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Fraterday

Today is the day that the kids and I call Fraterday.  It normally doesn't start until the afternoon, when school is mostly over.  It is the official start to our weekend.  We walk around the house singing that "it's fraterday, fraterday" like lunatics.  We had a lot of fun today too.  My middle son 9, is studying Copernicus, and we made a 3d solar system based on the one Copernicus discovered.  We got different size styrofoam balls and painted them to look like the sun, moon and the first 6 planets.  Younger son 6 and daughter 4 helped with this.  Then we took a piece of black poster board and made the orbits with glitter glue going around a spot we made in the middle for the sun.  We also made an extra orbit around the spot where the earth will be.  Next we unfolded a paper clip slightly, poked one side into a planet and strung the other side with fishing line. This we stuck through the poster board along the orbit that related to the planet on the other end of the line and strung it through a button that will hold it to the back of the poster board. We are going to use some ceiling hooks and hang the universe over my sons bed. 

After we worked on the project I took dd4 and we went major grocery shopping.  I can't believe how exausting it is to shop.  Then you get to look forward to putting everything away, which also takes forever.  At least I didn't have to worry about dinner.  Friday nights my husband lets me order out or pick up.  I won't order out on any other day for lunch or dinner.  We made this deal years ago and it actually saves us money, and makes my fraterday that much better.  I know that I don't have to stress about what we are going to eat, cook anything, but the major plus is that the kitchen stays clean from morning until the next morning.

I have checked out just about every book on homesteading that the libraries have in my area, and have been reading voraciously.  One of them I realized that I have already read at some point, years ago.  I am using everything that I can in my house in the suburbs.  But I do still dream about chickens.  I am sure they would pay for themselves, just in the about of eggs we go through.  It is easily 18 if not 24 a week with all of the baking that I do.  I LOVE to bake, I love to eat what I bake, however I don't love how I LOOK when I eat what I bake.  So I am very good at giving things to neighbors, or making cookies and stuff when my kids have friends over.  Everyone goes home with something.  Well, I think I will go read some more.  Have a great weekend.

Nicki

We love to bake here too!

11:25, Friday, May 4, 2007 .. Posted by FruitfulVineof7SoFar

Thank you for your comment about Lucy's name.

We hope to get chickend too. Having Lucy and all the other things we are doing has kinda' held us up - we need to put up a few things to have a good place for them!

Fraterday sounds fun.

Blessings!
Jacque