Boo!

Happy Halloween!






The lead up to my favorite holiday is now a distant blur, but I'll take a shot at a quick recap of what we've been doing.

According to my calendar:

• We've been to the Baltimore Science Museum with our friends, the Marts. It was recently re-done and is terrific. We spent 5 hours there and no one got bored. The kids all had a great time with each other too.
  
• Decorated for the holiday
• Park Day with the Unschoolers
  
• Brownies, Katie earned her first triad patch, but we don't have it yet, so she's really not aware of it
• Cox Farm's harvest festival
  
• Ready Readers at the library
• Wolf Cubs, Zack earned his Bobcat badge and was extremely proud.
• Bowling with the SpringTree HS group
  
• Dance class for Katie
• "Bingoween" over at the elementary school
• Boo at the Zoo
  
• Made another Halloween Pie
• Cookies for the Brownies Halloween party
• Pumpkin carving and painting
  
• Trick-or-Treating

Somewhere in there we also made some paper mache ghosts, which turned out OK considering I didn't realize that you should pop the balloons only AFTER painting them. The paper got all soft and mushy again after the paint went on and not having the balloons to hold the shapes made it pretty tricky to do. And, you know, math, reading, talk about planets and some other schooly stuff.

Whew. All of this was great, but I'm dead and fairly grouchy, so I need to take a look at our schedule and slow us down a bit. It was a tough week with Zack too. All the crazy hours and excitement over the holiday had him completely unfocused and difficult to move along to do anything.

I really get what they mean when they tell me that the challenge with HSing is scheduling time to be home!