The day before Easter, my mother-in-law and her boyfriend came over and she organized the annual egg hunt for my boys. We ordered in pizza and jo-jo's and played Mexican Train. We had a fun and relaxed evening together just enjoying one another's company over a simple game.
On Easter morning, we attended church and then had an absolutely lovely lunch at Cracker Barrel. We even made it there before the big Easter lunch rush as our church service ended at 10:30. Cracker Barrel is one of our very favorite restaurants and the food and service were good as usual. I even treated myself to blackberry cobbler with ice cream!
When we got home, the children were eager to see what we had put into their Easter baskets this year. Mason was very happy to find a little plastic collectible figurine that he had wanted from E-bay.
Duncan received a Bop-It which he really wanted.
Amber, who is the hardest to buy for, received the Doodle Jump shirt that she wanted so badly. Yes, she enjoys playing Doodle Jump on her i-Pod Touch.
And, of course, they all received a little candy!
For those readers familiar with Fahrenheit 451, she chose to illustrate the scene in which Montag first shares a book with his wife. His wife reacts in fear and anger and is eager to get back to her true family, the wall-size television.
After returning from the Homeschool Conference, Amber promptly was struck with a very violent stomach flu which completely knocked her out for most of last week. She missed three days of school here at home and a full week of swim team. Thankfully, the stomach flu did not travel through our whole house, though.
While their clay projects are not completely done as they need to paint them when they are dry, I do think they turned out really well. My sons are used to working with Sculpey III, so this clay was quite different and more difficult with which to work. I purchased 
On the left side of the first two-page spread, is the drawing that my daughter completed of 
All of the mini-books on this two-page spread come from the Ancient Greece Project Pack from Hands of a Child.
Included on the left side are four mini-books: Ancient Greece World Impact, Philosophers, 4 types of government, and a mini-book contrasting a boy's life in Athens with a boy's life in Sparta.
On the right side are mini-books about Playwrights, Symposiums, City-States, and Drama.
On the left side, my daughter has fastened a 3-pronged folder filled with written assignments from the unit study. On the right side is a layered look book of our own creation about social structure in Ancient Athens, a mini-book about weddings in Ancient Greece (Ancient Greece History Pockets), and a 
Inside the 3-pronged folder are all of the independent writing assignments that my daughter completed during the unit study. She wrote paragraphs about:
Following those pages are the reading comprehension sheets that my daughter completed over the books by Rosemary Sutcliff, 
The layered look mini-book about Social Structure in Ancient Greece included information about slaves, metics, women, and free male citizens. I wrote more about writing in this mini-book with my children 
On the back of the classification folder is the sign and advertisement that my daughter made for her fictional booth at the Ancient Greek Agora.
I spend a lot of time at my little work area in our bedroom. While I sometimes spend too much time on the computer doing non-essential tasks, most of my computer time is spent doing the work that helps our homeschool and family business run smoothly. I also treasure the time I spend writing for my blog, 
Here is the view of the sun (barn) from Pluto - 3.7 billion miles from the sun!
After this Interplanetary Hike, I think all of us have a better understanding of the relative distance of the planets from each other and the sun.
