Bow Lesson:
Dylan giving Hudson a lesson on his Bow.
So cute.
Good teacher.
Wednesday, August 25, 2021
Good Times
Boys at Middles.
They are charging bigger waves than I want! It was a matter of time.
Dylan then Hudson in the video.
Mr. Music Guy. Always amazes me with his beats and music talent.
Glow night at the trampoline park and sleepover with a friend.
Ice CREAM!!!
These cats
Who runs this house? It is a battle of reminder to take control and your power back. Even if it is from a cat! haha. These creatures I left at home while we were gone and had our pet sitter come in daily. Well, we will not do that again!! They decided they would rebel towards a clean freak! Yep, I came home to a mess of nastiness! My cat journey has taught me that cats can be destructive if they are not getting what they want, have an attitude, like to rule, and will battle you for the totem pole. We tend to clash until I slow down and remember that I love them and they do give me affection in the ways they want. I just have to force myself to sit and pet them. They feel everything and do want to be near us and are asking us to stop and pet them without really asking.
They are a reflection of me. HAHA!
Not sure how they get free rent and food.
Waiting for food.
We have started letting Bella outside since she has been so naughty! It has been a huge relief, however, now we have to watch her since she is deaf. She likes to follow us to our car and tries to get in then gets under our cars. Makes it a challenge when we go to leave.
Readers
I came in the room and found them like this....
So cute!
Then Dylan joined. These boys love to read.
Hudson checking out The NY Times Kid section Babi gave us.
Wednesday, August 11, 2021
School Starts 2021
Here we go again...cheers to another year of learning together.
I am already learning so much and it is day 2!
A reminder to consider their learning styles, be patient, watch my expectations, constant adjustment and change, remember to keep it fun, and they are just kids.
WOW, who is the student??
"When the student is ready, the teacher appears."
School 2021-2022 Year.
Homeschool
Dylan 5th grade.
Hudson 4th grade.
School Year 2021-2022
Aug 9th - May 27 (41 weeks)
Year Goals:
8-12 routine with freetime for nature and creativity
Bring Dylan to 6th and Hudson to 5th grade by May
Complete standardized test with confidence
Use workbooks to cover and understand grade core standards
Subjects - Lang & Lit, Writing, Math, History/Geo, Science,
Specials - Computer/Coding, Social, Art, Music, other interests
Goal oriented learning - skills, interests, creative, weekly and long term goals
Keep up with our family mission, expectations, goals and inappropriate behavior
Dylan - wants to be good at coding, reading, conversation in latin, improve math, likes latin, social, history, and writing is favorite
Hudson - improve reading, writing, and song writing, learn pre algebra, likes coding, science, inventions
Improve their spelling, penmanship and writing
Be neat, organized, quality work and use of time
8-12 Daily Checklist:
Workbook - Flash Kids - Aug - Dec, test prep Feb, Brain Quest Jan - May - 10min/subject
Read Alouds - Boys Read, Mom Reads
GNK - 5th Grader Needs to Know - 5 pages/week,
Middle Ages Story of the World - 2 chapters/week
Library Books
Other - work on skills & goals
Outschool/Classes
Other Reading and Math Skills, Comprehension, Fundamentals Workbooks
Mystery Science, documentaries, online methods, youtube
Read - 20 min - Chapter, Read Alouds, Audibles
Music Practice - 5 min skill
Creative - 20 min
Coding/Tech Time - 30 min - typing, coding, researching
Responsibility - teeth, bed, ocean, exercise, chore, gratitude, something nice
Reward - Appropriate behavior - audible, curiosity stream, educational website, coding, games, fun friday. Smartwork = Allowance $10 ($2/day workweek)
Excuma Bahamas Trip Journal
Thank you sooooo very much to Peepaw, Babi, Gramps, and Grammie for an AMAZING trip!
We are so grateful to be able to share our adventures with our families as a whole. We will forever remember these moments and how special they were to us. They touch us all in ways that change us forever. The boys are lucky to have these memories for life.
We miss you and excited to see you soon.
This is my trip journal (notes to myself) so I can remember our adventures.
Bahamas Excuma Adventure
❤️❤️❤️Nassau and South through the Excumas.
