7 Things I've Been Loving This Week!

I know I typically do the 7 Things on a Tuesday, but I was out of post ideas, so here we are. Tuesday's kind of a stupid day to do these things anyway. For those of you who don't know why I typically do them on Tuesdays, I did it then because 7 Things was a replacement for 20 Things Tuesday. How about that?


1: We started school on Monday, so that's been awesome.

2: I'm using Notgrass History this year (for the first time), and I really like it. It combines English (literature based), History and Bible all in one curriculum.

3: My cousin, who's seven years my junior, came over the last two days. It's been nice to see her again. We babysat her all the time when she was little, but since she started school, we see her a lot less.

4: I love makeup, as you all know, and my cousin loves it too. It's nice, to share something you love with someone else who loves it as well, especially since most of my friends aren't as big into makeup as I am.

5: Speaking of makeup, I got a new powder foundation, which blends into my skin perfectly. I am quite happy with it. My mom even liked it, which is saying something, considering most of my makeup breakthroughs are hardly interesting to her.

6: The summer reading program at our library has been great for me this year. I've already read 65 hours, and I still have one more day until it's over.

7: My grandma had a yard sale last weekend, and it was a great success. It was fun to do. I was the person who tallied everyone's total earnings in our notebook. I think I did well, considering I do a lot of my math in my head.

7 Things I've Been Loving This Week!

1: Swimming at my grandparents with my aunt and her boyfriend. Her boyfriend is not my favorite person, but he's funny, so I tolerate him.

2: Finally being done with school for the year. It's good to be done.

3: Getting a stack of random comic books at a yard sale on Friday. I love graphic novels, so comic books are probably going to be awesome as well.

4: We went to a parade on Friday, too, and I got a decent amount of candy, unlike my brother, who was not the crowd favorite. For some reason, everyone was offering me candy, over my brother. It was hysterical. Well, not for him.

5: Getting coffee at my favorite coffee shop. White Mocha's are the best, hot or frozen.

6: Seeing my fish swim around in their newly cleaned tank.

7: Having a lovely picnic with some fabulous friends. It was a wonderful time.

7 Things I've Been Loving This Week!

1: Teaching an art class to some of the little kids at our homeschool group. It's fun to do, and we finished our last class together on Friday. It was a lot of work, but it was totally worth it.

2: I received a incredibly good response to my art class. Everyone told me how fabulous I did. I didn't think I was that incredible, but apparently everyone thought otherwise. Crazy, right?

3: We went shopping earlier this week, and we got multiple boxes of this fabulous, organic, Southwestern rice. I've eaten it almost everyday since.

4: Completing the A to Z Challenge was fun. I liked it more than I originally thought.

5: Finished my history and geography for the year. Until next fall, I do not have to even touch a geography worksheet. Hallelujah!

6: We had band practice yesterday and it went great. We accomplished a lot. We practiced the song we are doing for the show on Friday, so hopefully we perform it well.

7: Our chickens are back to laying eggs again after a winter-long dry spell. Now, we have to make eggs a larger part of our diet. I might make some poached eggs tomorrow. I like eggs, so it isn't hard for me to throw them into my diet.

7 Things I've Been Loving This Week!

1: Quinoa. I got some organic quinoa at Aldi's recently and I've been enjoying it. I eat it with avocado, eggs and feta cheese. Almost 20 grams of protein.

2: Merle Travis' Strictly Guitar. I have the vinyl record and it's become my favorite record I've played so far. As the title says, it's just guitar playing, but it's wonderful guitar playing.

3: Studying my Bible Quizzing material. I'm finally getting into the groove of studying and I'm getting better with my material, finally.

4: My new Christmas jeans. I received almost ten pairs of jeans for Christmas from various relatives. I haven't even been able to wear them all yet. I could have, but I found my favorite pairs and I prefer to wear those first. Then they get dirty, (or mom won't let me out of the house in the same pair of jeans again without them being washed, even if they are perfectly clean), I have others to chose from.

5: Slow-motion videos. I went over to my best friends house and we made a ton of slow motion videos. It was super fun. Something about watching things at a slower speed makes them more interesting.

6: We went over to visit some friends we hadn't visited with in many months. It was nice to talk and catch up.

7: New curriculum. Today the new Total Language Plus stuff we ordered to finish out the year came today. I've almost finished the book I'd been working with, so it came just in time.

7 Things I've Been Loving This Week!

1: Band practice with my friends today.

2: Refried beans.

3: Becoming a vegetarian. It's actually been a really fun process so far.

4: Math. I have a lot to catch up on and I'm trying to keep a positive attitude about it, even if I'm not good at it.

5: Peanut butter and marshmallow ice cream topping sandwiches. We had some left over marshmallow ice cream topping for the snack (make your own ice cream sundaes) we brought to Bible Quizzing practice and I put some on a peanut butter sandwich. They're a nice alterative to peanut butter and jelly.

