Sort of.
I home school. Ooooh. :o) Its not as off-the-wall as you may be thinking, I haven't taken the BIG LEAP of actually doing it myself. LOL We home school through our local school district, it is considered public school, but I teach and we are at home. We do meet with a teacher once a quarter, and I can call her if I need a hand. Its nice, but it lacks the excitement of 'really' homeschooling.
So I've decided that next year I still will not take that BIG LEAP, but I will supplement with my own things. Kind of like earlier in the school year, my 1st grader was studying Biblical history (through the school no less!). She was learning about David & Goliath, before that she was learning about Moses and the Exodus. We're big Veggietales fans, so every time we'd get one of those lessons we would pull up the Veggietales movie, either from our collection or on YouTube, and compare to actual history. It was fun. And almost always lead into other realms of discussion.
Next year I'm going to add ACTUAL Biblical studies, because it fits with our family beliefs. Not an every day catechism, but a once a week family study. Should be fun. I'm looking at Sonlight Bible curriculum, but I've not completely decided yet. Have a suggestion for one, let me know.
I'm also going to buy the girls DK's History: The Definitive Visual Guide. Thanks to Pioneer Woman, I NEED to have that book to supplement our history lessons! :o) She waxed poetic about it, gave some away and I didn't win. I must get this book!!
So I was thinking I also wanted to get the girls a chemistry set like MY mom got me when I was about 10. They don't make them anymore. Not like the cool one I had anyway. The one I had was awesome! It had about 20 different bottles of chemicals including borax, phosphorus, some kind of acids (probably citric) and sulphur. I remember mixing some chemicals together and them turning blue. Mix another set together and get red. Invisible ink. Smoke. Neat stuff! Now its dangerous to let kids experiment with chemistry sets, they might discover something O_O, or their big brother/sister might discover the set and make methamphetamine. :o( Thanks for killing the joy of learning!
I also got, that same year, a circuit set. It had TONS of little color-coded wires (I remember red ones, blue ones and black ones... each different lengths). You followed the directions and connected wires to connectors and you could turn a little light bulb on and off, or run a little motor. Many little electronic tricks. So cool! I wish I would have had the foreknowledge to save it, because I have no clue where to find something like it either! Anyone?
I want the girls to have fun with science, and I'm not talking the whole soda bottle tornado thing or Mentos in Diet Coke. I think I also need to find them some cool microscope slides, no need for a microscope... Rick found one back when he was driving tow trucks. One of the cars they were selling had a kick-ass microscope in a metal box... quite old even :o)
Off to do some non-scientific, and not even educational, TV watching :o) Happy trails.
Friday, January 30, 2009
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Saturday
...was a good day, a 'family' day. We have so few of those particular days, mostly because we let life get in the way. A normal Saturday consists of sleeping in (as late as Abi sleeps in), some sort of slapped together breakfast, lots of TV or computer for the girls and cleaning for us. Really its boring and so disconnected.
This past Saturday is hopefully the beginning of a new trend. It started out with waking up at 7A because Rick had to work a half day (9A - noon). The girls and I vegetated and watched REAL Saturday morning cartoons, which means we watched Boomerang. We watched Popeye, Top Cat, the Jetsons and Scooby-Doo. If they'd have been on we'd also have watched the Smurfs, the Snorks, Voltron & He-Man :o)
After cartoons, the girls got a little computer time... the bane of my existence! By the time Rick got home, I'd shoo'd the girls out to play in the fresh air (and I was reading!). They begged for him to come out and play with them... football! The girls got Rick a football for Christmas, he'd told them he'd always wanted one... now he has one! :o)
After football, they were exhausted. So everyone came in for a rest, and a round of The Game of Life. Not one of Rick's favorite games, heck, he doesn't really like board games at ALL. But even he admitted that since Emmie is older, they are a bit more fun to play (Emmie used to want to play, and then throw a fit when she couldn't get it... so normal!).
After Life, we watched Bee Movie and Over the Hedge. Talk about some funny movies! And even better, funny movies that we could all enjoy together! :o)
Then a nice thrown together chicken dinner.
What a lovely Saturday. I hope to have more like that in the future!
