SPLATS & Delights {My Friday Funnies, Flops, and Fails Homeschool WrapUp}

DoodleMom

7 years ago

SPLATS & Delights {Friday Funnies, Flops, and Fails Homeschool WrapUp}

SPLATS and Delights Our week was filled with ups and downs this week. SPLATs and Delights. My kids were sick this week, just the last week before we declare vacation until the new year. I guess that is one of the downsides of homeschooling – you still do lessons when you are sick. But I try to give my kids lots of treats like hot chocolate, tea, and chicken soup when they are sick as well.

So this morning I asked my poor, cold-ridden daughter what she wanted for breakfast and she said, “Hamantaschen.”

I haven’t actually ever made a Hamantaschen, but I have eaten a lot of them. So, I figured I would give it a shot. (If you look at the picture you can see I had the wrong filling and the shapes are not so true to the original, but I gave it my best try.)

Unfortunately, my kitchen this morning looks like a tribe of ravenous Tolkein-like dwarves rampaged through last night.

As I was moving the pots and pans to make room for the mixer, I dropped the cast-iron pot with the leftover Chicken Divan from last night. Splat! All over the floor! Then I slipped and fell trying to walk across it in bare feet to get to the paper towels. . . That was how my morning started.

It turned out OK, though.

The dog was delighted with the Chicken Divan treat and licked everything up, making clean up a breeze! And the Hamantaschen are almost all eaten up, so they must have passed muster.

This morning was a metaphor for my whole homeschooling week.

We tried some new things. Some of them went splat and failed (like my third attempt to explain the concept and history of Sine and Cosine to my son), and some were delights (like a new book we got in the mail to review).

We Got A New Book In The Mail!

We got a new book in the mail to review this week written by Bonnie Rose Hudson, one of my favorite children’s authors!

The Hidden Village is a wonderful story about a young boy who discovers a hidden village in India and embarks on an adventure to help them. It is a story of what it means fundamentally to evangelize and how a small boy can make a difference. But, I will have a complete review of the book soon – as soon as I can get it away from my children grabbed it to read the moment it came out of the packaging!