❤️coffee outside
❤️warm water
❤️swimming, water workouts, flips, handstands
❤️cooking dinners
❤️dinner outside-gratitude, conversations
❤️being in swimsuit, getting in water throughout the day
❤️reading outside before bed
😻dylan correcting my reading
😻hudson wanting to swim handstands and flip with me
😻Have a vacation day to unplug and vacation weekend one time a month-do something different
😻People on inside and crowded do my water workout and swim
Travels:
July 27-maui to lax, flight canceled so had to stay night at Sheraton, thankfully in lounge to get help and hotel from good attendant then had supervisor helping, didn’t get to sleep until 3am, slept till 9, Whole Foods, toy store, scooter store, relax in hotel until airport that night. Didn’t get first class. When went back to lounge they helped us again and we were on priority and got it at the end! Had to reroute to Charlotte. Didn’t get first class then either until finally boys and i did. Got to Nassau finally July 29. Immigration was packed! Ton of people, huge line! Finally got through. Took town car. Boys didn’t sleep on plane, got 4 hours. Boat, fun hanging out, unpacking. Dinner. Then walked to ice cream on beach with pool. Way overpriced.
Stay night in marina to head out to the Excumas!
Day 1-July 30:
coffee, hang out, grocery store, head out of marina to between Leaf and Allen cay, stayed night. Swam with justin, got stuck in current so didn’t make it to iguanas with everyone. Found a ton of sand dollars and shells!! Swam around. Spaghetti, beyond meat, spinach, mushrooms, salad.
Day2- July 31:
morning swim saw cuddle fish, beautiful reef, went to iguanas, scared didn’t get out. Swam a little more. After lunch headed to highbourne cay. Great shells. Boys went dinghy ride for ice but no ice. Dinner-potatoes,sweet potatoes, salad, mushrooms,zucchini,beyond burgers. Justin saved baby octopus then justin and mark swam mark doing backstroke and straight towards nurse shark, justin went to circle after it and it started circling justin, stayed night
“Did you know you gave birth to a magnificent son?”-dylan, 10 to Babi
Babi advice-few house rules, simple, most important and stick to them. We don’t do that, it’s a house rule. I don’t like when..it’s a house rule. Positive point out. That’s great, family first. Kids come over and that’s are rule. Justin we don’t talk to mom that way.
Day 3- aug 1:
Harbourne cay snorkeled along rocks, found amazing shells, swam around to see 6 foot nurse shark. Tried get ice at marina and only for people in marina. Robbie and I laughing about wanting to say we were on a big yatch, left sat on front trampoline and enjoyed the sun, came to normans cay. Swam around saw starfish, playing with them and thanking them. Tired low key night. Seeing all the yatchs, thinking that is what want. Really want freedom. That is more stuff, more crew, more headache. Small, simple, adventure with family is want with power to be kind and help the world as a family and freedom to do what want, could have if wanted
Quality not quantity!
Day 4-Aug 2:
woke up at Norman’s cay to lightening and thunder. Left went to shroud cay to see mangroves. Adventure with the boys. Wading in water as a workout. Overcast and thundering. Then left to go to….
Reading-
Love and accept everyone like mollie
Power of kindness
Don’t let someone rent space in your head
Anger frustration is someone suffering and your karma. Kill it with kindness or the opposite
Be good to someone
Buddha-not letting people or things affect your mood, love everyone, freedom from emotional suffering is desire not happiness
Love and helping people reason get out of bed everyday, tell others how much care about them and hug and tell kids love them every chance can
Kid excited to go off on own with a task felt like big kid
It’s ok. I know you tried your best and that’s all that matters-try your best and everything will be ok
Love and accept everyone, feed one piece food at time, notice dogs nose
Turn suffer to joy
Day 4 cont-
Warderick wells cay, land and sea park. Anchored, took dinghy to rock and went around it and saw a cave indention. Then went to rock near it and both places saw groupers. Ton of fish on the rock. Dinner -salad, sweet potatoes with vegan butter and salt and broc and cauliflower with n yeast and beyond sausages in half on buns. Dessert dates with peanut butter and chocolate and strawberries. Hudson Gramps and Justin went to scooter back to the rock. Dylan listen to story and doing puzzle. Then he took Robbie Grammie and i over there and gave me a lesson in dinghy. Then the girls went to beach to walk. No see ums bad! Soft feathery sand. Left and went back to check on boys then back to boat. Dinghy was a challenge to drive-backwards to steer, forward, gas it kill it haha.
Hudson bonded with a grouper and was able to touch it.
Day 5-aug 3
Coffee is so good! Worked out the yoga on the deck. Went swimming again to Hudson’s rock looking for his grouper but didn’t see him. Left and went to compass cay for gas, water and ice.They charge $10 person so we decided to pass. Docking was fun. Mark was going fast towards dock and scared us all. He did great though being on stage with pressure of hitting dock, boats and people. Turns out the dock hand had the rope too tight and Mark knew what he was doing. Shrimp boat coming in and staring at us. My favorite boat was at the harbor. Restored yacht. Left came to pike cay. Wow!! So pretty! Swam with hudson to the white sand beach that was a private beach. We love doing handstands and flips in the water together.. Then played with the ScubaJet. Paddle boarded. White sand, color of the water!! Love different colors of the water. Dinner quinoa rice black bean whole wheat tacos with salsa, cream corn, cumin, salt, vegan butter with salad & guac
Dessert-cookies,peanut butter dates, chocolate
Watched sunset and took pictures with the amazing backdrop. Hung out, played games, colored with popcorn
Babi,don’t stress it. While playing game -hudson, 9 and being emotional slamming door and locking it.
