12 Days of Christmas! Day 8: Caroling at the Nursing Home!

Today, I woke up around 8:30 and I did my journal for yesterday. Later on, I looked online for a gift for our Yankee Swap in January. After a while, um, something. Oh yeah. I bought it. Later we went caroling at a nursing home. We sang songs like Joy to the World and We Wish You a Merry Christmas. I learned a new song, which was The Little Drummer Boy. We got home, and later I showed mom some of the Star Wars Bad Lip Readings. Later (My gosh, there are a lot of Laters) I made a video called The Movie Thrown Together in 15 Minutes. Here it is.

After a while (Wow, there are also a lot of After a whiles too!) mom said I should take a break from the computer. I did, and I listened to Star Wars soundtracks on Spotify. And I used the computer a ton today. There were some things that I wanted  to do today, but I was too lazy to do 'em. Goodnight.

On the 8th day of Christmas, these things happened to me: I went caroling at a nursing home, I went to Andrew's party, I saw The Force Awakens again... I WENT CAROLING! I watched The Force Awakens, I went to Wednesday Homegroup, I did Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, and I made Christmas card art with glee!

12 Days of Christmas! Day 1: Christmas Card Art Class!

Guess what! I'm starting a new series on my blog! Technically, it's nothing new, because I've done it before a couple years ago on my old, outdated blog but it's new on here! For 12 days from December 14-25 I am posting public journals with pictures on this blog! One big difference with this and the one I did a couple years ago was that the old one was littered with Youtube videos of what I watched or played. And this won't be. Rather, I'll post pictures of what I watched or played. Enjoy!

Today, I woke up to my 3DS alarm at 8:30, and hit the snooze button multiple times. I got up around 9:15. It started as an average school day, where I started out with silent reading, which was chapters 3-4 of Star Wars: Queen of the Empire by Paul Davis and Hollis Davis. Those chapters were interesting and funny. After that, I ate a couple snacks, and I did my Bible reading, which was Hebrews 12-13 and Jude. Those chapters were interesting and healthy. After that, I did my math.

And while I was doing math, I ate lunch, which was Ramen soup. Mom told me at around 3:15 we were leaving to the library before we go to the church for a special art class session for making Christmas cards. So at 2 PM I had an hour and 15 minutes to finish school. I started out with doing more of my rough draft for a report on the Pearl Harbor attack. Next, I did my Language Arts, which was finishing a chapter of The Hiding Place, answering questions on it, taking vocabulary from it, and other stuff. But I got a headache, so I took a shower and I couldn't finish it. We also couldn't go to the library before the art class. We went to the church, and the art class was fresh and fun! We did things like rolling paint on a board then printing it on paper, and doing the same with a gel board! Here are the ones I made. 

After that, we went to Subway and Sophie and mom had dinner from there while I had Chunky Soup for dinner. Throughout the day I played the video games Pokémon Ruby, Super Smash Bros 3DS and Splatoon. The game I most played was Smash 3DS, where I beat Classic Mode on the highest difficulty for the second time ever! After I wrote these words, we played a special game where we each pick a book and take turns taking sentences from them and putting them into a silly story. Here's the one we did today:

There was once a little girl named Mary. They both lay back on the steps.After talking for a few minutes, I said, "Tom, you obviously run a pretty good business." "Oh, no!" There were some sounds that slowly faded away. Once the kids were back in the car, they all started chanting, "McDonalds! McDonalds!" Then John saw something. Right then, though he really wasn't being careful; he just wanted the guys to agree with him. You'll find some terrific deals at estate sales and auctions but you have to be careful. All this time Grandmother was busy. If you think Chris and Willy should leave and come back some other time, turn to page 8. Also, if you;re sitting in a big mess right now and simply cannot afford to make even the minimum payments on your debt, don't lose hope! Mary lay in bed and didn't have to do a thing. Christ took a deep breath. "Gotta buy a house! Gotta buy a house! Mary is getting a little stronger every day," he said.

