*Recent discoveries:
1) My boys can break things faster than Keith can fix them (i.e. cupboard door and toilet seat).
2) If a roll of toilet paper gets wet and then dries, it reminds me a lot of the t.p. I encountered in Russia!
*We’re over the flu virus. Yay.
*Caleb and Logan were able to enjoy three of the four days of VBS at the Lutheran Church.
*Most of my flowers are blooming quite nicely and I’m really enjoying them. Sadly, the weeds in my garden are doing just as well. I find I’m much more motivated to weed the flowerbeds than the garden. :-) My big flowerbed beside the patio is really pretty – mostly. There’s now a patch about 2’ x 2’ that just died. For no apparent reason. Three different kinds of flowers died. Maybe I’ll post pictures and let you diagnose it.
*Yesterday I was looking through the Sonlight catalogue and I felt my first twinges of anticipation for the coming school year. If you know Sonlight at all, we’re going to go “backwards” and put Caleb and Logan both in Core C (Caleb did Core 1 last year). Caleb will have his own readers and language arts. There was just no way Logan would be ready for Core 2 and I really want to get them going on the same core. I’ll just have to supplement more reading, etc. for Caleb. I don’t know what Math to do for Logan. Abeka, Horizons, Math-it??? Does anyone know, is Math-it a complete program, or is it just a supplement??
*A question I’m contemplating: When will my “pride” in not wearing maternity tops yet give way to my humiliation of looking more fat than pregnant?? I’m guessing I have a week to go – max.
*My hubby had his 35th birthday this week. We had cake and ice cream at the beach with our cell group. He grilled his own steak for supper. I did manage to make the rest of the meal.
*This week I finally balanced the checkbook and the budget for the first time in months. Sigh. It feels so good to have it caught up again. And sorta frustrating to see how much it costs to live.
*Caleb has been in book-worm mode lately and I sometimes have to tell him to put the book away and go play!
*At the supper table last night: Me, explaining the food to Logan, “They’re dumplins’, just like you’re my little dumplin.” Logan: No I’m not, I’m a monkey!
*Josiah is getting into repeating lots of words. He’s becoming quite a little talker, one word at a time.
*This weekend is Nsmn Days (street festival with an airplane theme, for those of you not from here). We started the fun by taking in the “free” hot dogs and pop tonight. (Free with the purchase of an expensive week-end pass.) Of course, I made the kids eat something healthy before we went. :-) Keith is working nights at the ambulance tomorrow night so he probably can’t watch the fireworks with us. But, we discovered last year that we can see them quite well from our patio. So, I’ll just take the boys out there to watch them. Wanna come? I can make popcorn.
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6 comments:
i have no comment, except that i enjoyed reading all of that! :)
(oh, and, i'd love to come over to watch fireworks with you.)
ya, me too, I wanna come.
I wish we could come. Maybe my mom can come instead of me. She's flying to RL even as we speak and will be there till tom. after lunch. She'll be at KEndra's today if you want to call her. =)
I'm not sure why I'm anonymous up there when I signed my name. Hmmmm....
Have you ever heard of Math-U-See for a math curriculum? I used it a bit when homeschooling, and my Mom uses it all the time for all my siblings too. She really enjoys it. There's a video that you watch a 5-10 minute segment before each section, and you do one section a week. It repeats itself a fair bit so the kid remembers more, and comes with extra practice sheets in case the child needs more practice for certain new things. It's called math-u-see because you also have blocks to visually do your math with and all. Anyways, can you tell that my Mom sells that math program and that I helped her with several homeschool conferences booths??? ;-)
Oups, last comment was from Anne Jisca. ;-)
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