This past Saturday is hopefully the beginning of a new trend. It started out with waking up at 7A because Rick had to work a half day (9A - noon). The girls and I vegetated and watched REAL Saturday morning cartoons, which means we watched Boomerang. We watched Popeye, Top Cat, the Jetsons and Scooby-Doo. If they'd have been on we'd also have watched the Smurfs, the Snorks, Voltron & He-Man :o)
After cartoons, the girls got a little computer time... the bane of my existence! By the time Rick got home, I'd shoo'd the girls out to play in the fresh air (and I was reading!). They begged for him to come out and play with them... football! The girls got Rick a football for Christmas, he'd told them he'd always wanted one... now he has one! :o)
After football, they were exhausted. So everyone came in for a rest, and a round of The Game of Life. Not one of Rick's favorite games, heck, he doesn't really like board games at ALL. But even he admitted that since Emmie is older, they are a bit more fun to play (Emmie used to want to play, and then throw a fit when she couldn't get it... so normal!).
After Life, we watched Bee Movie and Over the Hedge. Talk about some funny movies! And even better, funny movies that we could all enjoy together! :o)
Then a nice thrown together chicken dinner.
What a lovely Saturday. I hope to have more like that in the future!
Thursday, January 22, 2009
I've been reading...
anything and everything I can get my hands on these days. Really I've been reading like that for as long as I can remember. I learned to read when I was 4. I can actually remember reading The Fox & the Hound (the Disney book club version) to my mom waaaay back then! :o)
Today, my tastes run a little more... adult, but not in the dirty sense! LOL Though I have been known to read my fair share of romance novels... I LOVE the Christian 'Love Inspired' books! :o)
Yesterday I finished reading Goofy Foot by David Daniel. Not a book I'd normally pick up, I just don't know the author... but I was looking for a book and my oldest spotted the title and giggled. "Goofy Foot? That's silly!" I picked it up, liked the cover art and the inside flap writing. Its a mystery, and I THOUGHT it'd have surfing in it... not really. But still good, and had me guessing even! :o)
The book I had been looking at was Tough Cookie by Diane Mott Davidson. This book is what you would call a 'culinary' mystery... its got recipes in it! :o) I found this author by way of looking at books by one of my favorite authors these days, Joanne Fluke. She also writes 'culinary' mysteries :o) Love them... good writing AND good food!
I'm also a big fan of Christopher Moore... I can't wait until Fool goes on sale! I started reading him when I was in high school back in Cambria, CA. I couldn't get enough! He used to live in the area, knew my momma from the Post Office (she used to work at the Cambria PO, now Postmistress in San Simeon... sweet!). Met him at a book signing for his book, Lamb. He signed a couple of my other books of his... I'm forever in love with him now! LOL If you like... odd?... check him out!
Off to soothe my screaming children who wish I'd have made something better for dinner... happy reading... who's YOUR favorite??
Today, my tastes run a little more... adult, but not in the dirty sense! LOL Though I have been known to read my fair share of romance novels... I LOVE the Christian 'Love Inspired' books! :o)
Yesterday I finished reading Goofy Foot by David Daniel. Not a book I'd normally pick up, I just don't know the author... but I was looking for a book and my oldest spotted the title and giggled. "Goofy Foot? That's silly!" I picked it up, liked the cover art and the inside flap writing. Its a mystery, and I THOUGHT it'd have surfing in it... not really. But still good, and had me guessing even! :o)
The book I had been looking at was Tough Cookie by Diane Mott Davidson. This book is what you would call a 'culinary' mystery... its got recipes in it! :o) I found this author by way of looking at books by one of my favorite authors these days, Joanne Fluke. She also writes 'culinary' mysteries :o) Love them... good writing AND good food!
I'm also a big fan of Christopher Moore... I can't wait until Fool goes on sale! I started reading him when I was in high school back in Cambria, CA. I couldn't get enough! He used to live in the area, knew my momma from the Post Office (she used to work at the Cambria PO, now Postmistress in San Simeon... sweet!). Met him at a book signing for his book, Lamb. He signed a couple of my other books of his... I'm forever in love with him now! LOL If you like... odd?... check him out!
Off to soothe my screaming children who wish I'd have made something better for dinner... happy reading... who's YOUR favorite??
