Weekly Wrap Up - Welcome December

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving!  For those of you who weren't around last week, I did do a Thanksgiving Week Wrap Up, and I also shared about Interest Led Learning - Quilting.   Take a moment to check those out if you have time.

On Saturday, my best friend Donna and her husband Mike drove our from the city to spend the day with us.   We have an amazing downtown area, that Mike said is "Like walking through a Hallmark movie."    Here's a photo of the husbands sitting at an outdoor cafe, waiting patiently for the return of the shoppers,.  The black and white makes it look a bit grainy, but it's a good depiction of "walking through a Hallmark movie".

This was our first full 5-day school week since breaking from co-op for the holidays.  It was good to have that full day back to knock out extra work (especially in Algebra 2).  Monday evening was our towns Christmas parade and also Olivia's basketball practice.  Tom and Lindsey went to the parade, I took Olivia to the parade.  It's the first time she and I have missed the parade since we've lived here.  Growing up is hard in many ways.

Tuesday and Wednesday were pretty typical days with school work during the day and basketball/church in the evening.

Thursday, Lindsey finished up her book study of The Hobbit, and had her final exam.   She found out that she really liked Tolkien a great deal more that she'd expected.   She's  using this book as her literature project for co-op.  She'll be working on a display to present in January, I'll update you when she's done.    Olivia had basketball practice from 8pm-9pm.   I'm not a fan of these really late practice schedules at this age.

Friday (today) we'll plow through some extra school work (yippie for 5 full days), then head out to get groceries, home for dinner and then back out to basketball at 5pm.

Lastly, as a part of the TOS Review Crew this year, I've had the opportunity to review some amazing products.   In addition to reviewing, we also get to vote for our favorites, and The 2017 Homeschool Review Crew Blue Ribbon Awards winners were announced recently, so click on the link to check out who won what.

Have a great weekend!

Linking up with the Weekly Wrap Up, Homeschool Highlights and a few other places.