Do you ever have those days when you don't feel like doing anything?? Yah, me too and today is one of those days.
We don't even know the last weekend that we didn't have ANYTHING to do! This weekend, we don't have anything planned! Ah, to enjoy it!
But there are many things to do around here. Clean the house that the tornado swept through, get groceries, get Courtney's grasshoppers (yes, I caughter her another one) a new home, get some fish, go shopping at Kohl's (I got my 30% off coupon!), go pick up books from the library for science next week, etc, etc, etc!
It is so nice though to sleep in and not have to do anything of importance this morning! The kids can play and don't have to go to school. I don't have to direct them to do anything, except they ARE going to clean their bedroom this afternoon, like it or not!
Saturday, September 29, 2012
Friday, September 28, 2012
The Big Birthday!
It's always fun counting down to a birthday, isn't it? We look at a calendar everyday for school and my girls have been counting down to my birthday for the last couple of weeks.
They even had their dad take them to Hobby Lobby last night, which they have been begging him to do all week, to get me a present. Last night, I got kicked out of the kitchen and I had to go upstairs while they used my kitchen to "make" my present. I am kind of anxious to see what this is all about! I didn't mind though, I got to sit and read a book for about an hour. Kind of great present right there!
As for plans for today, we don't really have any. We thought about getting a babysitter and going out, but I didn't get that far. But then I thought, I want to be with my family on my birthday! (Don't get me wrong, a night out would be nice too!) We still have to have school today. Since the girls were busy with birthday preparations and I wouldn't let them do their homework at 9:15 last night, they have to do their homework this morning. I still have to stare at my tornado-mess house, which hopefully will getting taken care of this weekend. I should really take some pictures because I don't think the girls' end of the hallway has ever been so bad. :( Maybe we can do something fun tonight or tomorrow. We will see!
They even had their dad take them to Hobby Lobby last night, which they have been begging him to do all week, to get me a present. Last night, I got kicked out of the kitchen and I had to go upstairs while they used my kitchen to "make" my present. I am kind of anxious to see what this is all about! I didn't mind though, I got to sit and read a book for about an hour. Kind of great present right there!
As for plans for today, we don't really have any. We thought about getting a babysitter and going out, but I didn't get that far. But then I thought, I want to be with my family on my birthday! (Don't get me wrong, a night out would be nice too!) We still have to have school today. Since the girls were busy with birthday preparations and I wouldn't let them do their homework at 9:15 last night, they have to do their homework this morning. I still have to stare at my tornado-mess house, which hopefully will getting taken care of this weekend. I should really take some pictures because I don't think the girls' end of the hallway has ever been so bad. :( Maybe we can do something fun tonight or tomorrow. We will see!
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
sick day?
Can I take a sick day to take care of Christian?? It's almost close to impossible to teach school while your two year old is coughing, crying, and in need of mom's attention 100% of the time.
Is that included in my contract??
Is that included in my contract??
Friday, September 21, 2012
Finish School and a Packing sort of day!
We are going on one last camping trip today with some fellow homeschooling friends.
But before then, we need to finish school for the week, everybody take showers, finish laundry, clean the house up a little bit, and pack! Luckily, I just have to pack clothes and food. We are not going swimming, so we don't have to bring all that stuff along!
I did get all the clothes and shoes that I need for the weekend. The girls have new tennis shoes, Megan has new jeans off the clearance rack, and Christian has plenty of sweatpants and sweatshirts. I even found Megan a new jacket. (But most of this happened at Walmart last night while we were shopping during supper time- never do that again! We were all starving and the kids were complaining and even Christian, who is usually my best shopper, had terrible behavior! Somebody taught him to "boom" people, which really means hit. How do you discipline a 2 year old in the middle of Walmart??)
So we have a busy day ahead of us. We are going to Indian Cave State Park, which is about two hours away and we need to get there before dark. I think we can do it!
Off to get the busy day started!
But before then, we need to finish school for the week, everybody take showers, finish laundry, clean the house up a little bit, and pack! Luckily, I just have to pack clothes and food. We are not going swimming, so we don't have to bring all that stuff along!
I did get all the clothes and shoes that I need for the weekend. The girls have new tennis shoes, Megan has new jeans off the clearance rack, and Christian has plenty of sweatpants and sweatshirts. I even found Megan a new jacket. (But most of this happened at Walmart last night while we were shopping during supper time- never do that again! We were all starving and the kids were complaining and even Christian, who is usually my best shopper, had terrible behavior! Somebody taught him to "boom" people, which really means hit. How do you discipline a 2 year old in the middle of Walmart??)
So we have a busy day ahead of us. We are going to Indian Cave State Park, which is about two hours away and we need to get there before dark. I think we can do it!
Off to get the busy day started!
Thursday, September 20, 2012
You know...
you don't want to work on your vocabulary words when you see mom curled up on the recliner watching TV at 4 pm and you offer her a pillow hoping she will really go to sleep and you will therefore get out of your work.
Yes, Courtney, it worked this time, but it might not again!
PS I knew what you were up to and honestly, I didn't want to work on them either. :)
Yes, Courtney, it worked this time, but it might not again!
PS I knew what you were up to and honestly, I didn't want to work on them either. :)
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Break from school...
