SL Core 100 Week 5 "B" Feb. 4-10th, 2018 SICK, Dd to Doc.

SL Core 100 Week 5 "B" 

Feb. 4-10th, 2018 

Dd Strep Throat, on Antibiotics

Agnes isn't too impressed with the beautiful views of winter outside.

Hello Friends!

This was a hard week; I don't like seeing my Dd not feeling well.  I debated on and off all week before she finally went over the threshold and was obviously needing to see a doctor.  I took her temperature each day, had her gargle with salt water, eat healthy, sleep late, and rest, day after day, but nothing helped her beat the bug.  Thursday night we got a major snow storm, so bad that the Friday Grace classes were actually canceled!  But, when Dd woke up it was clear she needed to see the doctor, so we waited for the 8 am rush hour to pass and then headed to out.  

Strep Throat:

We were fortunate to see a local PA(Physician's Assistant); the weather was so bad I didn't want to drive the 45 minutes to the place we normally go and we've been debating changing offices now that we are all settled in our new home.  We have still been going to the office that is next to the apartment building we were in our first year in Michigan, while waiting for our house in Indiana to sell.  The local office was actually fantastic, really, really good.  We didn't have an appointment, we just showed up to see if they had an "Immediate Care (IC)" b/c the internet said they did, but, they said that they don't have IC but could fit us in if we agree to see a PA and we only had to wait around 30 minutes.  Alex, the PA, said she had seen a lot of people testing positive for flu and wanted to test Dd for that along with the obvious need to test for Strep Throat.  It didn't take long for the test results to show she did have Strep Throat, but not the flu.  We picked up the antibiotics on the way home, where we both hit our sofa's and didn't move for two days.  The flu hit me like a brick wall and I was miserable.  It was kinda nice not feeling guilty for just watching DVD's and being a lump.

SNOW & COLD: Snowed 5 of 7 days!

Sunday started the return to Michigan winter---lots of snow and zero degrees; which just kept coming all week long.  I think the news said we had 11 inches of new snow by Wednesday!  

SEWING:

I worked all week, bit by bit, on making cushion covers for the sofa and love seat (5 covers).  I finally found my groove and enjoyed using my sewing machine! Yay!  Tuesday I finished one whole cushion!  The first few days I had tried sewing by hand before realizing that I was going to have to face the sewing machine after all.  I'm glad I conquered that hesitation!  Our old sewing machine literally broke down every time I tried to use it, it was really old and a hand-me-down, but I just thought I wasn't good with sewing machines.

Chickens:

I tried to keep coming up with fun dishes for the chickens as well as hand feeding Ms. Lemon and some of the other molting chickens.  I noticed more new feathers on some of the girls.  Zeus continues to try to attack me; which isn't fun in the small coop.  I have to keep reminding myself of how tiny his brain is and that he isn't smart enough to know how hard I work to take good care of them.

This Weeks LIMITED achievements:

Bible:

Continued on with our chronological "Integrated" NT study.

Church, Sunday School, Volunteered for games at Olympians on Wed., Strings Group at church on Thurs.

Dd has been doing a bible app--a You Version Bible, and really liking it a lot for her personal daily devotions.  I'm truly enjoying the Beth Moore Entrusted book and DVD program from the Ladies Bible Study at church.

Read Aloud: My add-in

A Separate Peace by John Knowles: In Process

Spark Notes online to analyze each chapter as we go.

Science:

Apologia Biology: Module 2, Kingdom Monera 

Bit by bit, I finished reading this module by Thurs., we are supposed to collect pond water and look at it under a microscope but I am thinking we will have to try that in a few months when the water unfreezes!

Art:

Dd did a LOT of drawing this week.  She wasn't feeling good, but was okay with being read to, so I read and she drew.  It seemed like a good compromise with her illness, and better than not getting anything done!

Art Classes:

Both art classes were canceled this Fri.

I just love how beautiful the snow is on the evergreens.

 Foreign Language: German
Duolingo: five times this week

Math: Saxon Geometry

Dd had her four lessons done and was all primed for her Friday Grace math class, and then it was canceled due to the latest snow storm that hit over Thurs. night/ Fri. morning.  

Fun Readers:

Ahsoka by E.K. Johnston:(audio) In Process

Winter by Marisa Meyer:(audio and book) In Process
Me Before You by JoJo Moyes

Wires and Nerve by Marissa Meyer

Sonlight Reader:

Amos Fortune by Elizabeth Yates: In Process

Music Classes:

Intermediate Orchestra: violin 

Intermediate Band: alto sax

Strings Group: Ukulelel

Music, Private Lessons:

Piano lessons with Wendy

One song she is working on with Wendy is the theme song from The Sting called The Entertainer, and no, not the Billy Joel song, the Scott Joplin song!  

Violin lessons with Christie

Practice---definitely not doing great practicing her sax with Strep Throat, her motivation this week was very low. 

 "Honey, what are you doing?" I asked numerously...her response often was the same sentence: "I'm being held down by a cat."  Yup.  She kept going back to bed, where a cat would find her and get cozy laying with her and then Dd would just lay there...poor kid just wasn't feeling well.

The snow made it up to the snowman by the end of the week.  Many churches canceled services for Sunday, but, not ours.

Week 5, of Core 100, just didn't see much progress this week.  Hoping next week, with the aid of antibiotics, perhaps she can make a little headway.

.............