Raising My Boys In The Country: Happy Valentine's Day!

I wish I could show you the dvd that my 11 year old son made me for Valentine's Day!! It is so clever that the file format is too big to bring up on the file.

What I love about homeschooling are the opportunities! When they are home all day there are moments, and hours to do things that would have to be squeezed into the evening if they were in public school.

This Valentine's Day, our 11 year old C. said that he had a project that he wanted to make on the computer. I knew it was a secret from the way they were so careful when I came into the room.

Watching Big Brother Create a DVD

It was wonderful to watch the boys put it together. Big brother, Colt, was in the office doing his schoolwork, but every so often his expertise would be needed as one of the boys would ask him how to spell as word.

Spelling Help

The little ones would be seen running upstairs with my camera. Their big brother, Dane, was the photographer.

Photographer

Other times, I would come upstairs to hear hushed whispers and doors quickly closing, to be sure I didn't see what they were doing.

Love Heart

See the hearts they created in between their bodies with their arms and hands.

Once before my son had done the same thing. He has created a dvd for his brother's birthday and done a remarkable job. This time, we had a new computer and he had not even used it before, plus he had my camera and he had never uploaded pictures before. Well obviously he figured it out pretty well!! He did a remarkable job creating this video. I was truly amazed at what they accomplished as a little unified team, with an 11 year old leader! I wish I could show it, but the file is too big to upload. It was wonderful with special effects and music and all the pictures that I have shown on this blog.

This is Cassidy's cast:

Cooper

Briton

Austin

And the Director

Cassidy took a picture of his own face, hence the close up. *smile*

While this was going on, the boys had fun writing their Valentine's cards. They each took their supplies and sneaked off to their own little corner to create their special cards. Then one by one they slipped them into the slots of their brothers mailboxes.

Being in school I remember Valentines Day as being a day of getting cards from lots of little friends, but once we hit highschool it became a day of 'who had a girl/boyfriend' and who didn't. I remember Colt's first week of school last year. He quickly had girls liking him and the poor boy! The first week of school and he was already getting pressure from girls that a certain girl liked him and he would just 'have' to buy her a rose from the stand where they were selling them. Talk about welcome to the system! It was so nice in our house this year. Everyone making cards and creating surprises and totally a day about loving each other.

Ray brought me a box of chocolates, a red rose, and a nice card. He signed it to the effect of "Ray and Justine Plus Six and More." *grin* - who knows how many 'more'!! I bought Ray two cards - one funny, one sweet, and a box of chocolates.

Our little sentimental son, Cassidy, the one who likes to make birthday parties, (and dvds) made sure to buy his dad some chocolates to go along with my dvd. He also made an envelope for all the cards he made for the family as a whole.

Briton Signing His Fingerpainted Cards With Mum

Delivering His Cards.

Having Fun Making His Deliveries

Briton had a wonderful time delivering his Valentines. He had a terrible time keeping his little mitts out of the envelopes once they were delivered!!! *smile*