Roots, Wings and Things: I just love it when (not my) plan comes together

Last week O and C had mini reports to write in history. They just luh-huh-huv to write reports! SO they each chose a person whom we had recently studied. C chose Susan B. Anthony and O chose Sam Houston. He really loves Texas history and gets excited about any study of the Alamo (must be his Texas birth or something ;-}). Anyway, they researched, whined, and researched and whined, drafted, proofread, and whined...you get the idea. I wasn't sure they learned a thing! Since O works fairly independently, I knew very little of the information he collected. The reports were completed and handed over to me, Thursday afternoon...Hallelujah!! I decided to grade them later as we had a very busy weekend on hand.

Now lest you think, I'm a rock on teacher mama...let me just tell you how God makes me look goooood!

We have sweet friends who got married in Houston this weekend, and Tony officiated the ceremony. We left for Houston Friday morning all excited. I have been in Texas for almost 14 years and other than driving through Houston East to West (from MS), I have not been to Houston...certainly not driving South on I45...until Friday. The kids crashed out and napped. When we got to Huntsville, I was carried away thinking about the penitentiary etc. Then we embarked upon a MONSTROSITY of a monument of who but SAM HOUSTON! and O was snoozing in the back seat!

SO today when we traveled back North we stopped and visited old Sam! And now we have actual photos to accompany our report. O is pumped about his photos, and I look like a savvy, expert planning homeschooling mom...Thank you, God!