The week marked one ending and one beginning for our homeschool, as Monday was the last day of this session of co-op and today the kids had some friends over to start a new project. They’re sad that co-op is over (I’m relieved), but they were excited to have their first Project Gingerbread meeting today. They’ve put together a team for the National Gingerbread House Competition, and now my kitchen looks like the Swedish Chef set up shop in there.

In history this week we talked about the German Empire and the Second Reich, and our end-of-week project was to write a couple of fairy tales a la the Brothers Grimm. The kids were supposed to take a story they’ve heard from our family history and give it a fanciful twist. Here’s what they wrote:

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When Mommy and Daddy Got Married

by Pete

Once upon a time, there were a boy and a girl. But there was also a cat! The cat is very important in this story. So are the boy and the girl.

Now, our story begins in high school. The boy and the girl were in high school. One of them had a cat. The cat went to the boy and said, “Meow! Meow!” And so the boy followed the cat. The cat went over Mount Everest, into the deepest darkest cave, out of the deepest darkest cave, and into a house.

It was a nice house with boxes of Nerds everywhere. The girl was there eating Nerds.

The boy said, “Hello.” The girl said, “Hi.” The cat said, “Meow.”

Then the cat went back to Mount Everest.

The boy and the girl fell in love, and they got married.

And the cat lived happily ever after.

The End

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The Story Of Marsha

by Poppy

Once upon a time, there was a boy and a girl who were married. They decided they wanted a cat. So they went to the cat store and looked at the selection. They had to journey through New York and met Dr. Strange. He made a portal for them and then they were outside the cat store. There were exactly 100,000 cats in the store.

The first 20,000 cats they met were not well-mannered. They were very gassy.

The second 20,000 cats they met were too hungry. The boy and girl did not have enough cat food for them.

The third 20,000 cats they met were too ginormous. The boy and girl only had one house, and none of those cats would fit in it.

The fourth 20,000 cats they met were too addicted to television. They did not even notice the boy and girl were there.

The next 19,999 cats they met were too strange. They would only walk on their back legs. (They did buy one for Dr. Strange and took it to his house.)

Finally, they met Cat Number 100,000. She was a dilute tortoiseshell named Princesshead. She did not toot, she was not too hungry, she was just the right size, she only liked the TV program “Cat Food Around the World,” and she walked on all four legs. She was very sweet and soft. They decided to buy her and rename her Marsha.

And the boy and the girl and the dilute tortie lived happily ever after. (And Doctor Strange and his cat went to fight Dormomu and his cat, Dormeowmu.)

The End

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So other than the house becoming a gingerbread construction site, our week was pretty much par for the course? How was your week, school-wise?

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