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Last evening I called Anita, my 4 year-old daughter, to come to the kitchen for a minute.....I could hear her in her bedroom chattering away.....she didn't come.....I called again....still no response......I just startin…
Yikes!!! I must be getting old or something....I just realized that I forgot to bring my camera home from grandma's house for the second day in a row.........sorry....the pictures will have to wait until tomorrow...I gu…
Yeah Hurray!!! It is haircut/trimming day! The girls' hair has been in need of a good trim for awhile...the split ends abound making it more difficult to comb out their hair....so they are getting the ends trimmed and …
I wonder how much exhaustion plays into feeling sick....the last 2 days have been worse again, but I was extremely tired from having worked 3 nights in a row and had had a glucose tolerance test the one morning...that ma…
Happy 35th BirthdayBethany!
I felt better yesterday than I have in months!!! And I wasn't even sick in the evening either!! Dare I hope that morning sickness is now pretty much in the past??? I certainly hope this is a sign of things to come....…
Lessons in Life~The kids have been studying Mammals in their science lessons this week and have been talking about different kinds of prey and what it means to be an animal of prey or to be prey.....they have had some re…
Can I please just go back to bed this morning........Chicken alarm went off at 4:45am and again at 5:30am and yet again at 6:50am....Of course it woke up several kids each time....we had 3 extra kids again last night...b…
Yesterday's school went fabulously! Marci liked her reading assignment so much and was so delighted to be able to read all the words that she kept going and read a whole week's worth.....and Antony read 3 lessons worth.…
School......it starts today!!!The kids have a bit of mixed feelings, but for the most part haven't really complained. Anita is flat out excited....she has been looking at her pre-school books for weeks! Antony and Marc…
Scarpbooking went better than I expected yesterday....I don't know how much Bethany accomplished, but I know that Amy did get a bit done and I put the finishing touches on 4 spreads and did 1 complete spread....Now Marci…
Last Scrapbooking Day Today is the last day we plan to do scrapbooking before school starts this coming week. We are hoping to accomplish lots....but when I look at the numbers for the day....I can't help but wonder how…
Just want you all to know......I have the BEST MOM ever!!!!Not only did she pick up a few groceries for me this morning....when she brought them to my house, I guess she sensed that I was about at my ropes' end as far as…
Not sure what to post this morning....it seems to be just a regular-at-home kind of day....I do have someone coming from the homeschool group to help me set up a website just for the group today....I will be moderating i…
Good morning....another slow summer day around here....we will most likely get some more scrapbooking done at grandma's house...I have managed to finish up an album for Anita that I started about 15 months ago....even th…
So.....here I sit....at almost 8pm.....there is a rowdy game of hide-and-seek being played in the house around me, a noisy-toad-hunting expedition is going on outside, the dog is yapping continueously at a fox in the pas…
1st Day of SchoolYesterday turned, unexpectedly, into a school day, without the kids even realizing it......I like those kind of days!! The well drillers showed up and drilled a new well for our house.....yeah!! we sho…
Wednesday~Here it is bright and early....normally I would be sound asleep still, but I forgot to take my allergy pill the last 2 days and I am paying for it since 4:30am. I have taken it now, but all hopes of more sleep…
The Last Vacation Post!Tuesday, we went back to Dutch Wonderland again, but this time entered the water park area.....it was any water-loving kid's paradise!! I had a harder time getting photos of the 3 older ones cause…
Vacation Post # 5This is the last post from Monday.....and I think there will only be one more vacation post from Tuesday...so hang in there, it is coming to an end.So after lunch we headed across the park on the sky lif…
Today~1. I need to.....Clean and pick-up the housefold and put away the laundry....maybe wash a load or two also, so the weekend doesn't make such a huge piletrim the trees along the front of the cow pen....they send up …