Last week my girlies and I took a field trip to the opposite end of our state. We visited the Capitol, walked all around it. We even sat in on part of a session.

The top of our capitol.

Inside the dome.

I just love this chandelier! Beautiful.

I thought this was neat.

The floor. I thought it was beautiful.

Bess Streeter Aldrich. One of the best authors ever.

I got the best book from Rainbow Resource. It is called Healthy Me and is by Michelle O’Brien-Palmer. It is for ages 5-8 and is just chock full of wonderful activities to do. It has sections on cleanliness, teeth, nutrition, exercise, and safety.

Yesterday we did an experiment with tomato soup. The girlies learned about microbes and hand washing. I rubbed their hand with a cotton swab, then rubbed that in some tomato soup in a low bowl. We put that in a ziploc baggie and watch it every day for 10 days. They say the second or third day you should see the microbes growing. We check it every day for a week and then throw it out.

Today we made soap. I got two bars of glycerin soap. The recipe calls for unscented but the store I went to was out of unscented. I bought muffin tin with heart shapes so we are making heart shaped soap. The girlies picked out lemon oil to scent the soap and the lady at the store (we love this store and they know our names!) gave the girls a tester of Freesia. So we have lemon and freesia soap.

I feel so oh..Little House on the Prairie-ish.

Here are some pictures of the process.

Beanie stirring the melting glycerin.

Goober stirring the melting glycerin.

Half of the amount we made cooling.

On a different topic. We use Story of the World for history. (thanks, sis!) I love it because it’s easy. The girlies love it because it is written in story form. They get coloring pages and maps to do. Here are some pictures of them doing their map work.

Beanie doing her map.

And Goober with her map.

I thought I would share some scenes from our Christmas.

We had a lot of snow already then it started snowing Christmas Eve around midnight. It turned into a blizzard, and snowed all morning on Christmas day. We have truly been blessed to be inundated with snow.

The girlies in their Christmas Jammies

The girlies are working on the puzzle Beanie (the little one) got for Christmas from Goober, the older. (I can’t remember if I’m using real names or nicknames here…tee hee)

Beanie in the candlelight. I love this picture.

Goober in the candlelight.

Our centerpiece. If you look closely in the back you can see Dear Man’s hand.

One of the best gifts ever given!!!

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