Ok, today we need to take a little break from school, at least for the morning.
We are going camping this weekend and I saw that the high is going to be 61 on Saturday. That's a little chilly!
Megan has no jeans, no jacket, only a couple long sleeve shirts, and no shoes besides sandals. She does have warm pajamas.
Courtney has jeans, a jacket, lots of long sleeve shirts and a couple pairs of jeans, and no shoes besides sandals. She is now into the clothes that Megan wore when she was in kindergarten, so some of her jeans have holes in the knees (perfect camping jeans, I think!) and I think I threw away Megan's old tennis shoes because they were so worn. I think Courtney will be getting some more clothes than usual this year.
Christian needs pants, including sweat pants and sweat shirts, but he has plenty of long sleeve shirts I found on clearance last year along with footy pajamas. I think he has a pair of tennis shoes along with a jacket. He might be the easiest one!
We are going shopping this morning. We have our class at the homeschool learning center at 11, so that works out great. If we need even more time, we might go out for lunch and then continue shopping afterwards. I have also reserved a bunch of books at the library, so I would like to stop and pick those up too. Megan is determined to read every book in the Boxcar Series. There are over 100 books and she has read quite a few of them. I reserved ten more for her the other day from our library. She will be through those by next week.
We will get to school this afternoon. We also have AWANA tonight, so that will certainly make for a short school day.
As for our earthquakes yesterday, they were a big hit! We used cardboard, blankets, and Christian's blocks to build everything. You know the girls are having fun when they say, "Just one more time, mom!" I hate to put the fun to an end, but we really needed to get on with school! It was funny because later they had turned our cardboard "tectonic plates" into skates and they were skating around the house on them.
We are going camping this weekend and I saw that the high is going to be 61 on Saturday. That's a little chilly!
Megan has no jeans, no jacket, only a couple long sleeve shirts, and no shoes besides sandals. She does have warm pajamas.
Courtney has jeans, a jacket, lots of long sleeve shirts and a couple pairs of jeans, and no shoes besides sandals. She is now into the clothes that Megan wore when she was in kindergarten, so some of her jeans have holes in the knees (perfect camping jeans, I think!) and I think I threw away Megan's old tennis shoes because they were so worn. I think Courtney will be getting some more clothes than usual this year.
Christian needs pants, including sweat pants and sweat shirts, but he has plenty of long sleeve shirts I found on clearance last year along with footy pajamas. I think he has a pair of tennis shoes along with a jacket. He might be the easiest one!
We are going shopping this morning. We have our class at the homeschool learning center at 11, so that works out great. If we need even more time, we might go out for lunch and then continue shopping afterwards. I have also reserved a bunch of books at the library, so I would like to stop and pick those up too. Megan is determined to read every book in the Boxcar Series. There are over 100 books and she has read quite a few of them. I reserved ten more for her the other day from our library. She will be through those by next week.
We will get to school this afternoon. We also have AWANA tonight, so that will certainly make for a short school day.
As for our earthquakes yesterday, they were a big hit! We used cardboard, blankets, and Christian's blocks to build everything. You know the girls are having fun when they say, "Just one more time, mom!" I hate to put the fun to an end, but we really needed to get on with school! It was funny because later they had turned our cardboard "tectonic plates" into skates and they were skating around the house on them.
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Earthquakes today!
The fossils were a great hit yesterday. We ended up doing science for about two hours yesterday morning!! We hadn't finished our lesson from last Friday, so we did that first and then we went to our lesson on fossils. The girls helped me make the salt dough and we had two cookie sheets full of "fossils" when we were done. We had to bake them for an hour to make the dough firm up. We made bugs, seashells, Courtney's foot (didn't they spot "bigfoot" oncet?), dinosaur feet, gorilla feet, and a wheel for Christian. We had a great time thinking of things to make, we used mostly toys because those washed up pretty easily. I kept asking the girls, "What would people think if they found these in the future?" Heck, maybe somebody will find our fossils in the future!
Today we are onto earthquakes. Again, our book says to go online and find the nearest fault lines, but I think we need more than that! I think I am going to find some cardboard, a blanket, and some legos. I am going to put the cardboard on the floor first to mimic Tectonic plates, then a blanket to represent the earths crust, and then I am going to have the kids take the bigger legos and build some buildings. Then I am going to move the plates to represent an earthquake and see what happens! I will try a smaller earthquake and then I will make it huge! I hope this will be fun! I am sure the girls will want to try and all three kids will probably have fun building some buildings for the earthquake!
Reading, writing, and math...yes, we'll get to those too. :)
Today we are onto earthquakes. Again, our book says to go online and find the nearest fault lines, but I think we need more than that! I think I am going to find some cardboard, a blanket, and some legos. I am going to put the cardboard on the floor first to mimic Tectonic plates, then a blanket to represent the earths crust, and then I am going to have the kids take the bigger legos and build some buildings. Then I am going to move the plates to represent an earthquake and see what happens! I will try a smaller earthquake and then I will make it huge! I hope this will be fun! I am sure the girls will want to try and all three kids will probably have fun building some buildings for the earthquake!
Reading, writing, and math...yes, we'll get to those too. :)
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