Cribbage

18 March 2012

Today we attended church, (a little late I admit but we made it!) and spent some time relaxing at home. We had such a busy week last week that we decided to take it easy today. Around 1:00p.m. my mother called and asked her and my father could stop by for a visit. They were up in the area for a missionary farewell for one of my cousins.

The kids were extremely excited as usual when we have company. We live about an hour away from most of our family so we don't get visitors often. The kids had so much fun showing off all they have been doing and learning in our homeschool efforts and Grandma Debbie and Grandpa Mike enjoyed hearing all about it. Ra showed off her skip counting prowess, beautiful cursive and all of the fun crafts we did for the various holidays.

When we were in Hurricane Papa Glen and Nana Lori showed the hubby and I how to play cribbage. It is so chalk full of math that I decided to use it at home. I have heard that card games, dice games and board games are some of the best ways to learn math, so why not give it a try.

I asked my parents if they have ever played cribbage and they said no. So I decided to use that moment to not only show my parents how to play, but Ra as well. Ra loved it and though Grandpa Mike was a little distracted by Puss in Boots on the TV, I think my parents enjoyed it too. Grandpa Mike told me that he is really good at math, something I have probably always taken for granted in my father until now. He said that the only thing that messes him up in math is a calculator! Ha! See! That is how proficient I want my kids to be, and myself of course, because I am no where near that.

After a healthy dinner we read some of the Old Testament Stories before I shooed the kids off to bed.

Getting Caught Up Again

15 March 2012

When we got home this morning my kids begged I turn on the computers first thing since they didn't get computer day on Tuesday because we were at a friend's house all day. I let the kids play for most of the day. They did help me around the house a bit still and went outside and played as well. It was a really warm day today. Even after the sun had gone down it was still 78 degrees inside my house. 

I managed to get most of the laundry washed and dried and hope to have it all washed and dried by the time I go to bed tonight. I read some of Valley Forge by Newt Gingrich and William R Forstchen. Unfortunately exhaustion overcame me and I decided it would be a good time to take a nap since Em was asleep as well. Of course when Em woke up I wasn't ready to! Oh well, such is life.

I wrote some outlines for the next post on Inspiration In Learning ( my ah-ha blog). I probably wont get around to writing it tonight, but hopefully tomorrow night. At bedtime I read two chapters of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Ra decided to read from our Old Testament Stories picture book. She read the story of Joseph in Egypt.