Monday, January 19, 2009
Today is my birthday.
My 30th birthday.
I'm not sure what I was expecting from the day. For sure, I wasn't expecting what I got. :o)
Where we live, we have to take our Christmas trees to be recycled ourselves... since today was the last day to drop them off, Rick took our tree to the recycle yard. On his way home, I asked him to pick me up a Bruegger's bagel. A Sunday Brunch sandwich to be exact. It was so yummy... a french toast bagel, Vermont maple syrup cream cheese (oh yea baby!), eggs and sausage. I want another one! :o) He brought me home my bagel... and a balloon and carnations. I'm not a carnation 'person', I love Gerbera daisies, but carnations are my 'birth' flower... just as special to me! :o)
Not too long later, my sister-in-law came walking in the front door. Can I just say I LOVE that we live close enough to them (2 blocks to be exact!), and I'm close enough to her, for this to be awesome? It is. She brought with her balloons, one of which declares that I'm 30 :o) She also brought me presents!! A bundt pan (which I totally need!), casserole cozies (which I totally love) and a Coach purse (which I'm totally digging!). Tonight, she made me (and her family, of course!) some of the yummiest enchiladas. I baked my cake, German chocolate cake, thank you very much! :o)
Its been a wonderful day! Blows so many of my past birthdays out of the water... except my 18th :o)
I'm not sure what I was expecting from the day. For sure, I wasn't expecting what I got. :o)
Where we live, we have to take our Christmas trees to be recycled ourselves... since today was the last day to drop them off, Rick took our tree to the recycle yard. On his way home, I asked him to pick me up a Bruegger's bagel. A Sunday Brunch sandwich to be exact. It was so yummy... a french toast bagel, Vermont maple syrup cream cheese (oh yea baby!), eggs and sausage. I want another one! :o) He brought me home my bagel... and a balloon and carnations. I'm not a carnation 'person', I love Gerbera daisies, but carnations are my 'birth' flower... just as special to me! :o)
Not too long later, my sister-in-law came walking in the front door. Can I just say I LOVE that we live close enough to them (2 blocks to be exact!), and I'm close enough to her, for this to be awesome? It is. She brought with her balloons, one of which declares that I'm 30 :o) She also brought me presents!! A bundt pan (which I totally need!), casserole cozies (which I totally love) and a Coach purse (which I'm totally digging!). Tonight, she made me (and her family, of course!) some of the yummiest enchiladas. I baked my cake, German chocolate cake, thank you very much! :o)
Its been a wonderful day! Blows so many of my past birthdays out of the water... except my 18th :o)
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Dave Ramsey...
will tonight (and the next 12 weeks) be worth $95? I've heard wonderful things, so I can only hope! :o)
We've been in debt, and we've climbed out of it as responsibly as we could. We went through Consumer Credit Counseling Services also known as CCCS (that links to the local branch we went through... you can find a closer one to you!). We paid off over $20K in 3 years, they said it would probably take us 4! And then what did we do? We decided to move to Colorado, where our brakes completely failed and had to be COMPLETELY replaced and we promptly got screwed by park management, and got back into debt... thankfully only to the tune of $6K. Its all good though!
So we're at church a couple weeks ago and I see that we'll be hosting Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace University (not Dave Ramsey, just the seminar). I'd heard about him! I actually had bought his book the week or so before! Talked to Rick, he agrees, we could do it. Talked to in-laws, they agree to watch the kiddos for us. Talk to the CPA putting on the seminar, flinch when she says it will be $95 for the seminar. Feel better when she says we can make 2 or 3 payments! :o)
Tonight is week 1. We get our 'kits', we get to watch an hour long video, then we get to talk for an hour. Can I call this a date night? I'm thinking maybe not. But I think I can call it a step in the right direction!
We've been in debt, and we've climbed out of it as responsibly as we could. We went through Consumer Credit Counseling Services also known as CCCS (that links to the local branch we went through... you can find a closer one to you!). We paid off over $20K in 3 years, they said it would probably take us 4! And then what did we do? We decided to move to Colorado, where our brakes completely failed and had to be COMPLETELY replaced and we promptly got screwed by park management, and got back into debt... thankfully only to the tune of $6K. Its all good though!
