I’m mom of a birthday boy this week.
Surprised him with coffee alongside his choice of eggs and venison sausage for breakfast.
He requested alligator at Prejean’s for lunch, so we went and they celebrated him too. 🎇
After baseball practice, we had pancakes and more sausage (by request) + gifts.
It was a beautiful, moody morning.
More Recent Thrift Finds
I’ve finally been going through a box of stuff I’ve collected over the past 3-ish weeks and cleaning and washing things and putting them away. And I’ve decided I like documenting what I’ve found. It also looks pretty all together on my Pinterest board. 😊
These 3 items were from 3 different places. And cities, actually. Paid approx $4 total.
The basket is for who knows what. Might use it to hold some photo albums or Chatbooks. Might use it for gifting. Endless options.
I think I’ll really use the sun tea jar for sun tea. I’ve wanted to try it for a while. It’s such a happy looking jar.
My first thought with the spice cabinet was to remove the door and use it as art (I LOVE the font of the words, Herbs & Spices) and use the shelf part as an open wall shelf for one of the kids’ rocks or other curiosities. Or maybe Lego people.
Ready to go help Daddy with a project across the yard this afternoon. 👷♀️🔨🤍
Setting a timer and sitting down to do this. Giving myself 15 minutes. 🧩
Thrift finds from last week: (Paid $2.43 for everything)
An old 2-hole punch because they look cool and the kids will have fun with it
A bowl for water for the cat
A saucer to use under a potted plant
An unopened set of stationary with pretty bird art…might frame one and use the rest
Co-op This Week | Subject: Olmecs (Ancient Civilizations)
Yesterday was our co-op day. We’ve been studying Ancient Civilizations this semester. Our focus this week was the Olmecs.
If you are not familiar with this group of people, they were an ancient Mesoamerican civilization believed to have thrived along the Mexican Gulf Coast from approximately 1200 to 400 B.C.
Our co-op is small-ish. Nine families. Eleven kids, ages 5-12. Five of the moms rotate lessons for the semester. Most lessons consist of several rounds of sharing information pertinent to the day’s topic and breaking between each sharing session to do a related activity.
This was not my week to teach, but I wanted to share my kids’ work, perhaps as inspiration, and definitely as a keepsake for myself to look back on here.
The first project of the day was making stone heads out of air dry clay, which was representative of the giant stone heads the Olmecs were known for creating. The kids were shown several photos as inspiration and given toothpicks and popsicle sticks to use to carve and shape.
She was so proud of the helmet.
Hers and his. He was slightly less enthused with the project, thus putting much less time and energy into it. But he still did it and knew what it represented.
The second project was patiently wrapping rubber bands around a wadded up piece of paper to make a bouncy ball. They used the small rainbow loom bands. This activity was meant to correspond with learning that the Olmecs were the first known civilization to use rubber.
The last project for the day was constructing a pyramid with homemade Rice Krispie treats and vanilla buttercream icing (so, so yum…our resident baker was the teacher, which is always exciting 😋). This was a nod to the Olmecs building pyramids or pyramid-like structures like most other ancient groups of people.
His. I took a photo of hers–which was wider and flatter than her brother’s–but some of the other kids were in the background, and I wanted to respect their privacy so chose not to post.
The Olmec lesson may sound somewhat simple, but doing projects with 11 kids can take up a big chunk of time. And some lessons are shorter or less involved than others. It’s so wonderful that each week is similarly structured, yet approached from a different mind. And we’re always encouraged to dive deeper into each topic.
Next week is my second lesson to teach for the semester. I’ve been excited about it since watching the Sight & Sound Theatre’s “Daniel” last month when it was in theaters on Labor Day weekend. So much to unpack and learn.
Went outside around 8pm a couple of nights ago to see if we could see any meteors (Draconid meteor shower). I came back in 20 or so mins later having seen three 💫 and with approx. 20 mosquito bites. Still worth it.
3 of us have also been doing a lot of baseball watching, while 1 does the playing. ⚾️🤍
Been doing a LOT of thrifting, though. And that’s been a real fun outlet. One of my favorites when there’s time, actually.
It’s been a weirdly busy, but not bad season that feels nothing like Fall at all.
Back to baseball for a couple months 😊⚾️🧢
Testing out his creation
A few thrift finds from this week:
A book ($1) titled, “Glorious Flowers,” that’s packed with beautiful art of various flowers…aiming to frame them
A set of measuring cups ($1) for a new project
A Boska cheese grater ($0.12)
A silver spoon ($0.12)
And a pretty little glass vase ($1)
Been thinking I might write a detailed-ish description of our trip to Atlanta a couple of weeks ago. But, so far, I only have a title typed out. So, in case I never get to it, I’m gonna post snippets here and there for me to look back on.
Jellyfish at the Georgia Aquarium 🪼
Last Sunday in August 🩷🧡💛🩵💜
