God bless,
Dana
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Well, Margaret's due date was as miserable as expected, but surprisingly, the 10th (the day after her due date) was even worse. It was Thursday, so I had adoration in the morning, and I literally cried through at least half of my hour. Took me forever to get through my rosary. After adoration, a few friends invited Emma and I to their house for lunch and a play date. I'm afraid I wasn't very good company, but Emma had a great time, and it was nice to (somewhat) get my mind off of Margaret and my other 2 babies for a bit (for some reason, it was hitting me pretty hard that I was missing not only Margaret, but Charlotte and Michael too). Anyway, when we got home Thursday, there was a package on the front porch with Emma's new history curriculum in it (we had been using Seton's history, but it was just too heavy on the obscure saints and their personal stories and too light on actual history-history for me this year). It's called The Story of Civilization, which, if you've heard of The Story of the World, it's very similar, except without the anti-Catholic stuff. So, we started using it on Friday, and Emma almost didn't want to stop! It reads like a story, and every chapter has different crafts/snacks/science experiments/word searches/crosswords/coloring pages related to what you read about in the chapter! They only have the first book out right now, with plans to release the next book every summer, but it starts with pre-history civilization, and goes until Constantine. We're SUPER into it so far! We read the 1st 2 chapters, and Emma made her own clay tablet (with a clay recipe in the book), wrote hieroglyphics in the clay, with the extra clay, made a snowman with a pharaoh's hat, and then we also made her her own Narmer's crown out of foam poster board (he was the king of Upper Egypt that conquered the king of Lower Egypt, and wore both crowns as a sign that he was king of both). Interestingly, enough, Lower Egypt was actually to the north of Upper Egypt, but Upper Egypt has mountains/hills, where Lower Egypt does not, so if you look at a map, Lower Egypt is on top of Upper Egypt. Lol. :-) In other news, on Monday, Emma has to "be" Laura Ingalls Wilder (author of Little House on the Prairie books), and as of last night, her costume is FINISHED! She still needs to finish her poster and write her speech, but she'll look adorable no matter what she says for her presentation. :-) Pictures coming in a few days.
God bless, Dana
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