So we're at church a couple weeks ago and I see that we'll be hosting Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace University (not Dave Ramsey, just the seminar). I'd heard about him! I actually had bought his book the week or so before! Talked to Rick, he agrees, we could do it. Talked to in-laws, they agree to watch the kiddos for us. Talk to the CPA putting on the seminar, flinch when she says it will be $95 for the seminar. Feel better when she says we can make 2 or 3 payments! :o)
Tonight is week 1. We get our 'kits', we get to watch an hour long video, then we get to talk for an hour. Can I call this a date night? I'm thinking maybe not. But I think I can call it a step in the right direction!
Saturday, January 17, 2009
In need of another joke...
but I won't take any responsibility for it! This is Rick's joke!
Why did Spock pee on the ceiling?
To go where no man has gone before... (oh man, that was BAD!) :o)
Now I know we're up too late, he's telling awful jokes! Takin' that boy to bed... night! ;o)
Why did Spock pee on the ceiling?
To go where no man has gone before... (oh man, that was BAD!) :o)
Now I know we're up too late, he's telling awful jokes! Takin' that boy to bed... night! ;o)
Friday, January 16, 2009
You look like you need a good laugh...
... so I've got a joke for you...
As a trucker stops for a red light, a blonde catches up. She jumps out of her car, runs up to his truck, and knocks on the door. The trucker lowers the window, and she says, "Hi, my name is Heather, and you are losing some of your load!" The
trucker ignores her and proceeds down the street. When the truck stops for another red light, the girl catches up again. She jumps out of her car runs up and knocks on the door. Again, the trucker lowers the window. As if they've never spoken, the blonde says brightly, "Hi, my name is Heather, and you are losing some of your load!"
Shaking his head, the trucker ignores her again and continues down the street. At the third red light, the same thing happens again. All out of breath, the blonde gets out of her car, runs up, knocks on the truck door. The trucker lowers the window. Again she says, "Hi, my name is Heather, and you are losing some of your load!" When the light turns green the trucker revs up and races to the next light When he stops this time, he hurriedly gets out of the truck, and runs back to the blonde. He knocks on her window, and as she lowers it, he says,............
"Hi, my name is Kevin, it's winter in MINNESOTA, and I'm driving the FECKING SALT TRUCK!!!"
Unless you've heard it before, you totally didn't see that coming did you? :o)
Today is my momma's birthday. Happy Birthday, Momma! :o)
As a trucker stops for a red light, a blonde catches up. She jumps out of her car, runs up to his truck, and knocks on the door. The trucker lowers the window, and she says, "Hi, my name is Heather, and you are losing some of your load!" The
trucker ignores her and proceeds down the street. When the truck stops for another red light, the girl catches up again. She jumps out of her car runs up and knocks on the door. Again, the trucker lowers the window. As if they've never spoken, the blonde says brightly, "Hi, my name is Heather, and you are losing some of your load!"
Shaking his head, the trucker ignores her again and continues down the street. At the third red light, the same thing happens again. All out of breath, the blonde gets out of her car, runs up, knocks on the truck door. The trucker lowers the window. Again she says, "Hi, my name is Heather, and you are losing some of your load!" When the light turns green the trucker revs up and races to the next light When he stops this time, he hurriedly gets out of the truck, and runs back to the blonde. He knocks on her window, and as she lowers it, he says,............
"Hi, my name is Kevin, it's winter in MINNESOTA, and I'm driving the FECKING SALT TRUCK!!!"
Unless you've heard it before, you totally didn't see that coming did you? :o)
Today is my momma's birthday. Happy Birthday, Momma! :o)
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Monday, January 12, 2009
The Denver Zoo
Colorado's Scientific & Cultural Facilities District (SCFD) is so awesome that it sponsors FREE days at the Denver Zoo, the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, the Denver Botanic Gardens (downtown & Chatfield), the Denver Center for Performing Arts AND the Denver Art Museum!!! I'm looking forward to taking the family to all of these places... and our first stop was the Denver Zoo!
