Today the kids and I woke up but then couldn't get up! Their dad has been working very late nights to get our boat finished and ready for us to move aboard on 15th January. Sooooo, out of respect (and a little fear,lol) we all kept quiet in our bunks until he woke up which was around 10.45am. Besides the fact that his bunk serves as storage during the day for 2 clothing boxes, my fiddle and 2 backpacks (which were now spread around the salon floor and settees making it difficult to sit around the table and start school) the boat is only 30ft and any move you make can be heard from bow to stern. So, the kids happily stayed in their bunks with their new books that we got from Goodwill yesterday. (They got 19 books, 2 journals, 3 notepads and a photo album at Goodwill all for under $20! We absolutely adore that store but learned that Goodwill is not the same everywhere you go and some charge more for books!)
Eventually Justin rolled out of bed and we all said good morning and I made coffee for us, cheese grits for the kids and then he went off to work on the boat again. Bless him, he told me I could wake him at 9am tomorrow so as to get on with school work sooner. Aaron is trying to get done before 2pm everyday so as to play with his mates who get home from their school at that time - sometimes he makes it, sometimes not.
We began our day 11.30am with the daily Bible Reading. Aaron read from 1st John and Abi read from the gospel of John. Then I read the reflection and we discussed the meditation question. Then both of them read a little about today's Saint of the day and we finished with morning prayers. Abi disappeared to her cabin after that to get dressed and do whatever she has to do to get prepared for school. Aaron pulled out his cursive writing (it was copying a psalm in his workbook) so as to get started and get finished soon! He then memorized a poem called "A Secret" and copied it in his grammar book. I gave him his maths lesson on units of measure, quantities and equations and he did some math work independently.
Then Abi came to join us and we read about King Louis XIII and Louis XIV. They paraded around the boat acting like Louis XIV for a while and then Justin came in asking for a bagel. Justin helped Aaron finish some math equations whilst I started lunch.
I made everyone a bagel with cream cheese and after I made the boat really smokey and the frying pan sizzling and popping, Aaron announced, "The Bagels are ready"! Little monkey. We ate lunch together and then Justin and I had coffee. Then Justin went back to work and Aaron made a start on his spelling words for the week (yes, on Wednesday 2 days late) and then he took off to play with his buds for the afternoon. Abi did her Reading comprehension book about journal writing and ordering events and then I gave her an hour break from school. They fed "Feathers" our latest neighbour on the dock. She is a white duck and poops everywhere but we just love her. Justin even bought special "duck food" for her for when we don't have any scraps to give her.
Abi came back from playing outside for an hour (3.30pm) and I gave her a maths lesson in long division and multiplication and positive and negative numbers. She bawked at how elementary it was but then made loads of silly mistakes on her worksheet until she got her brain in gear. She then did her spelling words for the week and sentences too. She also did her book report which is due Friday! She then left to go play outside with her brother and his friends again.
I vacuumed the boat whilst everyone was outdoors and cleaned up breakfast and lunch dishes. I also ordered an astronomy book with a $10 gift card I got from Memoria Press!
This evening they came in when their friends left. They are reading books and chillaxing.
Justin will be in soon and we will have dinnner. He is making dirty rice tonight. The first non seafood meal in over a week! The kids will be happy. The thing is we got 31 lbs of fish for Christmas from one of Justin's customers in Alaska. He sent us king salmon, wild salmon, snapper and cod! We all love fish and we have all thoroughly enjoyed it but the kids protested after fish and mussel curry last night. Abi ate hers whilst holding her nose and Aaron bravely fought back the urge to regurgitate. It wasn't the fish so much as the mussels they didn't like. We have never given them much choice in their dinner options however and we encouraged them to eat 2 mussels each. Abi never should have cut her mussels into lots of tiny bits because then every bite of curry tasted of mussels poor girl. Aaron only heard the 2 mussel requirement after he had eaten 6 of them:)
They are both hungry now and I have given Abi an apple and Aaron an orange. We are all on a diet since the Christmas feasting took place!
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