Busy, Busy, Busy

What a busy week! On Friday we enjoyed the Olive Garden at home in honor of learning about Italy all week!
View our Italy Pinterest Board here.

Henry has discovered this week that he really loves spaghetti and meatballs and Grandpa enjoyed his traditional Tour of Italy! The egg plant parmigiana was one of the best things that I have ever eaten!

My dad and the boys surprised me on Saturday morning with a dozen yellow roses and truffles for Mother's Day! It was so sweet! I love them so much! I am so blessed to have them!

We needed to do our Zoology lesson with The American Heritage Family School on Saturday and it was wonderful!

We love The American Heritage Family School so much! We even found a worm in our driveway and watched The Lion King! (The new, live action version!) They painted tigers and they used their Rain Forest Cafe cups! It was an animal-filled day!

Friday was college day at our house so they wore the t-shirt for their favorite university. We also discovered a second family of baby ducks while we were at the lake! The baby ducks are already getting so big! After just one week!

I read this article about Ahmaud Arbery. I hope as a mother I can teach my children to be kind to everyone no matter their skin color, religion, socioeconomic status, etc. My parents instilled this in me and I am so grateful to them for that. I hope and pray that we all learn something from this. I am heartbroken for his family and friends. I started a Pinterest Board to help parents educate their children against racism. You can see it here.

I also freshened up my Pinterest Board that I created for my youngest child's second birthday party! You can see it here!

We tried Hello Bible for the first time on Sunday and loved it!

I am always looking for Sabbath day learning activities for my little boys and this is wonderful! It comes with two craft activities so we can do it twice a month!

This is such a wonderful way to learn a gospel lesson as a family! And the boys have really enjoyed collecting coins this week for their new wooden bank to donate to our church's humanitarian aid fund! You can learn more about church's humanitarian aid work here!

Subscribe to Hello Bible here!

Hello Bible also donates to the Kilgoris Project. Learn more about the Kilgoris Project here.

On Monday, we went on a Nature Scavenger Hunt with our Nature Notebooks from The Good and the Beautiful! It was suppose to just be a Nature Bingo activity, but we decided to find every item on the page! We love nature!

On Mondays, we bake treats for Family Home Evening. This is our baking lesson for the week! This Monday I taught them how to bake my favorite chocolate cake. It is a chocolate-covered cherry cake that my Grandma Francis taught me how to make.

In my chocolate-loving opinion, this is the best chocolate cake that you will ever eat and so easy to make! You can find the recipe here!

I also started looking for more creative ideas for our morning Come Follow Me Study. We have a 30 minute lesson every morning. I discovered Latter Day Kids and I absolutely love them! We will be doing their lessons twice a week! I also started a Pinterest Board of Come Follow Me study ideas. You can view it here!

Whew!

I told you that we were busy this week! And that isn't even everything! There will be more tomorrow! I will do better next week about more, shorter posts instead of one, long one!

Happy Homeschooling!