6: Eating the candy I received for Christmas. I have a large variety of choices.

7: Guitar Hero. My grandma got me a new one for Christmas and I've been enjoying playing. My favorite Guitar Hero is Legends of Rock, but the other ones are good too. I just beat my first song on expert so finally I'm getting up there in skill. You know your playing old video games when the 'modern' songs were released 10 years ago.

7 Things I've Been Loving This Week!

1: Thanksgiving. All the family, food and togetherness was fun.

2: My new TobyMac CD. My favorites are Lights Shine Bright and This is What Love Feels Like.

3: A week off school. I like holiday breaks, but typically we don't get this long off.

4: We helped my grandmother clean out my great grandmother's house. The cleaning itself wasn't fun, but I left with 3 dollars, 6 shirts, 4 rings, a snowflake pin, an umbrella and a meat cleaver.

5: The library. One of the best inventions ever made.

6: CoCo Wheats, one of my very favorite breakfast foods.

7: Joan of Arc. If I had to chose a role model, it would have to be Joan. Her courage and faith is inspiring.

7 Things I've Been Loving This Week!

1: The beauty of remembering (before midnight) I had a blog post to write.

2: Fixing my Kindle Fire. Something was wrong with the battery, but luckily it was a quick fix.

3: Collecting 265 Monarch caterpillars in our fields. I'll post pictures and more information tomorrow, but until then, I'll leave you wondering. :)

4: Reading some interesting books.

5: One of my favorite tee shirts; a navy blue, loose and comfortable shirt that reads, "Dear Math, I have no intention of finding your X. Grow up and solve your own problems."

6: Freshly washed sheets. They smell so nice. We washed sheets today, so I'm sleeping on freshly washed sheets of glory tonight.

7: Our family had a large campfire and invited several of our family members back. That was fun.


Care to know what I'm not loving this week? Bug bites. They're all over my legs and they itch like crazy. Sometimes, I can't wait for winter, but I know it will be back and bitter before we know it.

7 Things I've Been Loving This Week!

1: Hanging out with some of my friends at the park.

2: Ramen noodles.

3: Watching Sumo of the Opera with my brother.

4: Canning.

5: Biology and art.

6: Learning new guitar songs.

7: This

 
 

7 Things I've Been Loving This Week!

1: Cleaning off our canning shelves, gearing up for canning season.

2: Canning peach jam. It's delicious.

3: This reality



4: Getting a new pair of dark gray jeans that actually fit.

5: Inheriting 4 pairs of hiking boots from my aunt.

6: This

 

7: Doing art and biology in school. Art is my very favorite subject, but biology is a close second. My favorite subject use to be Language Arts, now, we're studying word etymologies, and it's the worst.

 

 



7 Things I've Been Loving This Week!

1: Practicing guitar and learning new chords.

2: Marshmallow fluff, the food of angels.

3: Volcanic lightening. It's beautiful. Here is a link to some gorgeous pictures.

4: Reading the comics in the newspaper and laughing at the ridiculous problems in the advice column.

5: Reading, reading and more reading. I'm participating in the summer reading program our library offers, and every hour you read counts towards it.

6: Hanging out with my little cousin.

7: Watching American Ninja Warrior with my brother.

7 Things I've Been Loving This Week!

1: Going to the library after the trail. One of my friends picked out several books for me, and some of them turned out to be really good.

2: Hanging out with my cousin.

3: Reading like a crazy person, trying to fill up my summer reading program chart.

4: Picking blackberries and huckleberries with my mom and brother.

5: Meeting my uncle's girlfriend's parents. We went out on the lake and I went tubing. My arms are still sore.

6: Bagels. Many bagels.

7: Helping with childcare at my church. The kids were super sweet and I built countless block towers for them to destroy.

BONUS!

7 Things I've Been Loving This Week!

1: Having my cousin K.D. over on Thursday.

2: The peace and quiet of the house so I could read on Friday. I read many hours that afternoon.

3: A fun family reunion on Saturday.

4: Beating my dad, brother and cousins at basketball at the family reunion.

5: Swimming at a lake on Sunday with my dad and brother. That was the first time I've been swimming this year.

6: Going for ice cream with some family yesterday.

7: Going swimming with some of my friends at another lake today. I had a lot of fun.

BONUS! 8: This pun:

7 Things I've Been Loving This Week!

1: This pun

 

2: Yesterday I started my school year. It's been awesome so far.

 

3: I signed up for the summer reading program at our local library. I've already read several hours and I only signed up yesterday.

 

4: My new Art curriculum. It's awesome. Instead of having to answer questions on what you've learned, you have activities. Fun. :)

 

5: Finding out one of my favorite books is releasing a sequel this fall.

 

6: Watching the Alvin and Chipmunks movies with my brother again.

 

7: This gem