April 21st-27th

I have a feeling,

due to "end of the year" craziness,

my weekly wrap-up posts are gonna be later than normal

over the next few weeks...

Better late than never, right?  ;0)

Anyways,

onto the week...

Saturday the kiddos and I

(plus a couple of friends)

spent the morning searching our 

Neighborhood Yard Sale

 for junk treasures.

(This is the reason we cannot park in our garage-

I have a children's book addiction!) 

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Sunday was the usual

crazy pace,

with worship team practice,

teaching Sunday School,

taking the girls to dance practice,

going home,

back to church for His Kids practice...

Oh-wait!

My husband and I got to spend lunch-

ALONE-

while the girls were at dance and 

Little Wild Man had gone home with a buddy

after church.

That little lunch date did break up

the pace a bit...

*SIGH*

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Monday through Friday

we did school,

including:

*Learning about the layers of the

Earth with play dough

(I will post about this later...)

*Reading through

"The King of Prussia and a Peanut Butter Sandwich"

during lunch one day

*Little Wild Man began working on

Time in his Math-U-See Curriculum

*Little Wild Man also greatly enjoyed

working through some of the activities in

Homeschool Creations'

Star Wars Preschool Pack-

SO FUN!!!

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This week was also CHOCK FULL of

birthday fun!

On Tuesday,
we went to a close friend's
Bounce House Birthday Bash

after dance practice...

On Wednesday,

I F-I-N-A-L-L-Y mailed off

birthday cards and presents

to several family members,

so the kiddos spent  a few minutes 

in the morning signing lots of birthday cards...

This leads us to Thursday,

which was

Jungle Girl's 10th Birthday!!!

I cannot believe I am a parent to a kiddo

in double digits...

Wow.

We celebrated with simple decor

and little treats throughout the day.

Her family birthday party was this past Saturday,

and she will be celebrating with her friends at an

Art Party later in May.

(Double digits are a big milestone, ya know?)

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To finish off our week,

Nana and Papa came down for a visit!

They live about 6 hours north of us,

so it is always special for the kiddos

when they come and have

slumber parties in the living room...

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I am BRACING myself for the next two weeks.

We have the last EVER 

"His Kids" performance at church 

Sunday, May 6th.

(I am the assistant director of this children's choir

and two of my three kiddos are in it.)

It will be an emotional performance,

since the volunteer director of this choir

is officially "retiring."

Miss Carol has leading these performances

for over 20 years-

she deserves a good rest!

After that performance is over,

the girls and I will be gearing up for 

"Dance-o-palooza 2012,"

in which they will perform 5 times

in 3 nights, May 10th-12th.

I am HOPING to start "closing up"

some school subjects during this craziness,

but I know full and well we will be 

schooling into June,

and doing some academics throughout

our Summer "break."

Bring it on May Madness,

BRING-IT-ON!!!

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I will be linking this post up at

Collage Friday,

Week in Review,

and the

Weekly Wrap-Up...