On Saturday my family celebrated the 90th birthday of my Aunt Loretta, who is a Dominican Sister of Peace. We are so thankful for the inspiration she is to us. We gathered at the Motherhouse for a party. Here she is with my boys and their cousins:
After the party, lots of us came back to our house for a pizza party. We called some of our homeschool friends to come over and join us.
What do you think could possibly have held the attention of all these kids? We've NEVER seen them this focused and this quiet!
They were watching and listening to......
THE BUBBLE LADY!!!!
You may remember my mom's cousin Marge, the Bubble Lady, from this post. Well, she (and her awesome brother Jerry) came all the way from Maryland for Aunt Loretta's birthday party. She brought her bubble stuff, of course, and she put on a great show for us! Unfortunately, because it was so windy outside, she had to do bubbles in my living room. But that didn't slow her down much at all! And, amazingly, there wasn't even much mess on my carpet. (It's probably cleaner now from the soap, right?)
After "sliming" a few kids with giant bubbles popping on their heads, she taught us all some Science lessons. Margie is a former teacher and she loves weaving lessons in with crazy fun. (I guess we can check Science off the lesson plan list for this week!) The lessons were mainly about chemical reactions. She put dry ice in a jar and then put a tube coming from the jar into her bubble solution. The result..... smoke bubbles! The kids (and adults) were absolutely mesmerized. I loved watching the kids' reactions to each different experiment.
Here's a SQUARE smoke bubble!
Here's Ray holding a smoke bubble in his hands!
I wish I had gotten a picture of the older boys (and Jon) at the kitchen sink after the bubble show. They had a BLAST watching the dry ice make cascades of "smoke" pour out of the sink. None of us could believe how long it lasted.
I was laughing as I lay in bed last night thinking of the crazy chaos of the evening. We had 34 people here. 9 pizzas. Toys strewn everywhere around the house. We had a GREAT time! No electronics! No TV. Just fun. The boys collapsed into bed and were asleep in an instant. It's awesome to have family and friends to play and learn with like this. Thank you, God, for crazy chaos... for friends and family... for good old-fashioned fun!
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