August Wrap Up

This month, I read a total of 10 books. Four of them were read to the girls and then the rest were for personal reading. Out of the 5 books on my TBR, I only read 4. I thought about starting Scarlet today right after finishing Cinder, but I found a reading order for The Lunar Chronicles and I want to follow it, so I am going to be starting with some of the short stories from Stars Above.

1. Winter According To Humphrey by Betty G. Birney

2. Under the Dome by Stephen King

3. The Walking Dead book 7 by Robert Kirkman

4. Mr Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater

5. The Walking Dead book 8 by Robert Kirkman

6. Here And Gone by Haylen Beck

7. AstroTwins: Project Blastoff by Mark Kelly

8. CatStronauts: Mission Moon by Drew Brockington

9. Alexander Hamilton Graphic Novel Jonathan Hennessey

10. Cinder by Marissa Meyer

I am still on my "read the books on my shelf first" mindset, so I am hoping to finish the Lunar Chronicles next month. I do have a book on the way from Blogging For Books that I will be reading. My September TBR will be up tomorrow morning, so check it out.

Freebie Haul 8/14- 8/26

Another late post I know, but these will be going back up weekly. I am going to use the same excuse as in my School Week post, it was a relaxing weekend, but then I also was grieving the loss of an old friend on Sunday. I am slowly coming to terms with it, and catch myself wanting to cry, but not doing so because I know it will affect the girls moods as well. But anyways, let's just get on with what I received for the past two weeks.

Monday 8/14: Another"mystery dvd" from Disney Movie Rewards and coupon redemption. I know I showed a Beverly Hills Chihuahua 3 dvd in the last freebie post that was also a "mystery dvd" but then sent me another copy. That's the downfall of mystery DVD's. If you get a duplicate, you can't exchange it. So, we sent this one over to my parents house for when the girls are over there.

Disney Movie Rewards "mystery dvd"

RXBar Kids Apple Cinnamon Raisin protein bars

Tuesday 8/15: Magazine Day!!

September 2017 issue of Fast Company

September/ October 2017 issue of Seventeen

September/ October 2017 issue of WeightWatchers

September 2017 issue of Marie Claire

Wednesday 8/16: No Freebies

Thursday 8/17: Mine and Cayce's Pinchme boxes arrived today!!! They both had the same samples in, so I will be naming everything just once.

Slimfast Protein Shake powder, 2 piece Orbit White gum, ZzzQuil, Shutterfly coupon codes, HelloFresh coupon code

Friday 8/18: Another magazine day!

August 24, 2017 issue of Rolling Stone

September 2017 issue of Better Homes and Gardens

Saturday 8/19: The best freebie day. Coupon redemptions and happy mail

September 2017 issue of Golf Digest

Horizon Organic Good & Go coupon redemption from CrowdTap

Marc Jacobs Crowdkit from CrowdTap

Dove Men+Care dry spray coupon redemption from Rite Aid

Monday 8/21: Happy Solar Eclipse Day!!! I only got these freebies in the mail today.

Nexcare waterproof bandages

Tuesday 8/22: No Freebies

Wednesday 8/23: No freebies

Thursday 8/24: Got another book for the girls collection.

Wings of Fire from Kelloggs Family Rewards

Friday 8/25: Today I got a much anticipated book from Blogging For Books. I have already read it and loved every bit of it. It got me singing the songs non-stop< see that there. ahaha. I made a funny.

Alexander Hamilton Graphic Novel from Blogging For Books

August 28, 2017 issue of Sports Illustrated

September 1, 2017 issue of Entertainment Weekly

Saturday 8/26: The one thing that I was also waiting for was this beauty from BzzAgent. Cayce desperately needs this for the car. And I know he will be a great help to this mission.

Glade Car Plugins "New Car Scent"

School Week 2 Photos

We are done with 2 weeks. 10 days down, 170 more to go. This week didn't go as smooth and as fast as the first week, but it was still a great week. It stated with the best event of our lives. Sammy and Ariana got to see their first Solar Eclipse. It was also my first one and it was the most incredible thing. Cayce had the day off from work. The rest of the week was ok, but very exhausting. This weekend has been a relaxing one and that is why this post is going up so late.

*UPDATE* As I am writing this, I have just found out that one of my oldest friends from school was killed early this morning by a drunk driver. I don't know how much detail I will be going into, so if this post seems like shit, I am grieving the lost of one of my oldest friends.

Monday: Solar Eclipse Day! We had a early morning but not quite as early as the end of last week. We were constantly checking live streams all day of cities in the path of totality for the Solar Eclipse. We were also in the path of totality but we didn't see anything until around 2:30 when it started getting dark outside.

one of the many youtube live streams

doing quiet time while looking at her Space book

Tuesday: It was another early morning. Sammy got up and started working on her typing lessons. She and Ariana then did a freewrite while Addy started her day. Addy watched three leapfrog videos on Netflix about the alphabet, phonics and numbers. She enjoyed them and she will be re-watching them throughout the next couple of months.

After their freewrites, they drew their own pictures imagining if a penguin lived in our refrigerator like Caption Cook and Greta in Mr. Popper's Penguins.

The best part of the day

Wednesday: Addy had another speech appointment this morning. Sammy and Ariana started a little later than I would have liked but they all ended their day at the same time. Once again, Addy shut down again in speech. I started Ariana and Sammy off together with history. I had them take Jenga blocks and build their own Fort Necessity.

After they built it, they watched a couple more of YouTube videos on Fort Necessity and then Sammy worked on Easy Peasy while Ariana did quiet time and read.

When Addy got back home, I had her do some pages in her cutting workbook and then she did her own little quiet time for about 20 minutes.

Ariana working on her Easy Peasy work

They ended the day with re-watching Bill Nye the Science Guy, and listening to me read more Astrotwins out loud.

Thursday: Another early morning for Sammy. She worked on Easy Peasy and did some more typing. Then it was Ariana's turn for Easy Peasy and Sammy worked on her challenge words.

Addy started her day off with watching 4 episodes of Little Einsteins. Sammy and Airy both watched during their Kindergarten year, so it's only fair to let Addy do the same. She then had her turn doing Easy Peasy.

Sammy started her definition work on her challenge words. She is getting the hang of looking up the words.

Addy is learning about the letter B, and her animal of the week is a bee. So after Addy finished her Easy Peasy Work, I decided to let them watch some YouTube on the honey bees.

We finished the day with reading more of Astrotwins.

Friday: We had a late start to the morning. The night before I was exhausted and I had taken some of my beauty sleep gummies and I went to bed around 9:30. I woke up at 10am the next morning. It was some of the best sleep I have had in a while. To start the day, I put in Bee Movie and they watched that while eating breakfast. After the movie, they did their morning work. Sammy had to finish her vocab definitions, Ariana did some reading to herself. Addy worked on Easy Peasy.

Addy had another shutdown in the middle of the day, so we read till the end of the school day.