Day 6-aug 4th
Didn’t sleep well because dinghy was banging all night against the boat and flaps of sun shades. Woke up early and then coffee. Went over to the sand bank and worked out. Was in heaven!!!! Seriously died and went to heaven. I love doing water workouts and wading in the water. The colors with the sand and warm water and sun! ❤️lunch, little rain shower. Then headed to staniel cay. Swam around with boys by boat while men went for ice and to get scoop about covid test. A 5 foot nurse shark came up to boat. Curious about the bucket. Went to see the pigs. They liked the stinky food. Then ate dinner and swam around boat, paddle boarded with mom to the rocks. Swam around the rock line to cave and back. Paddled with mom. Hung out popcorn then bed. Dinner-chickpea pasta, chickpeas with balsamic vinaigrette dressing, cherry tomatoes then added the cooked veggies- garlic, olive oil, salt, yeast, carrots, zucchini, mushrooms, spinach-fresh to frozen
Creativity-workouts, cooking, homeschool, organization
Good breeze
Oculus
Bella contessa
Morgan
Day 7-aug 5
Staniel cay. Woke coffee took dinghy to get ice at marina with mark justin and boys. Then went back for covid test. All negative. Then took dinghy to Gurado cave from James Bond. Beautiful, swam through cave to huge opening and beautiful reef. Lots of people. Then started to head back. Left and headed to highbourne cay. Burgers mash potatoes salad while under way. When arrived late night and got smooth. Snorkeled around boat and paddle boarded for sunset. Super fun! Laughs got on board with snorkel gear. Boys pulling me around.
Day 8-aug 6
Woke up coffee then snorkel from dinghy just a bit off the boat. Best snorkel! Kept picking up the same white clam shell. Big grey black angel fish and the blue yellow with bright blue. Big lion fish. Left and heading back to marina. Swimming for exercise. Love diving down, making resistance and workout. Workout in the boat in swimsuit.
Marina hung out in boat while checking back in. Then went to pool to hang out and i did water workout while everyone drank. Then came back to boat to cook dinner. Made cauliflower, spinach, kale with garlic,n yeast. Then rice quinoa with tamari. Then sweet potatoes. Guac. Fish with lime vinaigrette lime and soy sauce. Made into tacos with vegetarian beans too. So delicious. Hung out packed. Boys delirious
Day 9 - aug 7 and 8th Homeward Bound. Nicest taxi lady, very dependable, early, knowledgable. Luckily got to airport early so no stress. Flew to Dallas then overnight at Westin. Love having our trips broken up. Really helps sleeping, showering, and ground ourself before heading back. Flight back home was pleasant, so grateful for the comfy seats!! Arrived home and luckily we were in the front of the line to get through the Maui Covid checks. What a great trip. Now time to deal with jet lag and getting back into our routine.
Homeward Bound
Ipad tap out time.
Bye Bahamas. We will miss you. A HUI HOU!
Souvenirs.
Thankful for these comfy seats!! Thanks DAD!
Saving this ladies card in case we ever need it again. She was amazing!
Last Day
Our last day we went back to the marina to stay the night before we went home the next day.
So fun!
Pano.
Love you.
Going to miss this view.
Back to the marina.
Bye Bahamas. 
My little buddy.
Whose going to win?
Racing with Peepaw.
Hanging out.
Shaka.
Thanks for a great trip!
This view.
Weee.
Hanging out by the pool.
Ice Cream with Peepaw.
Hudson's artwork.
My shells.
Goodnight.
Getting our luggage from the hatch.
This view.
Last dinner.
Journey Back
Ice run.
HOT.
Tournament. Whose winning?
Enjoying the moment.
Marina moments.
Waiting for ice.
Checking the yachts.
Woah.
Testing to get back to the US.
Waiting for our results. All negative!!
Waiting for ice.
Family photo.
I love this.
I love you!!
Thank you for this trip!!
Photo opp.
snuggles.
Reminds me of a pic when I was pregnant.
Buds.
Hanging with Gramps.
This view.
Panos.
Photo opp.
Can't get enough.
Crew.
Cabin.
Reading.
Playing.
Awesome.
Where's Justin?
Pulling me around on the paddle board. This was a challenge.
The clouds.
Last sunset out on the water.
Gramps.
Woah.
Duck.
Magical.
Awesome shot.
Grammie and the birds.
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