Cakes? Learning?

Once upon a summer you embark upon a magical adventure that allows you to meet new people and explore new places.... well that wasn't my summer, however I did encounter and develop a relationship with one of our local homeschoolers. She is an Aggie (gotta love her because I'm married to one too!) and she loves Math, cakes, and children! I met her while attending PE classes and her little three would come bounding out of class full of laughter, crying, and talking. What caught my eye to begin with was she reminded me of me! I had three little ones all in a row just like her. I remember the days of all three in a car seat and diapers all at the same time. I remember trying to make sure I had all three in tow wherever I ventured! It was an interesting time and so therefore my compassion toward this mom drew me in! She is sweet, energetic and loves her kids. Her husband is a public educator and she has chosen to stay at home and homeschool (with his hearty approval!). Toward the end of the school year I had chosen our special learning project for the summer, Word Problems! I'm not strong in these and neither were my two daughters. My son was doing well, but all of us could use some tweaking on our skills and so I hired her to tutor us in helping us develop a strategy in doing these word problems. She is great and we have accomplished the goal! Not only does she love math, she loves cakes too and promised the kids that they would create a cake at the end of our summer together. She and I didn't forget, but our schedules just weren't in sync with one other till one day my young dd asked if Mrs. Laurie was going to help them make cakes! I assured her that she would. Little did I know that in the next lesson of Zech and Isabella's History/Geography/Bible curriculum they suggested they make a round cake and draw the continents on them. Also Sarah's curriculum suggested the same for her Egypt study but obviously with an Egypt theme. I contacted her and we set up a time and they had a blast!

Well I can't say more than the pictures above because they did awesome and Laurie did excellent! The blue icing are the oceans, green for the continents, white for the artics, starburst w/ white icing to represent the north pole, and mountains were mini reeses peanut butter cups and candy corn! Egypt sand is crushed graham crackers and the pyramids are starburst cut and built. Way to go Laurie, thanks so very much for sharing your gifts and talents with this family and many more that you've impacted in the Homeschooling community along the way! However one thing to warn you, I'm still eating cake and there is still A LOT more left!