he's finished!

I am SO proud of Levi. All in all, his sick day hasn't been very bad. He's kept busy with his bear most of the time and was determined to finish it before his daddy and brothers got home. He looks at the pictures we took of the pattern and pieces of felt and remarks that he can't believe he did this all by himself. It's been a good day. When his fingers would get tired of pushing the needle through the felt, he sat on the couch absorbed in the new seed catalog we got in the mail today from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds.

felt teddy bear

Levi hasn't been feeling so well since yesterday. He spent most of his time laying on the couch looking at books and watching nature videos. I decided last night that if he was still down, I would give him a project to do. He loves to sew:



We found the idea and pattern to make it at Hearts and Trees. I will post a picture of his completed bear later. :)

He took a break for awhile and helped me to make more crackers to put in the dehydrator. This time we made sprouted wheat with onion and chives and also sprouted wheat with caraway seeds. I'm looking forward to the onion and chives crackers with some sunflower seed sour cream!

busy week

We've had a busy week with school... we seemed to have more projects than usual. Also, I've been experimenting in the kitchen with some raw food recipes from Rejuvenate Your Life by Serene Allison. We made some Italian Flaxseed crackers in the dehydrator and they were a big hit. We also made some raw pate' recipes: Mexican Chereezo Stuffer and Zinc Veggie Nut stuffer which are very good on the crackers or with corn chips. I wish I had photos to share. It made an attractive and colorful meal. I had a whole bunch of sprouted soft wheat that needed used up so we made crackers out of that too. I tried some in the oven and some in the dehydrator. I was surprised that we all preferred the dehydrated crackers over the oven ones. More raw, so that is good. I never expected them to be so crispy and cracker-like. They really are delicious!

God's goodness has been so very evident this week. We have heard and seen prayers answered for family and friends who have trusted in Him and believed that His timing is best.

window stars

My first Sew Crafty Friday! I've been doing a few crafty things here and there but haven't ever taken the time to share. This one is so fun so I thought I would post about it.


When we first started, we practiced on regular wax paper. Those turned out nice...sort of like snowflakes. Once we had the basic folds down we tried it out on the special colored paper.

We hung them on the windows in our dining room. We have bird feeders outside so we can watch the birds while we eat, but once in awhile they fly into the windows. Since the stars have been up they haven't hit the windows anymore.



We purchased the kit at Hearthsong.

If you would like to participate in Sew Crafty Friday or even just to see what others are working on, you can go here to Shereen's blog.

the Treehouse

Now I'm not talking about the "Family Treehouse" that we started last year...this is Levi's own treehouse that he built with Drew during their father/son week. We will be working on our big treehouse again this week. The camera I used in the beginning construction stage didn't take the best photos so I'll start here with the better photos:


The posts are in and the platform is in place and secured.



Next, the walls go up.

Here they are cutting the OSB for the roof.


Levi handing a section of the roof up to Drew from the deck of the scaffolding.

As soon as the rain and clouds go away I will go out and take some photos of the (almost) finished treehouse. They have the sides on, the shingles on and now all he needs is a door and windows.

Firewood

Something else that Silas wanted to do on his father/son time was to get firewood.


Last year we had some of our acreage logged which left us with an abundance of firewood and a lot of tree tops and brush to clean up. In three days they were able to get several cords cut, hauled to the house and stacked. They kept the brush piles burning too and the woods is really shaping up. In North Idaho we burned a lot of firewood and we always had so much fun getting it. Here in Missouri, we won't need nearly as much but they still had a lot of fun.