Another weekend...

Friday -- walked around town going to yard sales, payed bills, perused some stores, road our bikes to the library, walked to the store for a rotisserie chicken and some Italian bread for dinner, watched The Andy Griffith Show on DVD from Netflix

Saturday -- did laundry, dishes, played on the internet, worked on my CQ square, found some cross stitch projects I started years ago and did some work on one (the bee sampler to go on a pillow for Noelle), made a pasta salad for dinner, Kirk and Noelle went to Walmart for a giant sub for dinner and to get Noelle some shorts, watched The Andy Griffith Show on DVD (another one)

Sunday -- Kirk had to work today, kids and I went to church without him, I had power point today and recorded the sermon from our guest speaker Ed Black (a missionary to Croatia), took Noelle to Walmart to exchange her shorts (dad let her buy a size too small), got home and did dishes, walked to the store, made coleslaw and chicken drumsticks for dinner, did dishes, relaxed for a while, then wrote on this blog :)

Off to bed now, night all!

Interest-led Learning

We make almost weekly trips to the library throughout the year. We leave with a lot, and I mean a lot, of books to peruse, read, share, discuss, and enjoy. The books come from all sections of the library and we've been known to disappear into those books for the next few days. I thought I'd share our current list of books just to show our family's interests. Yes, all of us, because you never stop learning and besides, its fun.

Exquisite little knits by Schreier & Kimmelstiel

Medieval warfare by Koch, H. W.

The pied piper of Hamelin by Browning, Robert - F. Warne

The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Corrin, Sara

Archaeology by Barnes, Trevor

The late Middle Ages

The archaeology detectives

Then & now by Perring, Stefania

The complete idiot's guide to genealogy by Rose, Christine

Genealogy online for dummies by Helm, Matthew L.

Firefly guide to flags of the world

Ever by Levine, Gail Carson

Princely feasts and festivals by Holme, Bryan

Secrets of the Middle Ages by Harpur, James

Goldsmiths by Cherry, John

Unicorns of Balinor series:
The road to Balinor by Stanton, Mary
Sunchaser's quest By Stanton, Mary
Valley of fear by Stanton, Mary
By fire, by moonlight by Stanton, Mary
Search for the star by Stanton, Mary
Secrets of the scepter by Stanton, Mary
Night of the shifter's moon by Stanton, Mary

In the time of knights by Tanaka, Shelley

The last knight by Bell, Hilari
Forging the sword by Bell, Hilari
Rise of a hero by Bell, Hilari

The Spiderwick Chronicles:
The nixie's song by DiTerlizzi, Tony
The wrath of Mulgarath by DiTerlizzi, Tony
The ironwood tree by DiTerlizzi, Tony
Lucinda's secret by DiTerlizzi, Tony
The seeing stone by DiTerlizzi, Tony
The field guide by DiTerlizzi, Tony
Fall of a kingdom by Bell, Hilari

Elements Series:
Nickel by Sparrow, Giles
Titanium by Woodford, Chris
Lead by Watt, Susan
Copper by Beatty, Richard
Tin by Gray, Leon
Silver by Watt, Susan
Platinum by Wood, Ian
Aluminum by Farndon, John
Hydrogen by Farndon, John

Falling up by Silverstein, Shel
Runny Babbit by Silverstein, Shel
Where the sidewalk ends by Silverstein, Shel

Rainbow Magic:
Holly the Christmas fairy by Meadows, Daisy
Ruby the red fairy by Meadows, Daisy
Lauren the puppy fairy by Meadows, Daisy
Sophie the sapphire fairy by Meadows, Daisy
Chloe the topaz fairy by Meadows, Daisy
India the moonstone fairy by Meadows, Daisy

Sleepover sleuths by Keene, Carolyn

The Random House book of poetry for children by Prelutsky, Jack

ER vets by Jackson, Donna M.

Mermaid tales from around the world

Rumpelstiltskin by Zelinsky, Paul O.

Magazines, Magazines, Magazines

Woo Hoo!!! Our public library had its annual magazine giveaway and this is our haul.

Yeah, the magazines are 6 years old but who cares, they were free (great for all of us on strict budgets). The kids and I will be engrossed in these for the next few days.

For me the crochet, knitting, and cross stitch magazines will be useful for years to come. I also hope to glean some insight from Popular Photography.

Noelle is excited about the American Girl magazines because now she can write her answers to puzzles and quizzes in them. The Dog Fancy magazines will be cherished by her as well, she's dog crazy!

Kyle was happy about the Astronomy and Archeology ones because he has just recently begun digging into these areas.

Discovery

Know what else is great about our library being online? I can now see what books we have checked out and when they are due. Books seem to stream all over our house and we forget what we've got, lol. We are supposed to eventually be able to renew books online (not too difficult right now as we can do it over the phone). I was told that in switching to the new system the books I checked out would only be in history from the time the system started in April. Well, today I got a nice surprise, our book history goes clear back to June 2007. I have found that I did not write a lot of titles down that were read, so you can see why it was a nice surprise for me. Have I mentioned I hate paperwork?..............

Our Library

is finally online!!!!!!

Hallelujah!

I no longer have to keep record of the many, many, many books my kids check out all year long. You see, the library being online now does it for me!!

Can you tell I'm excited?!

Want to know what would make me out of this world happy though? Not having to keep records at all.

Well, in the meantime, I'll just praise God that keeping records has become easier ;)