Homeschool Giveaways

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Weighted Blanket Success

Welllll.......Success! Last night Katie went to bed with her weighted blanket, another blanket, and my body pillow. She slept all night except for getting up to go to the bathroom. She woke up a little before 8 am and that is because I moved her blanket to check on her. This is progress. She also has been much calmer today. Probably because she got a normal amount of sleep. ~smile~ Maybe the dark circles under my eyes have a chance to go away. ~LOL~

I will continue to update on this. Maybe this will help someone else.

Katie's Weighted Blanket

We are all so excited! Katie's weighted blanket came today. Here is a picture along with the pillow case they included. Katie cannot wait for bedtime tonight. "I" can't wait for her to go to bed tonight. ~LOL~
It is a beautiful blanket. It is 9lbs.
Here is the website:
http://www.weightedblanket.net
They are very thorough. I had left a message for ordering this over the 4th of July weekend. Well, they called me back the very next business day to inform me that I ordered the wrong weight. The woman was very nice. So far I would recomment this company right away.
I'll let you know in a few days, week if this helps Katie. Every child is different, so we shall see.

Pea Picking

Last night Ed came home and asked, "How would you like to pick some peas?" "What?" I asked. Yep. Jimmie called and said he has lots of peas. Well, That's what we did this afternoon. We gathered some of the kids including Becca's friend Brian and off we went; pea picking (very natural not sprayed!). We had fun. I now have a lot of respect for the people who have to do this all the time. ~smile~

Anyway, we came home with a few buckets of peas, broccoli, and a huge carpenter's bucket of eggplant. ~LOL~

Yes, Jimmie also had some of the other vegetables there for us. I will now be freezing these. I also found out that I can freeze eggplant, which I did not know. So, tomorrow afternoon I should be busy in the kitchen.

Tom said that when he is older, he would love to be able to do this, plant crops, harvest, etc. But he said this would be on the side after his "regular" job. I had to smile at that. Jimmie is an excellent teacher for this. I now have to start finding some books and experiments, etc. for Tom.

My fun-filled daughters

This is Ana after she decided to dress herself.

This was taken when we were getting the garden ready

Quick Post

I am so excited for this new school year! I just put in a few orders for school books etc. My kids (and myself) are going to be excited when the UPS man gets here. ~smile~

I also started changing my blog sidebars with the new subjects. Tom will be doing a lot of experiments this year and so will Katie and Ana. They needed a change. This will keep their attention better.

I'm also excited for Story of the World. I bought Jim Weiss audio cd's for the girls! They are starting to want to listen to stories at night so this will be great.

I do have some more things to get but I will be ordering them in a few weeks. I have to "save" some from my grocery money. ~LOL~ That's ok. It will benefit all of us.

I had decided not to use the Apologia Human Body for Becca. Apologia seems a little boring and she really didn't like the courses that she already took. (I wish I could go back and change it). The books and dvd's that I ordered will be better for her. ~This is her last year~

I can't wait to see the Artists and Composers activity paks from Homeschoolinthewoods.com . These look awesome! I'm wondering if Katie and Ana could do some of these? We will see....

Becca will be doing crafts for art so we will be visiting Michaels and AC Moore quite a bit.

The 2 girls are doing great with their therapeutic horse riding lessons. Ana cried last night because she found out that the horse she had started with, was going out to pasture. She doesn't quite understand that he is old and needs to relax. I tried to explain to her that, just like us when we get old, we need to relax. She'll be ok. I'm sure she will find another special horse.

We were blessed with a PA Autism Grant for Katie's lessons. We were so excited when we received the letter.

(Just a little note: The girl's "trainers" are excellent at what they do and they are very nice and enjoyable to be around.)

This week I ordered a weighted (twin) blanket for Katie. We ordered from Dream Catchers www.weightedblankets.net (Thanks Mom & Dad). I will let you know how Katie adjusts with it. I'm thinking we may get it by the end of next week.

Thomas isn't so thrilled. I have him going back to learning Latin. ~smile~ I hear/heard good things about First Form Latin, so we will be giving this a good try. I think I will sit with him to learn this "if" I have the chance to.

We are so excited with becoming grandparents. What a gift from God! Our grandson is so beautiful. We have been seeing pictures and it's amazing to see him with his eyes wide open. We also see his Daddy in his face and also his Uncle Tom. We are hoping to go down again real soon. (not soon enough for me)

Well, Time to move on with other things.
Have a good night.
~Margarete~

Our Grandson

He is Here!

Our 1st grandchild/grandson was born today! He was 7lbs. 12oz.; 20 1/4 inches long. We cannot wait to see him. We are trying to figure out when to go...it is quite a ride. I bet he is so beautiful. His parents are. :)

Summertime

Pumpkins; This and That

Just a little while ago, I went out to the garden and I saw pumpkin seedlings all over! Do you think my dear husband will be upset knowing Katie and myself replanted them in the back where I had the sunflower seedlings? ~LOL~ I just transferred the sunflowers so we should have many pumpkins in the fall .... I may need a new place to live after this. ~hahaha~

We are have a tornado watch here until this evening so Katie asked if it changes to a warning can she go and get her things together. Absolutely! She is well prepared. Praying it never comes to a tornado hitting here!

I am waiting anxiously for Ed to give the ok to order new homeschool books/supplies. I'm getting very "antsy" and want to get things moving around here.

I have the homeschool room just about finished; being cleaned up that is. Soon everything will come out to put in the new floor. We've been waiting so long!

In a few weeks our new grandson will be born. I will soon be an offical grandmom. ~Big Smile~

Have a pleasant rest of the day.

~Margarete~