our train

The day we had court last week....I was really anxious. And, the kids were stir crazy, and anxious as well. Usually when I am that way, I can't concentrate on anything. Time was passing so slow though, so I decided it was a good day for a project. All the while I was homeschooling, I wanted to build a Train, out of our pioneer project book. I never had all that I needed though. I got to looking around, and realize, luckily, we had everything! Thanks to all this icky weather, our recycling has been piling up. So, we got to building.

And painting....
Everything was so quiet, and peaceful, and I really enjoyed watching the kids get along, and enjoy what they were working on. It made me begin dreaming of trying to structure our summer....so we won't all go crazy. Summer homeschool.

Ahhh....it really makes me miss homeschooling the kids. Things like this, were what I really enjoyed. I need to just be better at getting things planned to work on when they are out of school, b/c that happens so often. :)

Noah finished up painting this while I was at court, and it turned out great! I just haven't gotten a good photo of the final project yet.