Advent day 11

Today we woke to Alfie the elf swinging from the children's bedroom door handle from a cute mini paper chain.

Id cut some patterned paper in to strips late last night, (think midnight...yawn!) as gypsies asked if she could make some.He must have been watching me and fancied a go.

Today advent activity was to deliver Christmas cards to our neighbours . Seemed like a bit of a long shot as id only written one and gypsies , Charlie were not intending on getting dressed.  But I sat and wrote them this morning and Jasmine delivered them this afternoon .

Summer spent a while making paper chains with Gypsies this afternoon and she also made a candle in a small glass from scraps of wax from tealights and some coloured bees wax.she also made some cute little Santa hats from strawberries dipped in white chocolate.

Jasmine has been give some duck eggs from my mum and dad and she put them to good use in a mickey mouse chocolate fudge cake.

My nesting instinct has had me cleaning down the hall and kitchen walls and skirting boards and i got a lot of help with that from Evie as she followed me closely with a spray bottle and cloth.

Xxx

A busy child lead day.

My goodness me what a busy day yesterday was. It was all child lead. There was DIY beauty products being made by summer. She had been watching u tube tutorials on her phone . She made lip balms, soap cakes, bath salts and all from ingredients she found in the kitchen cupboards ! There was candle making too. Summer melted down lots of old tea lights to make a large floating candle. She used a cookie cutter as a mold. It looks very pretty! Charlie and gypsies rolled beeswax candles. It was gypsies idea to make them and then Charlie came along behind her useing the scraps to make mini candles . He gifted one to Nannie . Gypsies also looked up maps of central America for her main lesson and summer finished her block on America with a page about the statue of liberty . Charlie did a 3D puzzle and has dismantled his teafoc bricks ready to begin a new project. Jasmine made some very lovely cupcakes .There were rose water ones for her brothers n sisters (no egg) and chocolate and orange ones for her to share with me and her dad. They taste fantastic! When Eva wasn't nursing she was drawing , Chalking and throwing bricks around. I myself was kept busy with the cutting down of nettles ,loading and unloading the dishwasher and washing machine constantly ,hoovering and happily praising my children for there efforts . Charlie had a nice surprise in the afternoon .My sister had spotted a kit in the charity shop.It has a variety of rubber band powered cars to build and Charlie and i were kept busy with that for a long time. Not that he really needed much help.He's playing with them now as type actually .so a pound well spent. Thank you auntie Hayley. There was also time for a few stories and cuddled and kisses too. been.

Last night i had a lovely phone conversation with a fellow home educator and genuinely lovely lady . It was great to chat with some one id got to know on line. Its a shame i called her because she had been upset but she reassured me that she was ok. We planned to have a bonfire also but i ended up putting it out because it was far to windy. Perhaps we will do it tonight. I wonder what today will bring . XXX