Montessori School – Musings from the Home

How was your week? Here are a few highlights from mine:

We’re back into another academic year. Two of our children are attending a Catholic Montessori School, three are being homeschooled, and the remaining toddler and baby are just. plain. busy. How do I get it all done?
With a lot of grace and a Good Schedule. I haven’t quite finished tweaking my new schedule, but when I do, I’ll put it out there for you glance at. Sometimes it helpful to see what other mothers are doing.
I saw my first weasel the other day. It was running across our backyard and made for a group of pine trees. The thing that really stood out was it’s black-tipped tail. I wish I could have snapped a picture of it.

Here’s a picture I found on Wikimedia Commons. Note the black-tipped tail. The one we saw was about as big as our cat, Strider.

4. My twin boys love serving the Traditional Latin Mass. Last Sunday I snapped a shot of them holding the torches during the Eucharistic Prayer. (I know, I know, I should have been praying and not grabbing my phone. But this just isn’t something one gets to see every day. In fact, most people never get to see a TLM around here.)

My boys are the two in the middle. The beautiful thing about this Mass is the amount of boys wanting to serve. You can’t see them, but there are three other servers kneeling in choir.

5. Our house finally sold! If everything goes well – inspection, etc. – we’ll be moving in October. We’re very excited about this, as we found a beautiful place to move to that will fit our large family and our large van. Miracle.

How was your week? Here are a few highlights from mine.

We enrolled two of our children in a Catholic, Montessori school for next year. (I’ll still be homeschooling three of the seven children.)
As this particular school is 30 minutes away, and we’re growing out of our house quite literally, we’ve decided to move. (This decision was not made in a week, but over the course of this last year.)
This is a terrible process – the buying and selling of houses. Keeping mine clean for showings? Ha!
Child #4 was playing outside the other day, and he noticed a car slowly driving by, checking our place out. This car drove by a few times, and this child decided that that was enough. So, he stuck his tongue out, put his hands up to his ears, and gave a little sass to the driver. The car didn’t drive by again. And didn’t buy our house either.
I have the best father-in-law in the world. He took the children fishing. The boys on one day. The girls the next. They had a blast, cruising up and down the Missouri River, catching walleye – 17 total. We love eating walleye, by the way.

The following paragraph is the caption for the above photo. This little girl is my talker. I asked her about this photo, and she’s still talking to me, right now. Even while I type this. She doesn’t quit!

Photo Caption:

“Mom, you should have seen what this fish looked like inside! It was all red and black and yellow and grayish. It didn’t feel gross, but slimy. Mom, you should have seen it’s teeth. They were really sharp. And I got to see sacks of eggs. They were redish and pinkish. Like birds. And Mom, you have to put little fish on your hook. Grandpa had to do mine, because I didn’t know how. But Mom, you have to have those little fish to catch a big fish. And I drank a Dr. Pepper – a whole can! And I dipped my toes in the river, but it was cold. Mom, do you know that your rod bends when you get a fish on it?”

The big girls with their catch. They were thankful that grandpa cut them up, even though he did make them help a little.

The three boys taking a break from fishing.

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