Looking for Chickenpox?

I am a member of a local homeschool group. One of the services it provides is an online classified ad that you can list stuff freely as well as let people know you are looking for a certain something. I was reading yesterday's post and there was one that said:

Looking for Chickenpox!
"My my kids are young and I'd rather they catch it than have the more risky vaccine"
Please contact....

Maybe it's just me, but I got the biggest smile out of that. I mean how helpful can you be than to share the varicella-zoster virus with your fellow homeschooler. ~Smile~

Ok...maybe it's just me that found this cute and funny

Loose Dog & O's Garden

We had a peaceful weekend. Our dog is now able to be free at night and he loves it so much better than sleeping in his crate. He has been well behaved and the only downside is that he circles my feet as I go to the bathroom in the middle of the night. But other than that, its nice to have him kinda patrolling the halls.

Our new favorite weekend  meal is s*up, sal*d, and bre*dsticks that we call, "M's Garden" instead of that restaurants garden that starts with the O. I had lots of helpers cutting, chopping for our salad bar and stirring of a great potato soup. Crescent roll dough that is rolled out and cut into strips makes great light and flaky bre*dsticks.

I had to leave church early this Sunday as my eye started swelling shut and I was afraid I would not be able to drive home if I waited any longer. I think I had an allergic reaction to someones lotion or perfume. Sometimes I can be a bit sensitive to them if I shake hand and forget to not rub my eyes or face.

Good school progress is being made. Kindergarten is learning to write sentences with nouns, verbs and adjectives. Very funny and cute. I will have to scan some to share. 3rd grade is finally catching up in math and language arts. We had gotten behind during vacation and just never did catch up. 7th grade was out of school for 1 week, but she is doing better. She still has a bit of a sinus headache, but hopefully she will be well by Wednesday as we open our personal needs closet and then the students have to work the local food bank on Thursday. Busy, fun week.

Impromptu Field Trip

Yesterday I had to drive my mom to a meeting and had planned to just park and read while waiting. As I was driving to look for free parking (we were downtown) we drove by a guy using a backhoe to tear down an old house. The boys went WILD!!! So I circled back and parked directly across from the work site and they had a great time. This guy was very skilled because the house sat very close to a major one-way, 4 lane street and he did not have any cones or lights set up and never dropped a single thing into the road with lots of traffic. As a bonus to us (unbeknownst to the worker) he also tore down the house next to it. The houses were huge and while old, had neat features like beautiful original woodwork, very nice light fixtures and 1 had a very old steel tub. I was very surprised that they had not been stripped of all of that before being torn down. I took great pictures on my cell phone, but it is a new phone and I cannot figure out how to get the picture from the phone to the PC.

(I figured out how to send pics to my e-mail, so here is one.)

Anyway... it turned out to be a nice impromptu field trip that made the time pass easily with out any bickering from the back seat. 7th grade at first found the action to be entertaining, but then she started feeling like the homes could have been fixed up for some homeless person or family. She and my mom really have a heart for the homeless.

Monday Morning

Although one of my kiddos is having a major morning meltdown, we have started back up pretty good. This week we send out our fliers for our Personal Needs Closet which will open for the first time on January 19th. We are excited and hoping to service lots of families.

We will observe the moment of silence today at 11am for the families and injured regarding the shooting in Arizona.


~Sigh~

Wow Ya'll

My kindergartener just asked Jesus to come into his heart.

Yipee!!!

Progress Reports and Fire Drill

Progress reports:

3rd Grade

7th Grade

Kindergarten

Fire Drill:

January 1, 2011. 10:50 pm

Studies have recently said that you have an average of 3 minuets to get out. So that is our base goal. These are our times from when the alarm started to reaching the patio door.

3rd grade: 20 seconds

7th grade: 32 seconds

Kindergarten: 3 mins 45 seconds after having his name called and told, "Fire!" He also stopped to put on his slippers,  so... he gets to practice again.

My public safety message: check your batteries, practice escape routes, stay safe!!

Starting Up

We are starting back to school tomorrow and the kids went to bed early with excitement. I on the other hand cannot get to sleep...again. ~Sigh~

We really had a nice holiday and as always... d*llar st*re Christmas was fantastic! I even splurged this year and bought everyone 2 or 3 things. Woo hoo! Spent $27!

Never did complete progress reports for 1st semester, but everyone is doing well.

Gonna try to go to bed again.