son, who has learning challenges, finished his online math class. It took him 15 months to finish all of both semesters, and his final grade was 87.69%! I am certainly proud of my son for persevering.

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My "baby" is SIXTEEN!!

This week began our summer birthday season. It is an incredulous idea that my youngest is now 16. How did that happen so quickly?

The week didn't go quite as I'd hoped. I wanted to be able to do several fun activities with him, but it just didn't happen. He didn't seem all that interested, so I didn't push it.

He did seem to pleased to receive these seasons of NCIS: Los Angeles, from his sister and me.

The Marion Theater in Ocala has $2 movies in the mornings during the summer. So Jen took him to see Jurassic Park on his birthday. (I couldn't go, because the vehicle we are currently driving has no AC, and the windows can't roll up and down. It just gets too hot in that vehicle; the intense heat makes me ill)

I think he enjoyed it.

For that $2, not only do you get to see a movie, but you get a small popcorn and a drink.

We gathered together at Olive Garden for his birthday dinner, which included the grandparents, and Tim with his fiance.

Grandma and Grandpa gave him a musical birthday card.

I had the build your own lasagna: five cheese marinara sauce and the garden veggies.

Jen had build your own pasta: linguine, maybe alfredo sauce, and garden veggies.

The birthday boy chose the baked ziti.

And of course, you can't forget the salad and the breadsticks! Birthday boy also got a free dessert.

It was an enjoyable evening. It's always a highlight when I have my kids together...but we were missing one. I'm still not used to not having him around!

My middle son posted this on his Instagram feed, telling his little brother happy birthday, along with a couple stunning photos he'd taken last fall.

 Those eyes!

My youngest has gone from tiny baby, to towering over me. And it seems like it happened in the blink of an eye.

So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. Psalm 90:12.

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Summer Teen Camp

Last week, SJ attended summer camp for the first time ever.

Now, I will admit that he isn't a noisy person, but the house was way too quiet without him. It was so quiet, I couldn't think! Ha!

We had to wait a long time in a long line for registration.

We were with friends from church.

When we were finished, we deposited our campers at their respective lodges.

Milo looked for SJ each morning. The neighbors' dogs looked for him each time they were taken out for walks. My folks' dog looked for him on Dad's dominoes night/Mom's and my Hallmark movie night.

I was able to send him an email each day. And I scoured the photos the camp posted each day to see if I could find any pictures of SJ.

Word has it, he had a fun time, and hopes to go again next year.

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Another Milestone

We are celebrating a major milestone for SJ: his 8th grade graduation! We both have put in a lot of hard work, together, because I have to read almost everything for him, thanks to his learning challenges.

We had just a simple little ceremony. We invited Grandma and Grandpa over. I presented him with his diploma. We took a couple pictures.

And had cake and ice cream. And that was that! Congratulations to my youngest!! Next big event, one month from today, he celebrates his 16th birthday!

Be sure to stop by the Homeschool Review Crew blog, to congratulate all our graduates.

A couple months ago, we posted a review for Homeschool Diploma, if you want to go read it.

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