First half of May

Schoolwork is winding down in May. Yay! But still we have a lot of math to do.

Matthew had to finish up his Language Arts program. It was his least favourite subject. Of all time.

Jennifer got her Math done pretty quickly, so she had more free time than everyone else. She usually is found near a book.

Trying to repair a motor.

More Math

A typical morning scene: some kids doing their math. Dad grinding coffee beans. We are so used to Dad working from home now that we are taking it for granted. Slow easy mornings. Fresh homemade coffee. Help or teasing with school work.

My kids are weird.

The sewing room was moved downstairs. Melanie worked very hard at cleaning up the mess from the former sewing room. It wasn't even all her mess. I helped her clean it.

Daniel, Jennifer and Evelyn volunteered to help a lady from church--she has three young grandchildren over once a week and without a child proof backyard, likes to have help watching them. She lives close enough to bike to, so my kids head over there for the afternoon and lend a hand.

I'm still around too.

Jennifer. With a book. Outside this time.

Jennifer practicing flute. It sounds quite nice when she practices. :)

We enjoyed a campfire one Sunday evening. Weather is sure getting nice now!

Some interesting planes fly by.

We conquered! The room is ready at last! Just in time--we have a house guest who moved in during May and used the room off and on until August. Evelyn is counting down until he moves out, since she is looking forward to taking over the room.

Melanie is planning on working full time this summer, for a landscape company. Starting during planting season in May. She has made a thank you gift to our neighbour for her first job, as well as for some riding lessons. The nieghbour also plans on putting her house on the market this summer too.

She is willing to take on Daniel and Jennifer as her workers, doing the poop-scooping every morning. Nathan and Matthew are also working for landscape companies and don't have time for cleaning out horse stalls.

Jennifer does not like the smell and dirty work--but it pays well, so she puts her effort in.

Daniel dumping his full load--they get a full wheelbarrow loaded from two stalls, or even from one! Horses sure are messy!

Also the water buckets get cleaned every day and refilled.

Evelyn helped me with some planting. My flowers grown from seed look so small this spring. But we know that they will keep growing, and soon they will fill the pot .