For me, the Denver Zoo puts the Los Angeles Zoo to shame... really. It is GINORMOUS!!! What I find funny though is that every time I say we went to the zoo, someone runs through a list of animals asking if we saw them... and they always ask if we saw bears. Oddly, I don't recall seeing any bears... save for the 2 polar bears.
We also saw lions and a tiger... you really get that close to the lion (with glass between you, of course!). For the tiger, I used my telephoto lens, but it was only about 5 feet away behind glass. You can view them from outside, too... but it was so stinkin' cold out, we liked the buildings :o)
We also saw giraffes; an adult, a 'teenager' and a baby that was born last August. Would you believe that the baby was SIX FEET TALL when it was BORN!? :o)
There is this little window when you exit the 'feline' building, the girls went to see what was on the other side and this beautiful cheetah walked up to them! There may be glass there, but I think we all jumped! LOL They really are gorgeous though, aren't they??
After all those felines, (polar) bears and giraffes (oh my!)... we skeedaddled into the 'Rainforest'. There we saw PIRANHAS and 2 Komodo Dragons! Doesn't the dragon look likes its smiling? :o) Did you know that a Komodo dragon bites its 'victim' and then the bacteria in its venom sets about killing? The bacteria can take up to a week to kill, if the venom doesn't do the job. My oldest knew this before we got there... where did SHE learn it??
We also saw this pretty starfish...
I'll post more pictures later! The birds were beautiful, too! :o)
For me, the Denver Zoo puts the Los Angeles Zoo to shame... really. It is GINORMOUS!!! What I find funny though is that every time I say we went to the zoo, someone runs through a list of animals asking if we saw them... and they always ask if we saw bears. Oddly, I don't recall seeing any bears... save for the 2 polar bears.
We also saw lions and a tiger... you really get that close to the lion (with glass between you, of course!). For the tiger, I used my telephoto lens, but it was only about 5 feet away behind glass. You can view them from outside, too... but it was so stinkin' cold out, we liked the buildings :o)
We also saw giraffes; an adult, a 'teenager' and a baby that was born last August. Would you believe that the baby was SIX FEET TALL when it was BORN!? :o)
There is this little window when you exit the 'feline' building, the girls went to see what was on the other side and this beautiful cheetah walked up to them! There may be glass there, but I think we all jumped! LOL They really are gorgeous though, aren't they??
After all those felines, (polar) bears and giraffes (oh my!)... we skeedaddled into the 'Rainforest'. There we saw PIRANHAS and 2 Komodo Dragons! Doesn't the dragon look likes its smiling? :o) Did you know that a Komodo dragon bites its 'victim' and then the bacteria in its venom sets about killing? The bacteria can take up to a week to kill, if the venom doesn't do the job. My oldest knew this before we got there... where did SHE learn it??
We also saw this pretty starfish...
I'll post more pictures later! The birds were beautiful, too! :o)
Sunday, January 11, 2009
My little girl is growing up!
In about 3 hours, my oldest 'little' girl will be exactly 10 years old! I look at her and I am amazed... God gave me this beautiful little girl to take care of and love... how did I get so lucky!?
Not to say she is perfect, or an angel... really, we're all pretty far from that, right? :o) But, to me anyway, she is a great kid! Somedays, I want to pick her up by the back of her panties and throw her through a window... but that's only because she is growing up into a 'tween'. I hate that word 'tween', talk about making our kids grow up faster! We used to have infants, toddlers, kids and teenagers... now we have 'tweens'. Ugh!
She loves Hannah Montana (and by extension, Miley Cyrus), the Jonas Brothers (her favorite JoBro is Joe... mine too, he's adorable!), nail polish (in crazy shades!!), make-up (which I only let her wear on our 'sleepover' nights) and Barbies. She also still sleeps with her teddy bear 'Ager', who USED to be Edgar when I got him for her 1st birthday... but when she was learning to spell she thought it was Ager, and so Ager he is. :o) He goes with her everywhere and she CANNOT sleep without him. God forbid he ever get lost... we'd be in TROUBLE! They don't make bears like Ager anymore.
