"Our Family Pilgrimage"

We have been studying about pilgrims from England & Holland since the start of the school year and they just landed at Plymouth last week. So, we decided our family would journey into living like Pilgrims for the month of November - ending at Thanksgiving. Due to Corban having ear surgery, our start date got postponed until this past Sunday. This ends our first week! We have had so much fun. Brandon and I call it our journey to simplicity! We started our journey on the large rug in our living room acting as the Mayflower. Noone could leave that rug and each person only got to bring 2 items for our 1hr journey. It was quite the stormy adventure as the Mayflower was quickly transformed into a Wrestlemania cruise!. Oh Well! Our TV's have pictures taped to the front that the boys drew (yep, no TV!), our microwave broke right before this all started so we're just waiting to get a new one (it's amazing how good quick food taste in the oven), no computer time or leapsters for the boys (Brandon's job as a software engineer makes him exempt and I always have my excuses to use the computer - hey, I just got my own personal 19" laptop and it needs breaking in, right?), I'm making most things by scratch (yummmy indian corncakes!), we've washed a load of laundry in buckets in our backyard (that's just a 1 time thing!), we made cornmeal playdough (the pilgrims didn't have flour when they arrived), we've built pilgrim houses with oil papered windows, made Indian headresses and a kid-sized wigwam (TeePee) - OH, and all their toys have been removed from their room! (well, except their wooden tinker set and a few lego's). Corban was exempt from the toy removal for obvious reasons! Stay tuned to our next weeks adventures in Plymouth! Should prove to be even more challenging and fun than this one!