Happy Thanksgiving!
Here are some photos from our celebration at Grammy and PopPop's house.
GooseyGirl dressed up like Pocahontas' long lost wacky cousin.
BirdMan called dibs on the turkey leg and ate it King Henry VIII style.
And, RocketMan.... well.... I think the picture speaks for itself.
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Our family is enduring the transition of divorce right now. Some of my quilting friends decided to wrap my children and I up in love through a comfort quilt. My friend Jennie delivered it on Friday.
Women from all over the country and Canada made blocks with prayers and love stitched in each seam. They wrote encouragement and thoughts on each one as well. It was pieced by an amazing quilter in Canada and quilted by an award winning quilter in Kentucky.
The children were also given pilowcases with their names embroidered on them. Since they share most everything, they were thrilled to get a gift that is so personalized.
What treasure these wonderful friends have given us!
GooseyGirl has enjoyed our history lesson this week about Clovis. They learned about his importance in uniting the Kingdom of the Franks. We talked about how when everyone is the same religion, they tend to not fight as much. Here's her drawing of the Pope excited about all the new Catholics joining the church through Clovis's efforts.
The narration attached to the drawing reads, "Clovis united the Franks, Burgundians, Allemani and the Romans. Clovis made everyone Christians. He made Paris the capital. He made one law for everyone to follow."
We also talked about the patron saint of Paris, St. Genevieve. GooseyGirl promptly informed us that Madeline's dog was named Genevieve! 
Then she squealed that the Catholics must have really liked the Greeks. I didn't see the connection so I asked her to explain a bit. She told me that the Greeks had different gods to protect their cities, people, animals, etc. The Catholics have different saints that watch over things, people and animals too, except saints are mortal and Greek gods are immortal. I was impressed by her connection- she's 7 after all!
I love it when they teach me and I can see through their eyes for a moment.
RocketMan's Flat Stanely traveled all the way to Tokyo to hang out with Auntie Juliet and Uncle Ole. Take a look at his adventures with octopus tentacles and Richard Gere!
http://www.krarupdk.com/FlatStanley.html
Right now, the kidlets are focusing their history lessons on the early inhabitants of Australia, the Aborigines, and New Zealand, the Maori.
New Zealand was one of the last places on earth settled by humans. The Maori settled in New Zealand during the Middle Ages. What makes this history lesson even more fun is that we are hosting Flat Caroline this month who has traveled all the way from Christchurch, New Zealand to live with us for a bit! Talk about
making their lessons come alive. They are having fun learning about the topography and origins of Flat Caroline's country.
New Zealand's Maori warriors are well known for painting their faces and bodies to frighten enemies. The kids thought the internet pictures of Maori warriors were impressive and decided to try it themselves. Don't they look fierce?
Next up in history, they will be studying the Kingdom of the Franks. Look out Clovis, here they come!
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The kidlets came home with a bounty of candy goodies. RocketMan was a vampire, GooseyGirl was a cowgirl, BirdMan was Apollo, the Greek God, and Apollo the bird was...um.... a witch.