She likes school, but HATES to write... so essays are sheer drudgery for her, and for me! :o) But she loves to learn! She also loves to read! She reads Judy Moody books, Landon Snow books, she has even read Anne of Green Gables! (and she loved it so much we got Anne of Avonlea!) If you haven't read the Landon Snow books, you should! They're a bit like Harry Potter AND the Narnia books rolled together!
I'd like to take you on a pictorial voyage... so just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a little girl, that started back in Cali-forn in the town of Cambria. :o) Enjoy!
2 months old... rockin' the Pooh wear...
1 year old... prerequisite Wal-mart photo
2 almost 3... with her cousin, Indiana and Uncle Jon (yes, uncle...he's 14 years younger than me). Silly picture, I think she was trying to escape :o)
4 years old... me and my wacky little girl! Where oh where did those beautiful curls go?! :o(
5 years old... beautiful eyes and lopped off hair :o)
6 years old... playing on the beach in Morro Bay, CA. I love pigtails, all my girls get stuck with 'em! :o)
7 years old... oh man, we're in trouble and she KNOWS it! :o)
8 year old... getting too cool to pose cute for mom...
9 years old... in her Easter finest...
Day before 10 years old... at the Denver Zoo with her sister :o)
Happy birthday!
Not to say she is perfect, or an angel... really, we're all pretty far from that, right? :o) But, to me anyway, she is a great kid! Somedays, I want to pick her up by the back of her panties and throw her through a window... but that's only because she is growing up into a 'tween'. I hate that word 'tween', talk about making our kids grow up faster! We used to have infants, toddlers, kids and teenagers... now we have 'tweens'. Ugh!
She loves Hannah Montana (and by extension, Miley Cyrus), the Jonas Brothers (her favorite JoBro is Joe... mine too, he's adorable!), nail polish (in crazy shades!!), make-up (which I only let her wear on our 'sleepover' nights) and Barbies. She also still sleeps with her teddy bear 'Ager', who USED to be Edgar when I got him for her 1st birthday... but when she was learning to spell she thought it was Ager, and so Ager he is. :o) He goes with her everywhere and she CANNOT sleep without him. God forbid he ever get lost... we'd be in TROUBLE! They don't make bears like Ager anymore.
She likes school, but HATES to write... so essays are sheer drudgery for her, and for me! :o) But she loves to learn! She also loves to read! She reads Judy Moody books, Landon Snow books, she has even read Anne of Green Gables! (and she loved it so much we got Anne of Avonlea!) If you haven't read the Landon Snow books, you should! They're a bit like Harry Potter AND the Narnia books rolled together!
I'd like to take you on a pictorial voyage... so just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a little girl, that started back in Cali-forn in the town of Cambria. :o) Enjoy!
2 months old... rockin' the Pooh wear...
1 year old... prerequisite Wal-mart photo
2 almost 3... with her cousin, Indiana and Uncle Jon (yes, uncle...he's 14 years younger than me). Silly picture, I think she was trying to escape :o)
4 years old... me and my wacky little girl! Where oh where did those beautiful curls go?! :o(
5 years old... beautiful eyes and lopped off hair :o)
6 years old... playing on the beach in Morro Bay, CA. I love pigtails, all my girls get stuck with 'em! :o)
7 years old... oh man, we're in trouble and she KNOWS it! :o)
8 year old... getting too cool to pose cute for mom...
9 years old... in her Easter finest...
Day before 10 years old... at the Denver Zoo with her sister :o)
Happy birthday!
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
What was I thinking?!?!
We are about to embark on a terrifying adventure... Kiera's biological father is coming to stay IN OUR HOUSE for a WEEK starting TOMORROW!!!
Who's insane idea was this you may be asking? Mine... sort of. You see, back when we lived in California, we made a deal that he could stay with us when he came to Denver... that way he wouldn't put up a stink with us moving 3 states away. It worked, we're here.
BUT
He calls before Christmas and says that he is going to come out for Kiera's birthday. We were like, "Okay, sounds good." And then he drops the bomb that he is flying in on January 8th and leaving on January 13th!! So he will be here 5 nights, 4 WHOLE days and 2 half days.... not that I'm counting. We were thinking he'd come out for a weekend... fly out Friday, leave Sunday or Monday. But this is so typical of him... making plans, paying for his plans and THEN telling us.
