Friday Favorites: Shelter in Place Week #5

Ian and Alec officially finished up their school year this week. I honestly don't know how we finished this early since we never started our lessons until October but they completed all their books.  I have warned them I still expect them to read and to work on Duolingo but I sort of expect that year round anyway.

Evan came knocking on my door at 6:30 in the morning on Friday wanting to start school.  I told him to get started on math and I'd be down. We're fishing up the last book in his Key to Percents book; a series we just LOVE for middle school.  My boys don't often ask to work on their schooling but I love it when they do!

 Alec was finally feeling better and while he still stayed in bed and in his room all day he ate more, did get up long enough to take a shower, and we stripped and re-made his bed.  Ian headed out to work for the morning changing the oil in his grandmother's lawn mower. He came home with some donuts for everyone and then headed out to ride his 4 wheeler.  After lunch he headed out to work for the afternoon. I worked like crazy to finish up my latest book.

Ian headed off to work bright and early on Saturday and Alec and I set to work making a dessert for Easter.  We made this Brownie Cheesecake No-Bake from Marilyn's Treats.  It looked delicious (though we did add about a cup of Oreo bits to 1/2 the cheesecake for the top layer since we had so many left over from making our crust). I got so caught up in reading my newest book in it's entirety: In an Instant, that I didn't accomplish much of anything else!  Ian rode his four wheeler after working and I did run to the grocery store just to pick up fresh fruits and vegetables and other necessities like milk.

Easter morning (Sunday) both my husband and Ian headed off to work.  Alec and Evan started their day off by opening their Easter gifts ( I couldn't find our baskets).  After breakfast they headed outside for a bit.   I began reading a new book, did a few loads of laundry, and got our roast going in the crock pot.  Ian and my husband were home by lunch.  My mother in law stopped by just long enough to drop off some chocolate bunnies for the kids and then Ian and Ben left to go ride their four wheelers and dirt bikes.  We ended our night watching The Core; we really liked the movie but the graphics had us in stitches.

It was pouring Monday! The wind was shaking the house and the rain was falling sideways against the house in a way that ended up making many of our windows leak.  Thankfully we don't have storms like this often.  Ian finished a game of Monopoly he had started over the weekend and it really was the perfect day for a board game since we kept having our power go out.

We woke to sunny skies on Tuesday.  I convinced the boys to finish their schoolwork in record time so we could go on a hike/ walk.  It had been a full week since we had done that and I was missing it so much.  Since there were so many trees down everywhere we decided to just walk our land and do a trail sweep.  Well, it took forever as Ian used the chainsaw on tree after tree that had fallen.  We broke for lunch and then headed out to finish up. We got our second Misfit Markets box in and I set to work making parmesan crusted zucchini to go with our spaghetti dinner.

We finished our school day Wednesday with a quick round of bingo and I was so pleasantly surprised to find that my boys knew quite a bit about all the world monuments.

Ian finished up another chemistry experiment.  Even though he's done all of his bookwork I asked him to at least tackle one experiment a week since this box of chemicals was quite expensive. He learned a bit more about Boyle's Law.

The pressure from the books sends the water back down the stem of the pipette 

My mother in law picked up Alec and they headed out to get McDonald's take out for each of the boys lunch.  My kids have not eaten at a McDonald's in years and we had to look up their menu online so they could decide what they wanted.  After lunch we went for a walk to get the mail. The sun was shining even it was still quite chilly out. We saw a bluebird!

Thursday we began school by reading two more chapters in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (we're re-reading this series in it's entirety again).  The boys finished up their meager schoolwork and Evan and I headed out for a brisk walk in the snow flurries to drop some bills in the mail.  Once home all three boys did some cleaning and then after lunch Alec and I settled in to mix up some mango scones with lime glaze; a recipe we cobbled together for an upcoming recipe post.  They were delicious!!

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