State-by-State Scrapbook :: Illinois
Illinois is his land.
and known to be fair and grand.“
.: Illinois by Captain :.
*The links to the worksheets used for these notebook pages can be found here, and here is the link to all of our State-by-State Study posts.
I’ll be back later with the recipe the girls made for Illinois yesterday!
1824 – Josefina :: An American Girl Lap Book and Unit Study
The girls completed their Josefina lap books last Spring (as you can tell by the green grass and flowers in the background, and Chiquita’s long hair! Oh, and Twinkle Toes braces free smile! lol) but I am just now finishing up the post since we just did a brief review and crafted the “Corn Husk Doll!”
Doll
For the cover the girls each choose an image from the American Girl Website’s Wallpaper selections, cropping and pasting it to the front of their covers. They then cut out the year “1824” with the help of our Cricut to add to the front cover as well.
- Who is Josefina?
- United States Map
- In Josefina’s Day
- Josefina’s Favorites
- Living in 1824
- Conflict
- Sombrieta
- Spanish Words
- Josefina’s World
- Recipe Pocket (homemade)
- 5 Tablespoons powdered, unsweetened coca
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- Pinch of Salt
- 1/3 cup honey
- 1/2 cup hot water
- 4 cups whole milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
Make a Corn Husk Doll
We used an Early American Corn Husk Doll Kit to make our doll,
but you can also find free directions online.
Painted Memory Box
The girls also have the Painted Memory Box Craft Kit, but decide to save it for an upcoming special occasion! 😉
Celebrating St. Valentine’s Day 2013
Rascal (in memory of Sparkle) gave out Goldfish Snacks, Snuggles and Rose choose fun shaped pretzles, and Chiquita opted for Candy Rings “to save for Sunday!”
Another game that my friend Trina had for the kids to play was Cupid’s Arrows. She set up a table with two hearts (bowls), one for each team. Gave each child their own straw, and each team a large pile of q-tips. She set a timer and told the “Cupids” that they had to get as many “arrows” into their heart as possible. To do this you must place the straw in your mouth, load it with an “arrow,” and then blow the “arrow” out the end of the straw towards the bowl. The team with the most arrows through the heart wins. They had a blast!
First thing this morning my children pulled out all of their sugar cereals and candies to enjoy. It is the First Sunday of Lent after all!
{pretty, happy, funny, real} :: Toddler Days
Last Sunday I made French Toast for breakfast, topped with maple syrup and the rest of the Apple Pie Filling leftover from the Hobbit Apple Tarts. Bud took his time eating his breakfast, and just as soon as I left the table for a minute to start cleaning up, he decided to rub his plate on the top of his head. I turned around to see him looking like this as he set the plate back down on the table!
I hope the first week of Lent is off to a great start for you all! It has been so busy in our home this week, with Mass on Ash Wednesday, a get together in town with friends on St. Valentine’s Day, and the tutor here on Friday, in addition to other errands… I’ve also managed to continue with my exercising/time on the treadmill each day and, after losing 2 more pounds (for a total of 15 this year) I have finally hit my pre-pregnancy weight from Bud! It is definitely a start! Now to focus on the weight leftover from my pregnancy with Rose… 😉
A Few More Pictures From Our Latin Mass
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| Preparing to sing the Chant before Mass |
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| Our sleepy little Rose |
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| Handing out Missals before Mass |
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| Having a very difficult time cutting the cake… Note to self: Next time bring my own cake knife! lol |
Beignets and Baby’s First Steps…
(If you are reading a feed, click over to watch the video!)
Celebrating the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes
(Be sure to join the Novena for Pope Benedict and the Papacy!)
Our First Latin Mass :: Quinquagesima Sunday
Quinquagesima Sunday: When the Roman Catholic liturgical calendar was revised in 1969, the three pre-Lenten Sundays were removed; they are now denominated simply as Sundays in Ordinary Time. Septuagesima, Sexagesima, and Quinquagesima are all still observed in the celebration of the traditional Latin Mass.
I loved having my copy of Laudamus Te (The Magazine of the Extraordinary Form of the Latin Liturgy of the Roman Rite) to follow along during the Mass. (Thank you to my dear mother-in-law for my gift subscription!)
Mass was packed, absolutely beautiful and Father’s homily was incredibly inspiring as we prepare to begin Lent this coming week! Our oldest two boys were able to serve, my husband sang in the choir, and I managed to still take a few pictures to share with you all, despite the squirmy little boy in my arms. (Our friend Marc took additional pictures which he’ll be sharing soon!)
We are so very thankful for our Pastor’s hard work and willingness to accommodate my husband’s request for this Latin Mass and the quarterly Masses that will follow! (Though we will continue to pray for more frequent Latin Masses. In the meantime I am very thankful that we are able to have these, since it usually requires us having a baby to have a Latin Mass in the Extraordinary Form here! lol) We are so very thankful to Father Kotas for driving over 2 hours each way to offer this Mass for us! And I am also thankful to all of my visitors here at Shower of Roses who have been praying for this intention of ours as well! May God Reward you all!
A Hobbit Birthday Party!
