NEED CHANGES

I really need to change this blog. Ed has a friend who does this for his business. We will be talking to him to see if he can help me make this blog more manageable. I have so much to share and so little room. ~smile~

School Today

Katie and Ana did 2 math pages today. Ana did a few letter recognition pages and Katie did a punctuation/capitalization page. They did well. I'm going to make some banana bread and then read 'Leif the Lucky' to them.

Tom is out with Jimmie again. They are still picking corn to take to the local stores to sell. They are coming back with some cucumbers to can and more corn to freeze.

Tomatoes, Shopping, School

Yesterday Jimmie gave us 2 extremely large containers of tomatoes for sauce. Ed and I cut them up last night and cooked them down in two large cooking pots. Since I have to do some things today, our neighbor Lisa, is going to finish the sauce for me. She even gave us the tomato paste. We will freeze this in freezer bags. It smells sooooo good in here. ~smile~

When I did my grocery shopping yesterday, I took Katie with me. We had a great time. She was so good and quiet. We had lunch together and enjoyed each others company. She is a great kid. Of course, she's mine. ~LOL~

After shopping we stopped at the libary and she played for a few minutes. I found some new dvd's for history. Ages 10-14 grades 5-8. New Dimension Media Getting Ahead U.S. History from 1620-1809: Birth of a New Nation; World Geography Canada, Mexico, Brazil, & Peru. They have more. We will see if the girls are interested in them. I'll let you know.
I also got the audiobook American Girl History Mysteries: Trouble at Fort La Pointe 1732. This is for the car. I guess we are now slowly easing into school time. I posted these on the bottom right sidebar. This way I have a list of what has been used from the libaries and others can use this list.

I bought a new printer. It is a Canon MP250. We didn't hook it up yet. I'm just going to use this one for black and white printing. The Epson printer that I have will be put to the side for photos.

Hope you all have a wonderful day. Enjoy the sunshine!
~Margarete~

Not a Good Day

It's starting to rain. Blah. I know we need the rain but it is making me feel ... blah. Katie wanted to go for a bike ride but I really don't feel like getting wet.

I have been trying to print booklets and other items off the web and my printer is out of ink, again. The majority of the printing is done with black and white on economy, gray scale. So, where is all the color going?? This boggles my mind. I changed the yellow not even 2 weeks ago and it says it's empty, the magentas are almost empty. It doesn't make sense. I wonder if the printer is reading something wrong.

Time to switch. I do have 2 other printers here. An HP psc 950, given to us by my mother-in-law. I'm hoping it is compatible with this computer. The other is another HP. When Ed gets home he's going to take a look at this.

This is so frustrating. I have to get done for school. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

If you feel led to pray, pray for Katie. Pray that she will be very interested in the "curriculum" I have planned for her. Pray that she will sit still (meaning she won't wander to another room), and enjoy the books that will be read this year. I will be reading most of them to her and Ana. This way they can sit and color or play at the same time and afterwards do our crafting.

I have to make some apple pies. The only problem is that the large freezer is packed. No more room. That is awesome! I guess we'll just have to eat them tonight. :)

~Margarete~

8/10/10

Today we boiled and bagged almost 300 ears of corn. (Yesterday I baked about 30 loaves of 3 different kinds of zucchini bread).

Our friend Jimmie stayed and helped me along with Tom and Becca. I scrubbed and boiled, they cut and bagged. Tomorrow he will be bringing more.

I can't wait for the apples he said we can have in a few weeks. I'm going to bag up alot of applesauce, apple pie filling, and I would like to try and can some apple rings. We, as in the kids and I, will can apple butter.

Ed and I just started to can. It's not as hard as I thought.

At this moment I have to get the canning supplies ready for the cucumbers , get dinner ready, and soon take Katie to soccer.

Have a fun day!
~Margarete~

Another post for the day

I have been making zucchini bread this morning/afternoon. I've made 9 loaves of choc. chip zucchini bread and have 9 more loaves of blueberry zucchini bread to go into the oven. I still have zucchini left so I think I will make raisin almond zucchini bread. All this will be frozen. I really want to make regular bread but I think we need to rearrange the freezers (and get another). ~smile~

While I was getting the breads ready, Katie and Ana made salads. They learned how to do this yesterday. They do a great job and know how to use the knife correctly. The salads included: lettuce, carrots, tomatoes, peppers, celery, and if you wanted to, you could add some sunflower seed mix on top. Yum!

Have an exciting day!
~Margarete~

Notebooking Page Example

Here is another idea for a notebooking page.

Copy a coloring book page at normal size. This example is from a Williamsburg coloring book. Use an exacto knife to cut around the picture. You could do the whole picture or a little square in the corner or a square in the middle. What ever you prefer. Be sure to leave a good edge around every side.

Put a colored lined notebook page behind the coloring page and glue around the outside. Add any pictures (or not), on the notebook page. Write about the picture.

Another post for the day

Our friend gave us corn so I just finished bagging it. It was about 60 ears.

I'm in trouble. A good trouble, that is. My large freezer and the two freezers over the refrigerators are packed. I told Ed he's going to have to find another one. I still have more bread to make and I wanted to make cookie doughs. I also wanted to start going to the grocery store "early" in the mornings to find marked down meat, especially stew beef.

I have to go, the girls are getting ready for bed....thank goodness. Ed and I are supposed to go out for some dessert tonight. ~smile~

~Margarete~

Today

If you could see Katie right now you would see her sitting in front of the goldfish and tadpole tank getting ready to play, you guessed it, 'Go Fish'!. I'm probably going to give her a math page to do. Hey, if she's sitting still, I might as well get some school work done. ~smile~

I guess I'll tell you, It's my birthday. No, not 50 yet! I wonder if anyone around here will remember. Ed didn't call yet, the 2 little ones don't know, and everyone else is sleeping. HI MOM AND DAD...I know you remember. ~smile~

Love Ya.
~Margarete~

2 new additions to the family

Today we added two new additions to the family....no not children...a goldfish and a tadpole. :) Katie has been asking for a fish so we got her one for her birthday. The tadpole is a gift for me for my bd. ;) Ana was singing to the tadpole earlier. I put the aquarium in the middle of their school table. It should get them sitting there more joyfully.

We went to a church picnic today but unfortunately it rained. Everyone left except us, another couple, and a woman. We talked while the kids played in the rain. They had a blast and we came home with alot of food.

Tom and I had gone for a bike ride earlier. I keep asking Ed to look at this bike. I feel like it is dragging. It seems like I'm peddling for ever. I think the gears are not working correctly. I guess that's ok for $8.00. It gets me exercising and some quite time.

I cannot wait for school to start. I'm almost done getting my copying done. We still need to order some curriculum. I'm waiting....

Ed's aunt had given me some money for my bd so I went right out to get some more clothes. I got 1 pair of pants and 1 pair of capris at WM, a pair of capris and shirt at Fashion Bug, a shirt and jacket at the thrift store, and a few math activity books and phonics book at the thrift store.
Not to bad.

OH! I wanted to say, soccer is good for Katie. I think I had mentioned that we signed her up. Well, after soccer the other night, she actually fell asleep on the living room floor!! There wasn't any arguing or any thing of the sort. She was out like a light. Nice!

Have a good night everyone.
~Margarete~