Last week was Spring break around these parts. We are usually not mindful of Spring break as we are not on break from public school or Iowa State, so it really doesn't affect us much.
Saturday we set out for a little adventure, we tried to show the kids how giant these windmills really are. It was a good perspective lesson.
We stopped off at the Hotel Pattee. They had a pretty cool ally with steel art next to the hotel and bike shop. We did not eat at the hotel since we had just come from Jefferson and the doughut shop, but the restaurant looked good and had a moving miniature train cruising around on tracks near the ceiling. Pretty neat.
They also had a little bike repair station, six or so tools and a bike pump on the sidewalk for anyone to use.
We continued on and ended up at the theater in West Des Moines, and it just so happened that Zootopia was playing. It was a fun movie, my favorite part was the scenes that featured the sloths.
Everyone knows about our donut-donut Saturday morning tradition. After 5 years, it's fun to try new spots. We don't like Casey's, Dunkin Donuts or HyVee donuts as well as Dutch Oven so we headed out of town and hit up Bunkers Dunkers in Jefferson. Robert loved the apple fritter. I think we all thought the blueberry and strawberry donut holes were stellar.
Monday : Look, two pies cooling on a window sill on Pi day. Bacon pie or quiche Lorianne and crumb topped apple pie.
We also did school on Monday, it was our last day of Classical Conversations for the year. 24 weeks in the books!
Tuesday: It was free cone day at Dairy Queen, ice cream for dessert. I prepped all the kids before hand that we were getting cones, but they could choose vanilla, chocolate or swirl, and of course Dallas got up to order and asked for a chocolate shake. We got our free cones and donated to the Make a wish foundation. Thanks Dairy Queen. We did home school at home.
Wednesday: We didn't have church or Awana since it was Spring break, so the evening seems pretty empty. Solution was going out to dinner. Played a couple rounds of bananagrams waiting for our pizza. By the way, Emily dislikes Great Plains pizza so much she did not eat (I think she would like it, but she threw up there once and remembers). We picked her up some tuna salad from Wheatsfield on the way home. She is so much like me, this is something I would do as well.
We did home school at home, but it didn't go great and I could tell we needed a break the rest of the week.
Thursday: St. Patricks day, or the only day my kids get fun cereal with marshmallows. I guess some leprechaun let himself in our house over night, decorated the table and left some Lucky Charms. I had the kids eat the entire box because I figured it there was only one or two servings left over the next day fights would ensue. I like this tradition, we are not Irish, and so much of the holiday is really centered around beer that this is a nice thing to do with kids. They would probably not like corned beef and cabbage anyway. I like easy and simple, bonus points that it was fun.
After breakfast. (and no school!) We headed down the block to hang out with some friends. I was proofing one of the young gals in this family for Memory Master in our Classical Conversations curriculum. That means she has 24 weeks of science, history, math, timeline, Latin, geography, and English grammar memorized. I was the tutor proof, which means she had already said the material to her mother and one other adult before me. I took her 1 hour to say it to me and she did an excellent job. She will still proof with the Director, but that is a "spot" proof and she will only be asked to recite 25% of the material. My kids played with the other siblings while we worked.
We celebrated afterward with fresh homemade green bread.
Friday: We cleaned in the morning, each kid had a list of stuff to accomplish. We hit up Panara for lunch, and then a couple of stores and the library before heading home. Robert took them to the park.
No school
We also took the Spring break school free days to work on some sewing skills. This is Noelle and Dallas first time working on stitching.
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