scrapxs4's blog
Well it is July and has been 100-103 lowest has been 95. I am personally loving it but I am a well kept women lol. I spend my days with the kids in the pool, at the lake , at the state park water park, in AC, at friends with AC, in stores with AC, or back in our pool. hehehe. Hate me much? My husband however is very hating the heat. He got his company truck and is working steady thankfully . However it is ultra hot on his jobs.
I have trimmed the fat in every way around my parts. I have cut out cable , internet, home phone, and have stuck close to home . Jim has been working very little and out of work completely for 2 weeks. So instead of falling behind and playing a mean game of stressfull catch up when work picks up I just trimmed the fat.
Spring time is really here. It was almost 90 here yesterday. LOVE IT! The kids and I are so busy planting and digging up things. Moving plants , weeding , building our barrier wall finally around the front flower bed and the sides. We made some potted plants and plopped them around the yard to see how they turn out on our breaks between mulching. OUr pool is just about full and ready to open. The signs of summer are all begining to show. Blooms are on every fruit tree, flowers are popping up some have already bloomed some are just about to.
We went for a walk and discovered some cool tadpole egg sacks a few at different stages. So we are going to share and watch them hatch with a few of our friends to see whose hatches first and try to see how many we get. In case you have never seen I have included some pics.
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Oh and here is just one of my pretty kitty.
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As regular schools start to round out their year with testing and finishing projects. My homeschool family is gearing up for our busiest time of our year. Spring and summer we get the most of our schooling done. Maybe the nice weather is such great motivation to get work done so we can get out in in the sun and fun. But there is just so much to do and explore doing this time of year. So many great field trips. Which then spring board us into projects, reports, research, more reading, and more outing that might be related.
Last night I was able to get caught up with a friend I have not spoken to in a while. She also lives in the country even more then us . They have cows you name it. She also has a few more kids but she homeschools too. We got to talking about how are kids get to kinda live in the best of both worlds. The good ole days when a kid was a kid. They got dirty, they made their own toys, their siblings were their best friends, and they worked as hard as they played.
We got a late start yesterday on school but when we got it it was worth the wait. Not only did we do our normal work we also studied Martin Luther King Jr. for a bit. We watched 2 movies about him including one with a lot of live footage and interviews.
I am learning how to hunt out all sort of tools and info to use in homeschooling. I am always searching the web for websites with math games, alphabet games, even grammer lessons. I am always hunting for deals on books , currics, notebooks, crayons ,markers, craft supplys, social activities and I spent a good part of this afternoon hunting a deal on a movie rental contract. I need a tool to get some more interesting science, history bio's , and even geogrophy movies into our homeschool.
Where to begin? I guess I will begin with my day. We had our field trip to the power plant with the homeschool group . It was a great , very educational trip. It was great for my kids to see another kind of power plant since their dad being a millwright works shut downs. They were able to see a coal power plant when he worked one of those but they have never seen a nuclear. Bri was able to hang out with one of her fave little friends such a sweet little girl.
SO I am up this Wed morning off to a slow start the kids are just finishing breakfast and starting school. I am trying to find my motivation to get back in the bathroom and fight that border again. It has been hateful! I find myself making new chores just to keep me away from the bathroom. New experiments for our homeschool science lapbook. But I know I have to do it must make myself get sticky and gooey from stripping chems.
So I have officially rejoined the living. After a week of being so sick I was worthless. SO today we did homeschool like usual from 8:30 to around 12:30 finished a bit early today since we had unit tests and reviews mostly. Last week Bri was really struggling with her geography and me being so sick I was not really focussed either. But this weekend we went to several differnt parts of the river that were gving her trouble and let the kids explore and turned the dog loose. Ex.
So here is my attempt to blog for THINK.
SO it is 10:30 I am all sleepy and just hop in my bed get all cozy when in hops Dutches. Licking her belly like mad. OH OH that is a sign it is time for babies. She is officially due the 17th but we sure feel a lot of movement in there so it might be tonight. So out of my bed I go into the little maternity ward/ office/ laundry room lol . Now I sit here waiting Dutchess in her little bed, Miecho next to it on the floor waiting , So I figured I might as well invite you all to wait with us.
I am kinda lovin this nest email stuff. How about you guys. I feel a little less lost when I am away. :)
I have been so busy doinf yard work and going to cook outs and pic nics. OUTDOOR challange. We close down our pool this week end I am so sad the cold weather is on the way. But I always loose weight in the winter . Shivering your ass off burns a ton of cals I suppose. lol
Hello nesters I miss you all madly! I have been so busy I have had no time to savor some much needed nest time. My morning coffee and nest time has been turned into chugging coffee on the run . We are in full swing with home school doing and that starts at 8:30 am so I am off the radar from 8:30 till around 2pm. most days. Plus I have been doing a lot of soul searching and life reflecting. Oh you know that is never a good thing. I have decided to go back to school.
