School Week 16 Photos

I know this post is 2 pr 3 weeks late, but I have been a busy bee. I am going to be catching up this weekend, so expect week 17 tomorrow and week 18 on Sunday. This was a very productive week for us after our Thanksgiving break and we are working extremely hard to get more done before we have our Christmas break.

Monday 11/27:To start the week off right, I got all three of them started before 8AM. We got our morning work done and then we started a new Netflix show that we found the night before called Life and we watched the first two episodes of that. It was very informative. After, I had Addy start her Easy Peasy lessons and Sammy and Airy had a freewrite time. I had them write about what they watched.

Addy worked on her kangaroo craft for the longest time and I had Sammy start her Easy Peasy after she finished her free write and Ariana had some reading time. Addy also worked on her writing after she finished her kangaroo.

spelling worksheet

We finished the day around 2PM and it was a long and productive one. We started our new science lesson on the human body and important organs

Tuesday: Today we had a very late start. I woke up super late because I had a horrible night being sick. We watched more of Life on Netflix and Sammy and Airy had reading time together while Addy worked on Easy Peasy.

We finished the day with watching more of Liberty's Kids and we talked about the episodes the rest of the night. The girls love this show and I would like if there were more like this but in different time periods.

Wednesday: Not many pictures today, but we did have another early start but not as early. Addy started her day with Super Why while Sam did Easy Peasy and Ariana read to me. After an hour they switched and Sammy got to read to me. She is still a struggling reader somewhat, but she is slowly getting better.

We ended the day with watching YouTube videos on the human brain and then two more episodes of Liberty's Kids.

Thursday: We started the day with two more episode of Life then we did morning work. Ariana did a free write while Samantha did vocab words and Addy had some quiet time to herself to look at books with me. After an hour, they watched two more episodes of Liberty's Kids.

After, they worked on brain worksheets, and then we ended our day with focusing on the lungs and watching more YouTube videos on the lungs. Also, the lungs always trigger a type of sadness in me because I always think of Adalyn because 6 hours after she was born, both of her lungs collapsed and she needed a chest tube implanted and she has a scar under her armpit now that will be moving throughout her life.  We ended the day with reading a magic school bus book that I got for free from Kellogg's Family Rewards.

Friday: We had another late start to end our week. We finished the Life documentary. Sam and Airy had reading time together and Addy  worked on Easy Peasy lessons. After an hour of reading for Sam and Airy, I had Ariana work on her Reading Eggs math seeds while I had Sam do workbook pages. Addy worked on a leopard craft during this time.

They once again ended their day with watching Liberty's Kids.

Freebie Haul 12/4- 12/9

I did plan to have this post up last night, but I had other things come up. I had a good freebie week. Got a lot of goodies that warrants it own post for the week. It was another magazine heavy week right at the end but like I say every time... good reading material for doing errands if it requires a long wait time and also school projects.

Monday: Starting the week off with a freebie for Addy and another book for muah!

GUM monsterz toothbrush

Goodreads giveaway win: The Hazel Wood

Tuesday: It was a book and magazine day. Giveaway win and review copy for Blogging For Books

Blogging for Books Review Copy: American Wolf: A True Story Of Survival 

and Obsession In The West

Goodreads Giveaway Win: Dunbar

December 2017- January 2018 issue of Golf Digest 

December 2017 issue of Travel + Leisure

Wednesday: It was a lonely magazine kind of day

January 2018 issue of Glamour

Thursday: Another magazine

December 11, 2017 issue of Sports Illustrated

Friday: Got another magazine and the cover is super cool.

December 15-22, 2017 issue of Entertainment Weekly

Saturday: No Freebies

Review: American Wolf by Nate Blakeslee

About the Book: The enthralling story of the rise and reign of O-Six, the celebrated Yellowstone wolf, and the people who loved or feared her
 
Before men ruled the earth, there were wolves. Once abundant in North America, these majestic creatures were hunted to near extinction in the lower 48 states by the 1920s. But in recent decades, conservationists have brought wolves back to the Rockies, igniting a battle over the very soul of the West.

With novelistic detail, Nate Blakeslee tells the gripping story of one of these wolves, O-Six, a charismatic alpha female named for the year of her birth. Uncommonly powerful, with gray fur and faint black ovals around each eye, O-Six is a kind and merciful leader, a fiercely intelligent fighter, and a doting mother. She is beloved by wolf watchers, particularly renowned naturalist Rick McIntyre, and becomes something of a social media star, with followers around the world.

