Food Storage Item of the Week:

Well, I bought my food storage item last week, I just never posted it.
But last week's item was: Vegetables
This week's item is: Fruit (canned/dried)

I've been so happy with my storage so far! It's growing quite a bit faster than I expected it to! My empty shelves are slowly, but steadily filling up.

I now have, just in my food storage, not including my pantry, fridge and freezer, enough food to fed my family very nice meals and snacks for a month. We could go a lot longer, if we rationed it. I'm going to be focusing a lot on water, these upcoming weeks.

I have $15 set aside each week for food storage and I think I will use that money to buy some large drums, to hold water. I have lots of info on storing water, so when I do go forward with my water storage, I will post the tips that were given to me.

Election Day

Today Landon and I talked about Election Day and what that meant. We briefly covered what was taking place and the importance of it. I told him who the candidates were.
Then, we went to The Treehouse Museum and spent some time in the "Presidential Room". We talked about previous presidents, our current president, George W. Bush, and we looked at some books with pictures of the White House.
The Treehouse had a voting booth set up and Landon was able to go into the booth and fill in his first ballot. He was quite excited about that. He voted for Obama to be the next president of the USA and Robin Hood to be the president of The Treehouse.
We are nowing watching the news to see how Election Day folds out. Each time a blue state is announced Landon is excited and each time a red state is announced, he says that perhaps he should have voted for McCain. lol! Oh, how easy he can change his mind!
He said he voted for Obama because it saids like "Rock Obama". lol!
Tension is building at our house, while we wait to see how Landon's vote played out. :) Unfortunetly, I can not vote. My "standing" still remains as my roots, British.
But just the same: Happy Election Day!!

Our Halloween

Halloween this year was a lot of fun! Landon dressed up as a Super Hero.

 Korbin dressed up as a frog.

We went to a church Halloween Party.  Korbin's frog costume was wet from being washed, so he wore a dragon outfit that I was saving for next year.   (It's a little big.)

The boys had fun at the church party. Landon saw a bunch of his buddies. They are all in 3rd grade. lol. Jake is one of Landon's best friends.

Jake's mom told Chris that she thought, at first, Jake was just being nice to Landon and helping him out because he was a new kindergartener, but she says now that she realizes it did not pass and that Landon truly is Jake's best friend. I guess that shows that age makes no difference!

The kids loved the donought game!

They won some fun, silly prizes!

Grandma McDowell came up for the weekend, too. She went Trick or Treating with us. It was so nice to have her with us!! She taught me how to do some loom knitting and we spent our Saturday at The Treehouse, after a visit to JoAnn's (for fabric). Nana and Papa Holland, also, stopped by on Halloween to say hello. My mom had a great outfit!  Halloween was fabulous!

First Day of Homeschool!

Landon began homeschool, today. I did everything in 15 minute sessions, so that it would fully keep his attention. We did singing and dancing in between our "sessions". Sometimes one subject will require two or three sessions (the time is just broken up).
I have found all kinds of fun websites with cute educational songs that cover just about anything and everything! So, we sang while beating our percussion set (that grandma and grandpa bought Landon a couple of years ago) to the beat. That just made it all that much more fun!
Landon loved math time and he does so well at it! It's his strong point. I'm bidding, on E-Bay, for a 1st grade Saxon math course. I just have to wait and see if we win!! (Normally it's $98.50!) In the meantime, I have quite a few of those work at home, type books.
We are going to start out with the Hooked on Phonics K program and see how we like it. I bought one off of e-bay for a great price, but it hasn't reached me yet! (I got a tracking number yesterday and found out that it was shipped on October 22, but then didn't leave Atlanta until yesterday!)
We have the magazine "Highlights". Today we read about the animals in Africa and the difference between conservation and preservation. (I think Landon may become a little environmentalist by the end of this year because he is taking a class at the Ogden Nature Center, with other homeschoolers, and the course material for the year is "Living Sustainably". I want to expand on that in our classroom and with our reading.) He enjoyed hearing about the animals in Africa.
Our story told us, that in Africa the animals would come and eat the farmers crops. That was their livelyhood and food. The boys' job in the family was to go out into the crops and scare away the animals. Some of the animals they named were elephants, baboons and wart hogs, to name a few. The boy, in the true story, was only about Landon's age. He was expected to go out by himself to run off the animals!
Landon thought the prospect of going into Grandma and Grandpa's feild, to scare off animals, was exciting! He said he wished he could live in Africa and do that everyday.
We, also, did Health today and talked all about the Food Pyramid. The funny thing is the stuff I'm using to teach him is the stuff I'll be teaching my client in Peer Parenting. I guess it's not funny, just ironic. Anyway, he picked it up really quick. We taped a pyramid to our classroom floor and cut out food. He had to categorize them. He did great!
We did quite a few things, but there's a quick recap of what we are working on.

Food Storage Item of the Week:

Meat! Canned Meat/Dried Meat....etc.....