26 YEARS

HAPPY 26TH ANNIVERSARY, ED....LOVE YOU!

I had a very nice compliment from my friend. She said there is no way I look like I've been married for 26 years. She said I look to young. Oh Yeah! I hope it's like that for a long time. ~smile~

Prayer Needed For My Friend

Please pray for my friend Karen and her little girl Ella. Ella was being transferred to CHOP this evening with a possible appendicitis. She is 2. I was with them for a little while tonight and I got to rub Ella's feet. She loves that. She's also a budding photographer. She likes to take pictures with her mom's digital camera. She does a pretty good job for a 2 year old! Also, Karen's had a rough week. Her 1st and 2nd children were also in the ER this week. Thankfully #3 is ok.
Thanks everyone for the prayers.

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Grand Prix

Today is the Grand Prix Bicycle Race in our town. When the race started many racers fell. I do believe they had to start it over.

Here are a few pics. of the girls and daddy. I'm going to try and get some pics. of the race itself in a little while.

4th Day of School

Today was off. Wow! Ben had to go into work. They then changed his time and the kids work never got done in the morning. When the afternoon came, Tom did some work; listened to SOTW 1 and read some of SOTW 2. We are still working on 2. Yes, we're slow and that's ok. He loves his history.

Katie worked on phonics. Her head was in the clouds today. She was not getting it. It didn't help that it's a very rainy, windy, cold day today. The kids always act up on a day like this.

Katie and Ana did do their world lapbook but they were very "antsy".

Tonight Ben and Becca will start volleyball. They will definitely enjoy this.

On a sad note, we had a bird's nest in our front tree. It was really nice hearing the babes chirping. When we went out to take Ben to work there was a poor little baby bird dead on the sidewalk. It was so sad! The nest fell out because of the wind. I know I had heard more than one baby so I guess I should check to see if there is another in the branches. I don't believe they were old enough to fly.

My computer went down since I had started writing this. Now I'm on the other computer which never works well. I'm not going to worry about it. The only thing is I can't get my pictures off (or put pictures on here) and can't make any lapbook stuff. I told Tom that he will have to do his lapbooking the old fashioned way...by writing the booklet headings himself! It will still be fun.

While my computer was going haywire I went into the kitchen and fried some chicken for dinner. Everyone loves this! I made it with sorghum and coconut flours. Yum!

Have a good night.

3rd Day of School

Today was interesting. We were off schedule because of doctor appts. this morning. I try to make them later in the day but this time they wouldn't do it. Unfortunately, my grocery shopping didn't happen until later this afternoon and boy (or should I say "GIRLS"), were they bad. They were so wild in the grocery store that one lady asked me if they were always like that. She said she couldn't believe it. I was going to say that they were so bad and that they were the neighbor kids but I couldn't do it. ~smile~ I believe they were that way because it was almost dinner time and we had not eaten anything for quite awhile.
I can't wait to get to bed and to start over tomorrow.
Have a good night.

2nd Day of School

Today was a little rough. We did our usual routine, go to the local church which has a hugh play area and cafe'. We only stayed about 1 1/2 hr. (which by the way, is very short for us). There are many kids there that the kids play with and I always meet a few women there. We chat and the kids have a great time. Well, afterwards, Katie seemed very off. She wouldn't sit and she was very defiant.
I did threaten to send her to school, but all that does is get myself upset. It doesn't bother her in the least. I'm thinking of changing our schedule for that day. Probably going to the cafe' later in the day. This way we can be relaxed for schoolwork first thing in the morning.

I took Tom to his first day of choir, and started to talk to one of the moms. She was very encouraging to me. By the time Tom was back home Katie seemed better. I got out the world map lapbook that the girls will be doing and she and Ana worked on that. They colored, learned about the continents,oceans (which Katie remembered from last school year), and they both remembered the compass rose. We read a little from the Abeka 'America, Our Great Country' LARGE book and then we sat and put together some sticker dolls from around the world. (this is listed on my Loving Life Lapbooks blog)

I have to get some type of Bible together for them. This is being neglected which isn't good.

Now it is extremely quiet. Ana is actually under her homeschool table (LOL!!)and is still putting together the sticker dolls. Katie is playing up in her room, Tom's playing in his room, Ben was working out and Becca is sitting here bothering me. ~smile~

Last night I started to attend a bible study with a few friends. It is the Beth Moore "Esther, It's Tough Being A Woman" study. It is really good. I have never heard of her and I understand she has alot to offer.

We are sitting here waiting for Ed to get home. He will be bringing home pizza and fries!

First Day of School

Here are two pictures of Katie and Ana putting togethe their "Mr. Gallonman".

Mini Office

I wasn't going to make mini offices but changed my mind on Saturday. These are pictures of what they look like. Nothing special but it will do for the two little ones. They are going to do a calendar everyday. So I put velcro on the number boxes and they can place the number on every day. The month can be changed also. I have a pocket holding the month signs. The calendar numbers are in a plastic bag for now. I haven't figured out how I want to store them in the folder. They have skip counting on the left and a hundred chart on the right. There are number signs also. The top (with the money signs) flips down and the bottom (with the calendar) flips up.

Below are the addition and subtraction charts along with Mr. Gallon. They will probably be making a Mr. Gallon on our first day tomorrow.

Why did I miss home?

Well, I'm home. And since I walked in the door I've cleaned up: a crooked kitchen table with trash and drywall dust on it, dishes in the dishwasher and in the sink (Becca cleaned this up for me), trash, dog hair, dirty clothes, pillows on the floor, bed unmade, bed pulled out, some electrical outlets pulled out and one very large hole in my kitchen ceiling. Oh, and a large computer desk pulled out with all my homeschooling stuff on the floor. And last but not least, I have not seen my dear husband at all. He left before I got home because "he knew" what I would do when I walked through the door. Soooo, do you think he's coming home tonight?..................OR, do you think he's afraid of facing his dear wife?..........................I wish I could add some of those "smiley faces and not so smiley faces" right now.

I would now like to add, "My oven just bit the dust".

Now, to change the subject:

Here are two movies of the beach. It was very windy and the water was very warm.

On a short vacation

On Monday, 4 of the kids and I went to my mom and dad's place. We went to the beach (to my aunt and uncle's home) yesterday and had a great time. The water was warm, rough, and it was quite windy. We had a geat time though. When I get back home I will post some pics. and try to get the video up of the ocean. My face and neck are sunburned but doesn't really hurt. The kids played so much that I had a hard time getting front pictures of them. They were constantly on the go. Just a little note: I would love to live at the beach. So, if you have a house you want to give up, let me know. Just kidding!!
We will be starting school officially next week. I didn't realized this but for 180 days with holiday vacations they will not finish until June 11th. I'm going to throw in some 1/2 day Saturdays. Actually, when they are on "vacation" I still do require some reading.
We still have to order Ben's math which is Pre-Calculus AND Trigonometry. We are thinking of going with Teaching Textbooks Pre-Cal. and Brigham (sp?) Young University on-line class Trigonometry. If anyone knows of a cheaper 1 credit course of Trigonometry please let me know.
Gotta Go. Just took a look at Katie's back and it looks like she has alot of bug bites. Ouch!!