5-2-19
Day 1 #Europe2019

Oh my...what a day! I was so excited to go to bed at 8:30 last night since we hadn't slept in over thirty hours. I forgot jet lag was real... especially for little ones 😬😭 Marcel was awake from 10-3:30 :( At least I had my phone in my hotel room and we watched our fave ABC movie over and over and over.....😛😴

But...all is well!!! That's only to be expected! We had a lovely breakfast, walked to the rv rental and we're off 🚐😍 First stop....Lourdes, France at the foot of the Pyrenees Mountains 💞🙏
We hit up a great grocery store #LOVEforeigngrocerystores 🍌🍎🍖🍒🍫🍨☕🍰. We're pretty much just eating bread, Nutella, cheese, salami, coffee, and desserts for every meal #bestmenuever We already enjoyed our first crepes. Our rv spot for the next few days is picturesque. Partway up the mountain, beautiful view down to Lourdes, nice playground, and some farm animals 🐷🐓🐴
We ventured down into Lourdes only for a quick visit this evening, but we have four days here, so there will be many pictures to come 🎥 #pictureoverload 😂😘

5-1-19

Made it to Ireland 🇮🇪The boys think it’s 4 am. Mom and dad didn’t sleep a wink, but I think I’m too excited to be tired! Of course Marcel is wide awake and eating puffs 🙄 7 more hours to France 🇫🇷 #Europe2019

4-30-19

And we're off ✈

#onebackpackeach 👊
#Europe2019

When you only have one backpack, what do you do....layer! (Two skirts and book lady pj pants 💕 pic in comments 😂)

4-28-19

5 boys
5 backpacks
1 month in Europe
0 checked luggage

#justtheessentials #traveljournalaMUST #lotsofhandwashing #Europe2019 #onebackpackeach #evenmomanddad

The Apple Pie Tree - preschool lapbook

Well, apple season has been over for awhile now...and we've been done with our apple study for awhile too.  Time sure does go fast.  I've been meaning to blog this one for a few weeks now, so here goes :)

Tot really enjoyed this apple study and lapbook.  I got it from www.homeschoolshare.com (of course). 

We got the books they recommended out of the library and got to work.

We did various apple printables that I picked up here and there...

roll and graph...

 painting small, medium and large...

 cutting/gluing by size...

 apples/not apples...

 finger apples...

I put together a SUPER simple apple sensory bin (no awards for spectularness here for this one, but he liked it :)  )

 It contains some red water beads (we all love the feel of these) and some little apples.  Yes, that is the USA jello mold.  Why?? Don't ask - the only red container I had :)

 chop sticking the apples into his Super Sorting Pie...

 He wanted to make me an apple pie of course. 

Momma had told him that we would make an apple pie together, but that never happened...so we settled for apple cinnamon oatmeal.

We took a field trip to a local apple cider mill and saw the bottling process.

 Rex is doing a Johnny Appleseed lapbook currently so we joined in on his apple taste testing!

I found some Montessori 3 part cards - Parts of an apple.  We enjoyed an apple (or two) together, talked about the parts of it and then the life cycle.

For his lapbook, we took a family apple survey.  This was my favorite part!  I blacked out the names to protect the innocent :)

Red apples totally would have won, but some family threw it over the top for the yellows with their "X 7" - you know who you are!!  I'm still voting red :)

And there you have it!  I guess it's still officially fall, so I squeaked this post in just in time before winter!  

Blessed Advent!