The Byzantine Empire

Just like Hammurabi, Justinian had his own set of laws. Here are a couple of my favorites... -If you find a jewel or other treasure washed up on the seashore, you can keep it for yourself.

-When a bishop, priest, or pastor is praying or preaching, he has to speak loudly enough for everyone to hear. If he doesn't, God will punish him, and so will the emperor!

Here is history "class" out on the patio. Luke learned a valuable lesson today:  When you are surrounded by four females, it is not a good idea to claim (even in jest) that all of the bad things that happened in the Byzantine Empire was the result of the Empress consulting the Emperor how to rule. For this lesson there were paper dolls of Justinian and his wife, Theodora. When Hazel scribbled in blue on her coloring page Sylvia fixed it just by saying, "Just pretend that she colored it good."

Tuesday: Our Errand Day!

Tuesday is our errand day.  We certainly run errands on other days of the week, but Tuesday is when we go crazy.  Luke and Isabel have piano for an hour and a half in the morning so that means that I get a couple of errands done with only two kids (wish they were the easy two.)  Since our errands are so much fun and exciting I think I will list them... 1.  drop off Luke and Isabel at piano 2.  go to scout office to buy Webelos paraphernalia 3.  let Sylvia waste her Target gift card on some toy hamsters 4.  pick up Luke and Isabel 5.  eat at Wienerschnitzel for the first time (it was wieneriffic!) 6.  buy huge sheet of watercolor paper at art store 7.   go to Office Max to use their cutty thingy to make huge sheet less huge 8.   watch people at the post office give me and my ketchup faced kids dirty looks. 9.  pick up papers to fill out

All in all it was a good errand day.  Here we are at Wiener Schneezer's (as Sylvia calls it.)

Sylvia loved that she could touch the roof.

And I loved this guy's pony tail.  No seriously, I want my hair to be long enough to do that.

My Little Webelos

This is an update from my love, hate...hate relationship with cub scouts.  Here is my little Webelos all decked out in his nerdy uniform.  Tonight he is in his bed dreaming about working on his nature badge tomorrow.  I love my cub scout.