Spider Studies

Continuing our spider study, we decided to make a spider egg sac. We used beads for spider eggs. We put the "eggs" into a balloon and blew it up.

We wrapped the balloon with yarn as our spider silk.

We mixed a glue wash.

covered the sac with glue wash

and waited days for it to dry

When it was finally dry, Princess popped the balloon with a pin.

It worked!

If you look closely, you can see one of the "spider eggs" inside the "egg sac".

Pretty cool project, huh? I love homeschooling!

A Princess for the Princess

We started with a pile of hair...

a bin of markers...

some felt, a wood ball and wood candlestick.

We drew details...

and dressed her with all the accessories.

Now we have a princess for the Princess!

The maid? Really?

After a frustrating morning yesterday, I emailed the Lizard King to vent.

Our daughter is going to send me over the edge. We have been arguing constantly. She is playing on the drum table by the slider. The dog wanted to go out. I was in the kitchen cleaning up. She asked me to let the dog out. I was about to take all the recyclables to the garage. I told her that if she took care of the recyclables, I'd let the dog out. She actually agreed. I let the dog out. She then complained that she felt like the maid. There was too much stuff. I told her that perhaps next time she can simply let the dog out. Then she left the stuff on the counter for me to take out and told me that the dog was already out.

His response? "My entire area of coworkers is laughing hysterically."

First I thought, I'm so glad to be here for entertainment value...then I thought, hey, maybe this would make a good blog post! ; )

Camping Weekend

This is the only photo I have of the camping trip. We spent the weekend in a yurt. LK, who knows us well, refused to camp in a tent with us. I don't blame him. Camping is fun, but I'm not very good at roughing it. Next year we plan to buy a motor home. Then I'll be ready...of course there are many who don't call that camping, but whatever!

The Lizard King, the Princess and I enjoyed our time together and our time with friends. We ended up leaving Saturday early morning rather than Sunday afternoon. We wanted to have some time alone, just the three of us.

The weekend went way too fast and we're having a bit of a challenge settling back in to our routine. We miss him. Our schedule is busy so I'm sure we'll be fine in no time.

He's Home!

The Lizard King landed late last night. It was a late night, but a good one. We're hanging out this morning and leaving for a camping trip (Princess and my first camping trip) this afternoon. It is amazing to be together again.

Ta-ta for now dear bloggy friends. I shall return on Monday.