Oh well... we will deal with it. :o) I'm a trooper. Most days anyway.
So we've got a free day at the zoo this Saturday through our homeschooling group... that is one day down :o) A few more to go. Thankfully my husband's parents are awesome, they've even offered to let our visitor stay with them! I may take them up on it if he drives me nuts enough! LOL
Who's insane idea was this you may be asking? Mine... sort of. You see, back when we lived in California, we made a deal that he could stay with us when he came to Denver... that way he wouldn't put up a stink with us moving 3 states away. It worked, we're here.
BUT
He calls before Christmas and says that he is going to come out for Kiera's birthday. We were like, "Okay, sounds good." And then he drops the bomb that he is flying in on January 8th and leaving on January 13th!! So he will be here 5 nights, 4 WHOLE days and 2 half days.... not that I'm counting. We were thinking he'd come out for a weekend... fly out Friday, leave Sunday or Monday. But this is so typical of him... making plans, paying for his plans and THEN telling us.
Oh well... we will deal with it. :o) I'm a trooper. Most days anyway.
So we've got a free day at the zoo this Saturday through our homeschooling group... that is one day down :o) A few more to go. Thankfully my husband's parents are awesome, they've even offered to let our visitor stay with them! I may take them up on it if he drives me nuts enough! LOL
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Meet my family...
I thought I would take a moment to introduce my family.... because I can :o) And no one really reads this stuff anyway! :o)
This is me... sadly, since I'm almost always on the clicking end of the camera this is one of my rare pictures. I'm 29, for now. :o) I will turn 30 in less than a month. No, I'm not worried about it. I'm only as old as my kids make me feel! :o)
This is my adorable, goofy, loving, amazing husband. We've been married for 9 years. We met online (on Yahoo IM), and married 4 months later. He's been a gas station clerk, an incredible tow truck driver and is currently a milkman... really :o) He'll be 39 in February. Yeah, he's older. Would you believe that his younger sister is actually 6 months YOUNGER than ME?! :o)
These are my girls. Our girls. Our wild children who we love more than life itself, but occasion we want to throw them out the window. :o) My youngest just turned 2 in October. She is a handful, but so stinkin' cute! I don't know where she got her curls from, but I love them... except when I have to brush them. Next to her is my oldest. She'll be 10 in less than 2 weeks! Oh man! That is a scary thought. She thinks she is a teenager, I swear. But she still loves Hannah Montana and the Jonas Brothers (her favorite is Joe, of course.... but really, I understand!). Next to HER is my middle girl (with a HUGE middle girl syndrome!). She is 6. She is also amazingly profound sometimes. She loves to sing. She wants to be a chef like Emeril more than anything though, ever since she was 2!
That's my family. Now that you know about us, and what we look like, you know who to avoid :o) Just kidding! :o) Happy 2009!
This is me... sadly, since I'm almost always on the clicking end of the camera this is one of my rare pictures. I'm 29, for now. :o) I will turn 30 in less than a month. No, I'm not worried about it. I'm only as old as my kids make me feel! :o)
This is my adorable, goofy, loving, amazing husband. We've been married for 9 years. We met online (on Yahoo IM), and married 4 months later. He's been a gas station clerk, an incredible tow truck driver and is currently a milkman... really :o) He'll be 39 in February. Yeah, he's older. Would you believe that his younger sister is actually 6 months YOUNGER than ME?! :o)
These are my girls. Our girls. Our wild children who we love more than life itself, but occasion we want to throw them out the window. :o) My youngest just turned 2 in October. She is a handful, but so stinkin' cute! I don't know where she got her curls from, but I love them... except when I have to brush them. Next to her is my oldest. She'll be 10 in less than 2 weeks! Oh man! That is a scary thought. She thinks she is a teenager, I swear. But she still loves Hannah Montana and the Jonas Brothers (her favorite is Joe, of course.... but really, I understand!). Next to HER is my middle girl (with a HUGE middle girl syndrome!). She is 6. She is also amazingly profound sometimes. She loves to sing. She wants to be a chef like Emeril more than anything though, ever since she was 2!
That's my family. Now that you know about us, and what we look like, you know who to avoid :o) Just kidding! :o) Happy 2009!
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