My Thoughts: I have always been fascinated by wolves, and I remember hearing about this wolf when she was killed. I didn't really get into her story as to why she was famous, but reading this book, it has opened my eyes as to why she was a rare and great wolf. O-Six lived in Yellowstone in the Lamar Valley and she was an alpha female that had a total of 3 litters of pups. She wasn't always an alpha. Her watchers and scientists couldn't figure out why she would mate with males and then leave to go to another pack. They had pretty strong opinions that she would not last throughout the winter. 

About the Author: NATE BLAKESLEE is a writer-at-large for Texas Monthly. His first book, Tulia, was a finalist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award and won the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, the Texas Institute of Letters non-fiction prize, and was named a New York Times Notable Book of 2005. The Washington Post called it one of the most important books about wrongful convictions ever written. He lives in Austin, Texas with his family.

I received this book from Blogging for Books for this review.

Freebie Haul 11/20- 12/2

Seems like the only freebies I am getting now a days are magazines and there are a shit ton in this post. They are all being read and looked at. They are being cut up and used in school assignments and they are being recycled. Don't worry, I am doing my part to teach my hellions that this Earth is going to shit and to keep it from going even more down hill, they need to take care of their trash.

Monday 11/20: Started the week off from a freebie from Elle Magazine. It  was shampoo and conditioner and the conditioner about gave me a heart attack when I first used the nozzle in the shower.

Goldwell Kerasilk Repower Shampoo and Conditioner

Tuesday 11/21: No Freebies

Wednesday 11/22: No Freebies

Thursday 11/23: No Mail. HAPPY THANKSGIVING

Friday 11/24: The magazine madness began on this day and it started a chain reaction that lasted until the next week.

December 1, 2017 issue of Entertainment Weekly

December 2017 issue of Vogue

December 2017/ January 2018 issue of Redbook and Bed, Bath, and Beyond coupon

Saturday 11/25: More magazines!!!!!

Holiday 2017 issue of Marie Claire

December 2017/ January 2018 issue of Harper's Bazaar

Monday 11/27: Missy got something special for her stocking!!!!

Muse by Purina dry and wet cat food

Tuesday 11/28: NO Freebies

Wednesday 11/29: My sample source box came today and I was not impressed. These are the only two samples I got.

RePHresh gel and Clairol Root Touch Up Coupon

Thursday: 11/30: The magazines make another appearance.

December 4, 2017 issue of Sports Illustrated

Friday 12/1: Two more magazines showed up in my mailbox and I felt very suffocated by the amount of inked paper I received in the past two weeks.

Golf Week's Ultimate Guide

December 8, 2017 issue of Entertainment Weekly.

Saturday 12/2: No Freebies

There are the spoils of my freebie collecting from the last two weeks. I haven't gotten much this weeks except more magazines. So the next two weeks might be another double post.

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Review: The Breathless by Tara Goedjen

About the Book: For fans of the dark family secrets of We Were Liars and the page-turning suspense of The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer, The Breathless is a haunting tale of deeply buried secrets, forbidden love, and how far some will go to bring back what’s long dead. 

    No one knows what really happened on the beach where Roxanne Cole’s body was found, but her boyfriend, Cage, took off that night and hasn’t been seen since. Until now. One year—almost to the day—from Ro’s death, when he knocks on the door of Blue Gate Manor and asks where she is.
   Cage has no memory of the past twelve months. According to him, Ro was alive only the day before. Ro’s sister Mae wouldn’t believe him, except that something’s not right. Nothing’s been right in the house since Ro died.

My Thoughts:  I really enjoyed this book. It was thrilling and suspenseful and right up my alley. I live in the south and I have always had a love for the old creepy plantations and deep south culture. Once I read that this book was set in Louisiana, my mind went straight for the voodoo-hoodoo thoughts. It also reminded me a lot about the movie The Skeleton Key with Kate Hudson and how she was caring for an old man in a wheelchair and he couldn't speak the same way as the grandfather in this novel. I really enjoyed the book for these aspects alone.

About the Author: Tara Goedjen has a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Alabama and grew up in the South. The Breathless is her debut novel. She lives and writes in Monterey, California. To find out more about Tara and her novel, follow @TaraGoedjen on Twitter.

I received this book from Blogging for Books for this review.

December TBR

Here is my TBR for this month. I have been planning on starting and finishing this series this month since I started picking out books for certain months and I had to complete this goal for myself. Here is my final TBR for 2017.

It is somewhat ambitious for such a busy month coming up, but I will be getting some reading done this weekend while Cayce takes the girls to their events. I am hoping to finish reading The Great Gatsby on New Years Eve morning. And the cover for the book that is shown, I have this cover. I got it on Amazon. Type in the title of the book along with the word evergreens and you get sent straight to the listing.