A day of embroidering

My grandma Severson would be proud, I kept saying to myself this past weekend as the boys and I found ourselves inside most of the weekend because of the weather. So I got my grandmas old tin of embroidery thread out (she had hundreds of colors in this tin), and I was so excited when my oldest was actually enjoying this craft. We made 4 embroidery patterns that day, my oldest did two and I did two. It was so fun to see how well he had done. My youngest helped too, but he was not enjoying it as much as my oldest.

As you can see we were busy embroidering that day.

My house has projects of two quilts and embroidering projects all over, it is a busy Christmas sewing/embroidery season. 

My oldest first embroidery pattern, a fish!

My first embroidery pattern!

Working on a gift during school reading time. 

My youngest helped with these tree ornaments.

I have really enjoyed doing embroidery so far and I am so happy my boys have too, It makes me glad to know when they get older they will know how to sew up a hole in their sock. :)

We are working on more patterns, I will show them when we are finished.


The boys and I are especially thankful for daddy's one year of being sober, we celebrated by going out to eat with the people that helped us out through that time. It has been touching to see what God can do. 

We are wishing you a Merry Christmas!!

Hands on activities

 We have been busy doing hands on activities around here, which the boys love. Around Halloween we made homeade root beer with dry ice and the process was pretty neat. The root beer tasted great, but I got the clear root beer extract, oops.... It was still really good.

We also made homemade snowflakes to put on the windows and some of them my oldest cut out without a pattern, pretty creative,

 For math one day I got out the mini marshmallows and toothpicks to create geometrical shapes.

This was fun for the boys, I put whip cream on a baking sheet and had them write sight words that I would say. So they enjoyed eating the whip cream afterwards.

Matching sight words with string. Messy, but fun for awhile. 

I am always looking for hands on activities, because my boys learn more with them most of the time. I got some of these ideas from a you tube channel I watch and the lady also homeschools. I also get alot of my ideas on Pinterest. 

Meet my friend Elliot

Here is my friend Elliot the mouse. This is his home, a 1800s water pump, what a great home. He is very friendly. The first thing I did when we got there was knock on the water pump and a couple seconds later he popped his head out to say, Hello. I am sure there have been generations of mice that have lived here.

When we go on this particular walk he is my favorite part, the boys and I get so excited as we walk the mile to see him. We spent about a half hour with him this last time, it is so fun to see him poke his head out, we also gave him some snacks this time so now I'm sure he considers us good buddies.