Catching up on things!

Well, it has been a while since catching up on things. It has been busy and with a few computer related problems, I have been unable to update the blog. I have also been fighting what might be carpel tunnel syndrome, so sometimes that makes it more difficult to type too.



A couple of weeks ago was Museum Day. We made phone calls and decided to go to a local museum that we have been to before, called the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory. This time, their traveling exhibit was a Holy Land Exhibit. We were able to get in for free and we took my parents with us. It was really cool seeing all of the artificats from the Holy land, including the Dead Sea Scroll. The only disappointment was they wouldn't allow me to have my camera to take picts. Bummer.

Then last week, we went to Homeschool PE playday. While there, we saw that these two bushes were FULL of butterflies. Of course that day I didn't have my camera, etc. So the next day, we went to do some nature studying. We were armed with butterfly nets, critter boxes, sketch books, books for looking up types of them, etc. That day we only saw two butterflies (and LOTS of little moths and moths). We saw a Monarch and a Fritilliary.



Here are the boys:


Here is a Monarch Butterfly:

Activities around our house. Well we still have 3 girls. The smallest one is still struggling but alive. Lately she has spent her time in this:



What is it you might ask? Well it is an oxygen cage. With her trouble breathing and still having the bouts with pneumonia, we created this to help her breathe better. We just drilled one hole on one end for the oxygen tube and 4 little ones on the other end, so that she is not breathing pure oxygen. We also have a cool mist humidifier nearby her oxygen cage so that she doesn't get dried out, which can also be fatal.

A couple of weeks ago, our family had the opportunity to take advantage of a once a year Jewel. The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra has a free concert to introduce their music for the next year. We were able to go as a family and really really enjoy it. They played music by such great artists like Beethoven, Gershwin, Rachmaninoff
Tchaikovsky, and Mussorgsky.




Then, on Monday, we had the opportunity to take advantage of the Free Community day at the Fernbank Natural History Museum in Atlanta. It was our first time there and we were able to be joined by another family that we go to church with.







A couple of days ago, my dh came in and told me that our neighbors next door had Scofodine trees (same family as Muscadines) and we could pick all that we wanted. The kids tasted them, knowing that they were in the same family as the grapes. They were a little sour, but we decided to go and get some and make jelly with it. Problem was, all of the lower ones were gone. The ones left were WAAAYYY up in the trees. It was worth it though.






And...Today is a VERY special day in our home, but I will post more on that in a minute........

Have a good one.

Catching up here on a few things.

Our Field Trip to the Titanic Exhibition.

About a week ago, a group from our church went to the Titanic Exhibit here in Atlanta. We really didn't know if we were going to go and decided at the last minute. The one that we were waiting on was our very own LOH. Knowing that this exhibit had actual artifacts was an issue, because he had convictions that the money spent visiting would go towards other expeditions, further breaking down the ship. We have been to a few displays (which I will call, because they weren't exhibitions, because they were "fake" artifacts and not the real thing), in TN and SC at different Aquariums. He wrestled with it and decided to go because this exhibition, unlike the others, had REAL LIVE items and he knew that it would be something he needed to see.

For someone that doesn't know, my ds, fell in love with the Titanic and ship wrecks at the age of 7, and his obsession, I mean passion began. He now is 13, and had about 30 Titanic books on his shelf and that doesn't include the many many books that have been read and depleted from so many libraries. He has written a book with illustrations to document his passion (done on his own, not my doing) and watched countless numbers of films/documentaries(he didn't watch the Hollywood version, until many years later when it was on the TV, edited and some parts that a young man shouldn't see taken out, etc) (Robert Ballard) and what not, so this is truly
something that he is convicted about. (btw his bedroom is nautical, and he wants it to look like on of the suites on the Titanic ($)c, but we have nixed that and will try to come close to what he wants)

So we went ahead and went, with mixed emotions, but he is so glad he did. All of that information in his head, was popping like popcorn, to the point it was overwhelming, but where people from our church were asking HIM questions, lol. We weren't allowed to take pictures in side, and when I pressed them as to why, they said, because there have been "copycats" (other exhibits) that have copied their ideas, etc, and that is why and after being to those other exhibits I can see why but we got two outside of the exhibit and there is one at the top and and other group shot.

I haven't been able to get back here much, due to being busy. I am headed out to piano in a little bit, but wanted to update you on what has been going on here.

Last Saturday, My husband's company had a large corporate formal event at the High Museum of Art and the Louve exhibit. We were fortunate to be there on the first night of the new exhibit's opening. For those of you who don't know, the Louve is a museum in Paris, France. They have partnered with our Art Museum, over the next 4 years, to bring over their prized artifacts and real art, alternating every so often. They had an exhibit before and they changed it out to the "Art of Kings". Basically, this was art and statues that were in the possession of many Kings around the World. I started to take pictures and was told I could unless, I didn't use a flash. I got upstairs and was told that I couldn't take ANY pictures, so I am glad I got what I got. My parents took the boys for the night, while we went and we picked them up Sunday afternoon, after church. It was weird being at church without them, for sure, and quiet. We will go with the boys as a family later on, but this was just for my husband's company. BTW for those of you who don't know, LOH, has been studying Greece and Mr. Athletic has been studying Rome.


Here is a picture of Napolean


This is Homer (The Illiad and the Odessey) and my sweet (but silly) dh, who decided to get in the picture.


This is in the regular collection in the Art Museum, but it is a pencil drawing by Henri Matisse