Obstacles in Life

Today was the start of a new homeschool week and of course it began with a doctor's visit. My Katie had to get a staple out of her head, I had to get a new epi-pen for the youngest and had to make appointments for other children and now myself. Yesterday I jumped down out of the van and my knee decided to go. Oh great...now I have to go back and probably get an MRI. Quite a few months ago I was diagnosed with degenerative arthritis so there is definitely a problem starting there. I feel I have no time for this. A mom is not to get sick or hurt. Can my home run with me down and out? hmmm....I do like the idea of being waited on...cappuccino's from Wawa, and not having to do dishes or laundry. I guess we'll take it day by day and see what happens.
Back to homeschooling. I would like to recommended two series that we have enjoyed. The Mr. Pipes Series by Douglas Bond. We have read 3 out of 4 books and have enjoyed them so much. My son is now reading (independently) The Terrestria Chronicles (very christian)~ by Ed Dunlop...excellent. He just now finished #4 and can't wait for the next. I do believe there are 7 books in the series. This now has a study guide to go with it (Ed bought it for him the other night at church) and we will be going over it soon. It has questions to answer and crafts etc....I would like to make a paper mache' dragon or serpent with Tom.
My daughter is reading everything. She doesn't like to "do textbooks" but loves books. She is reading, To Be a Doctor, Lady of Palenque: Flower of Bacal Meso America AD 749, Francis and Edith Schaffer, Bruchko (19 yr. old American Christian, Christianizing the stone age tribe), A Sparrow Alone, Johnstown Flood, and Writing From A to Z (English) AND, A Young Woman's Walk with God: Growing More Like Jesus. Whew! She is also trying to write a report about Embryonal Rhabdomyosarcoma (Tumor/Cancer). Now if we can just pronounce this we'll be good. ~smile~ The reason why she wants to write about this is that a little girl (Gracie) we know and love has this. By the way, I saw her yesterday and she was running around and enjoy life as we all should. Nothing seems to get in her way.
I would also like to recommend a cd....Creator of it All by The Steve Pettit Evangelistic Team. It is excellent...
Hopefully I can soon figure out how to link to other sites on the internet so you can just click to my recommendations. I am also trying to figure out how to get a slide show on here (it's not working....). I'd like to show some lapbooks.
P.S. I'm not much of a writer so we will see how this blogging goes. ~smile~