Where did Summer go?

So this is our last week of summer here.....we are already back to school books. Which we have started slow with just math, wordly wise and LLATL.  I have one son that overwhelms easy so it is just best to take baby steps with him, he can sit for hours building anything out of anything or doing experiments. But that moment he thinks he is tied down to books, yicks totally unhappy.

 I am thinking of changing a few things around in the history and science area. I dont see a reason I cant work through Apologia general Science with my 7th grader and my younger children. Then after looking at Mystery of History I, looks like it might be a better choice for us I can us it with the multiple grades.

Going to go through the shelve and clean out the book we thought we might use.

Cleaning up Blog

I sure have been neglecting the blog world......today I sat down to read and catch up....so many blogs are gone...a few have gone private. Felicity not sure how to contact you, I missed that you were going private.
I have considered myself even a few times even considered just closing....but I do like coming here it is a corner just for me.

Was nice catching up and seeing how many lives have changed including mine.....I see how my blog post have dropped more and more then since we began homeschooling.

video of MAYS camp

MAYS Camp

This summer we attended 2 orchestra summer camps. Between the camps and my hospital stay I just realized I never posted our MAYS camp week.

My oldest sang with his friends as they preformed "Back in the USSR".

First day of camp 

Fun at the hotel after a day of camp 

Daddy took us out one night for a nice dinner..things we don't do normally...

 Everyone worked hard to finish school so they could have a summer vacation this year. 

http://www.maysymphony.org/MAYS_Summer_Camp.html

Last day preparing for the concert performance 

This my third born "Pooh Bear" he was in the hall waiting his turn

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My second born "Piglet"

Love this picture has my oldest "Tiger and Pooh Bear" together 

Pooh Bear brought his drum and he actually got to play it this made camp for him

This is the cello choir 

The Fiddle choir awesome have on video

We had a great time, relaxing....no laundry, no cooking...was nice to get up go down have breakfast before heading out to a wonderful day with awesome friends and music. 

Then come back to a clean room and swimming.....and relaxing...........was soooooooo much needed........

Aldi's shopping outcome

So a week has passed since I shopped at Aldi....So far it has not been liked in our home.
The quality of their food has been very disappointing. This time I have to agree with my husband, normally I feel he is just being to picky. We had their cheese filled raviolis they were just terrible, the filling tasted like a imitation powder. The potato chips my husband took one bit and asked me what I did.

The cheese there is good price and the quality is not bad at all.

The final decision is that between the drive to even get to Aldi's it is not worth it. I can do better with B1G1 at Walmart and have the quality and brands we like.

Shopped at Aldi

So yesterday I tried Aldi for our week of shopping. I did come out spending less but I also walked out with less.

Not sure how people shop there all the time......many items we don't eat. Then with a large family the meats are not packaged for family size. I would have to buy 2-3 packs for a dinner.

I did save on butter and tomato. Oh ice cream also. I feel I do better when I do B1G1 at Walmart.