Friday update

Here are the kids after our moonlit walk out in the pasture. The moon was so full this night that you could see well enough to take a hike. Scott and the kids painted their faces like Indians and had a great time!


Here is a nightly ritual at our house - Scott and the little ones playing bull.
Scott is the bull and they all try to ride the bucking bull. He trys to gore them.
Great fun with Daddy! I don't think they will remember most of what we do but I think they will remember stuff like this!



I think Ben has got the bull in this one!

We have also had another funny bug story. Our house must be a magnet for strange and weird bugs!! Ben came running in the den screaming that there was a strange insect next to the garbage can in the kitchen. He said he thought it was a queen ant. The head looked like an ant head and there were no visible wings. Anyway he scooped it up and put it on the counter for me to look at it more closely. I called brother Jerry , the entomologist, and he said to take a pic and email it to him. So I did. He said it is a blister beetle and I sure do hope you all did not touch it. Well as I was taking a pic I touched it to turn it over. He said well send me pics; you will be in my next book!! I started screaming HORRORS!! He said the blister beetle oozes out a substance that causes terrible blisters and that I would have them on wherever this ooze touched. I had touched the bug and rubbed my eyes and who knows what else!!!!! I was horrified. We scrubbed the children's hands and waited for the blisters. Thankfully, I must not have touched the bug ooze because the next morning I had NO blisters!!

I had no idea such bugs even lived in Mississippi. SO, beware of any bug that looks like this one.

Our coop for today was cancelled due to illness. Several of our 13 families doing this unit had sickness this week, so we decided to spend some more time on the Midwest states.

I am glad because there was SO much to cover in this section. With my group we are doing a 4 week project on Lewis and Clark. We are writing a script together. I gave them an outline of a script with 10 scenes pertaining to the expedition and we are going to fill in the blanks with information they learn at home and then film the scenes at coop. I think they are excited about this project. We are also planning to cook pioneer recipes and make butter in a real old fashioned churn. We plan to top off the day by making a possible bag like the pioneers used. I will post pictures of these next week.

I am hoping to do some organizing this weekend and have a huge list of things to get at Kroger and Walgreens. I am hoping to use some of the tips Penny and Anita gave us last week at a great homeschool meeting where these wise ladies shared how they are saving money.

I will post some of my bargains. Be sure to check out Penny's blog( tupelodeals.blogspot.com)

She always has some great deals. I have also been going to some blogs from her blog list and finding some good info.