Taken from the books Busy Times, The Hidden Staircase, and Dave Ramsey's Complete Guide to Money.

What did you think? Crazy, huh? Well, we had fun. Mom said it was her least favorite of the ones we did, but it was still funny. I found out that Facebook is doing a special thing where you take your profile picture and put a lightsaber in it to show that you are a true Star Wars fan. Coincidently, I already had a profile pic that had me covering my right eye with a Subway glowstick lightsaber, so that fit perfectly.

 

After that, I worked on my video My Top 6 Favorite Star Wars Movies, which I'm hoping to upload to Youtube tomorrow. And it's getting late now, so I should get to bed. Goodnight.

On the first day of Christmas, this thing happened to me: I made Christmas card art with glee.

The Lawn Mowing Job!

(This is LOOONG overdue. I was lazy, and afterwards I couldn't think of anything worth posting) I've had a lot of paid jobs over the years. From under a dollar for household chores a week to watering plants for $10 a week. In February we moved over to where my grandparents live, and in June my grandpa bought a lawn mower. So I started mowing! Every week on Mondays (Well, most of the time. If the weather cooperates, or I'm not busy) I get outside and I mow the backyard. It's a little bit tricky but it's worth it.

And I get paid $10! Yeah! But this is not the only lawn I mow. My dad has me mow his lawn every week, too. So a lot of money in a week! What do I use it on? If you know me you'll know... Pokemon games! I finished my collection a while ago. Here's (mostly) what I used my money on

Also, I spent a lot of it on snacks and candy... XD I am saving up for Sonic Gems Collection and then a 3DS XL. So yeah! I got a nice job. And that's what I can think of for blogging. Good night!

See Science Museum!

(Wow, this blog went from weekly to once in a while!) So today we went to the See Science Museum with some friends! This is a fun place with interactive science exhibits, and I see mostly young kids here. Here are some highlights.

There was a huge LEGO display of the town here of how it was in the 1900's! Isn't it amazing what Master Builders can do?

Next, here is a room of three mirrors in a triangle. What does that mean? You can look at a ton of your reflections! 

Next, a plasma ball. Doesn't it look so surreal? Plus, its streams go to your hands if you touch 'em to it. Then, I decided to touch my mouth, tongue and forehead to it. Don't ever try that, kids! 

And last but not least, a ball-floating thing. Except me and a friend decided to abuse this by blowing in our faces and shirts. LOL

Well,we had a fun time here. See you next post!

The Science Fair!

(Sorry about my long absence. For one thing, the computer wasn't working. Another thing was I was like "Nah, not gonna write about Superbowl") So for a while my sister had been working on a science project. It was about whether hamsters and rabbits had good memory or not. So she and her friend made a maze with food at the end. And that project was for a science fair that was going on at the church. Yesterday we went there and there were a lot of interesting things! Like for example there was an exhibit on Alexander Gram Bell that had a few of those homemade cup-and-string phones. The kid who worked on it let me try them out and what I said through it was "This is the CIA. You owe us money." LOL. They had us vote on which was the best exhibit and I voted for a volcano display! So after that there was a bunch of speeches. One of them was a comedy speech about how grown-ups make these rules for different reasons than they tell us. For example, "They say you should eat lots of vegetables because they're healthy. But the real reason is to keep them under control. They were monstrous and ate us in prehistoric times!" LOL. So yeah, it was great at the science fair. Here are some pics. 

Well, see you next post! 

The Christmas Gift-Making Workshop!

So I had to get up early today... To go to this homeschool group event! So we went to this event where we made some Christmas crafts like cinnamon coffee powder, marshmallow snowmen, scarfs, picture frames (what mom set up), and other stuff. I made little bags of candy and big snowflakes! (or stars?) The snowflakes are a little harder to do though. Well, I had a fun time there, and Sophie made a lot more stuff than I did!

The place

 Step 1 of making snowflakes

 Step 2 of making snowflakes

 Snowflake complete!

 

Mom's pictureframe setup

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