November Homeschool Miscellany
November had to be cruisy after the insanity of October, plus we usually start winding down about now anyway. We stayed home a lot.
We weren't completely lazy. The boys played with the snap circuits, @gorc mostly building his own. @shadowlioncub experimenting with food (in the picture he was doing arty things with strawberries and cream before consuming them), and @pixietrix was mostly experimenting with and learning about makeup (and spending a lot of money on it).
We also spent a bit of time with the in-laws and the toddler cousin, hitting the beach (and teaching water safety like how to spot rips and how waves work, probably not much of which has stuck because he's a toddler) and taking them to Latitude (which the toddler thoroughly enjoyed, gave poor Nanna a bit of a workout though!).
The rest of the time was spent preparing for end of year shenanigans being held in the form of the gymnastics end of year display and a slightly more intense dance concert and going to Christmas Island. @pixietrix also had to come to terms with rehoming her guinea pig (something which she dealt with very maturely, including finding a bright side of at least not having to clean the cage anymore which was nobody's favourite chore) as they are herd animals and he was going a bit crazy on his own, and we were having an inordinate amount of trouble finding a similar aged companion for him (mostly because I refuse to get pets on Gumtree now). He has moved in with friends' guinea pigs (had to get ours desexed because they have girls) though so we'll be able to visit "at least once a fortnight" as requested by @pixietrix.
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Ahhh good for your daughter to be able to make such hard decision about her pet. You have put so much thought about it, finding the right age companion, not buying from gumtree, etc etc, I can only applaud you for doing it the best you can. I hope it will be happy at the new place :D.
Yeh after learning about puppy and kitten mills ages ago we decided no more pet shops. Then after some dodgy Gumtree experience we decided no more Gumtree pets (though we get many other things off Gumtree XD). Just rescue and breeders from now on.
She had to think about it pretty hard and initially she didn't want to rehome him but eventually decided it would be best for him, I'm quite proud of her :) (well I'm proud of her all the time so more proud than usual I guess XD). The guinea pig is doing very well at his new home, he's lost some weight (he stacked it on a bit as all he was doing was eating and sleeping on his own poor thing, guess he was depressed :<) and is getting on very well with his new girlfriends :)
It seems the time was well spent!
I like to pretend most of our time is ;D
I think so too!
The calm before the storm, so to speak. At least you guys had a breather before the craziness of le silly season. I chuckled when you snuck in how much Pixie's spending on her makeup. Me thinks I get the feeling that's rooted to deeper emotions hmmmmmmmm...mmmmmmmmmm..ah!
She actually wanted to be a makeup artist at one stage, not sure if that's still the case though she bangs on about palettes and things enough to make me think so XD
Just checking in to say hey! Nice to see what your family is doing. I’ll try not to be so absent on steemit even if I’m over there more! As long as you guys aren’t here anyways