This past Thursday Rascal turned 11 years old! For this birthday, having just finished reading (and listening to) The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, he asked if we could have a Hobbit themed birthday party! It was so much fun (even if I did spend too much time in the kitchen!) and I’ve been so excited to share the pictures with you all.
Decorations
“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit hole, and that means comfort.”
For decorations I used a few things I had around the house to create a “Hobbit Hole” out of our dining room hutch! We covered the front with a green blanket, cut a yellow circle out of card stock, and then cut two pieces of brown paper to create the round door hole. We placed a green plant on top along with a black closet maid tote on top as the chimney.
The banner was inspired by Charlotte’s lovely Lord of the Rings Banner! In fact, after hearing how slightly overwhelmed I was on Tuesday night (while talking to her during the girls Irish Dance class before going shopping) she kindly whipped up a document and emailed it to me! All I had to do was print it on parchment paper, tear the edges and glue the letters onto some 8″x5.5″ black card stock! Thank you dear friend, you are the BEST!
You can download the banner document here. I also created a door sign using a “Party Business” font I downloaded online. You can download that document here.
We also made a “tree” out of brown paper, which turned out out looking more like an Ent! 🙂
An Unexpected Journey
“Sorry! I don’t want any adventures, thank you. Not Today. Good morning! But please come to tea -any time you like! Why not tomorrow? Good bye!”
We started the day with a quick trip to town for a Birthday Coffee Drink and found some beautiful golden rings while we were at the store to bring back for 2nd Breakfast!
Defeating Smaug
“[S]ome of the younger people in the town openly doubted the existence of any dragon in the mountain, and laughed at the greybeards and gammers who said that they had seen him flying in the sky in their young days.”
We spent some of the afternoon playing The Hobbit Boardgame!
“The mere fleeting glimpses of treasure which [the dwarves] had caught as they went along had rekindled all the fire of their dwarvish hearts; and when the heart of a dwarf, even the most respectable, is wakened by gold and by jewels, he grows suddenly bold, and he may become fierce.”
“The dragon is withered, His bones are now crumbled; His armour is shivered, His splendour is humbled.”
An Afternoon Adventure
“I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it’s very difficult to find anyone.’ I should think so — in these parts! We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!”
As an extra snack, while I finished making dinner, I gave the kids baggies of Mountain Trail Mix and sent them outside to find their own adventure.
“Then something Tookish woke up inside of him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking stick.”
“There are no safe paths in this part of the world. Remember you are over the Edge of the Wild now, and in for all sorts of fun wherever you go.”
“Far over the misty mountains cold
To dungeons deep and caverns old
We must away, ere break of day,
To find our long-forgotten gold.”
Hobbit Hole Door Cookies
“It had a perfectly round door like a porthole, painted green, with a shiny yellow brass knob in the exact middle.”
As I was thinking about what to do with the leftover Green Sugar Sheet and Sixlets from the birthday cake, I decided to try and make Hobbit Hole Cookies (inspired by these) using the leftover Fudge Stripes from this year’s Candlemas Cookie Candles with Drip Plates!
I used my circle hole punch to cut the sugar sheet and added a yellow Sixlets in the center with a dab of yellow sparkle gel. I thought that they turned out so cute, and they only took a few minutes to make!
Dinner
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
“The dwarves ate and ate, and talked and talked, and time got on. At last they pushed their chairs back and Bilbo made a move to collect the plates and glasses. “I suppose you will all stay to supper for cake?” he said in his politest unpressing tones. “Of course!” said Thorin. “And after. We shan’t get through the business till late, and we must have some music first. Now to clear up!”
Hobbit Music
“Now for some music!” said Thorin. “Bring out the instruments!”
The Hobbit Party. Shire Folk Music
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (soundtrack)
Birthday Gifts
We wrapped his birthday gifts in brown paper, tied with string, and attached gift tags and a beautiful new Hobbit Bookmark hand painted and ordered from The Fig and Thimble! (NOTE: The wonderful dwarf hoods the children are wearing were also all made by The Fig and Thimble!)
The older children also wrapped up gifts for their brother! Twinkle Toes choose a couple mini-figures from Series 9 (and was very happy to discover that one of them was the Forest Maiden with a bow… Yep, Mom is getting good at “guessing” what’s inside the packages! lol), Chiquita wrapped up the PB&J Candy Bar that the tooth fairy had recently left under her pillow (inside a little hobbit hole box she decorated!), Snuggles wrapped up some of his coins and we picked up some trail mix when we were at the store to add, and Captain did many extra little jobs and chores to save for a little lego set (the one that comes with Samwise Gamgee) for his brother.
Rascal’s other gifts include the next four books in the Tales of the RAF series (since he enjoyed the first book which he received in his Christmas stocking so much), The Hobbit Lego Game, Hobbit Attack of the Wargs Legos, Lego Empire State Building, and a World War II Discovery Kit.
Bilbo’s Hobbit Hole Birthday Cake
The birthday boy loved his cake and added the finishing touches just before we sang Happy Birthday!
“You are a very fine person, Bilbo Rascal, and I am very fond of you; but you are only quite a little fellow in a wide world after all!”
{pretty, happy, funny, real} :: Rascal’s Hobbit Birthday
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