We See the Light...

... and we don't think it is a rushing train.

I think we are going to be done with school somewhere around the 20th of May. I am so excited because Momma needs a vacation more than any of these little people. I updated progress reports today and had to laugh at the differences in attendance. They do all go to the same school don't they? LOL!



Sad News

I admit... I am on facebook, but not so much for the social networking as much as for farmville and cityville. I like the games. I do. For the last few weeks, 1 of my neighbors has not been farming or gifting. His crops had withered and when I messaged or inboxed him, I got no response. I noticed on his wall that others were trying to contact him.

Today is his birthday and when I went to wish him well, someone else had said, "Happy Birthday up there in Heaven T!"

GASP!!!

I sent a message to his cousin and found out that he had suddenly died in his sleep 4 weeks ago today. I have never met him. I only knew him through facebook games, but he was the nicest guy who answered questions whenever I needed, sent gifts constantly and had tons of tons of friends.

With all that is going on in the world....

Rest In Peace, T

Happy Birthday, Jackson!

Today is Jackson's 7th birthday! He has been counting down all month. Jackson is a pretty intense little dude with all the classic signs of being the "class clown". He struggles with APD, but works very hard in school, impressing me everyday with his reading abilities. He loves cars, sunglasses and baseball caps.

Happy Birthday, Kid!!

Happy Easter

I know this is coming at the end of the day, but we had a great weekend away.

Here are pics from today...

The owner of the lake house that we rented had plastic eggs hidden when we got there and she had these wooden mask that the children could color. Such a nice surprise and the kids loved the egg hunt. The weather was beautiful for the weekend and we enjoyed the outdoors.

Surprise Vacation

We will be leaving for a surprise vacation and it has been so hard to keep from the children. I have been doing laundry for the last few days as normal, but pulling items out bit by bit to put aside for packing. No one noticed until today when 7th grade said, "Hey Mom...it kinda looks like you are packing or something.  Are we going somewhere?" I started asking about chores and she exited stage left with a quickness. LOL!

We did Entertaining Angels again today and had so much fun. We served 3 new families. One was a mom with 10 children! She basically cleaned us out. My kids made a big sign and put it outside and stood out there waving trying to get more people to come in, but mostly just got stares. We will have to do another big shop when we come back.

Down to 5 & Spring Break with Snow?

I am back down to a mere 5 kids. LOL!  The little one that I was doing respite with went back today with very little fanfare. It's funny how 1 kid gone makes the house so much quieter.

We are suppose to start our spring break this week, but with us waking up to snow this morning and rain planned for the rest of the week, it kinda dampens my plans.

Last year we went to our first Easter egg hunts at local churches. The kids hated it! We decided to have our own this year, so I have about 70 plastic eggs filled with stickers, candy and trinkets.

7th grade is the owner of a brand new C**lpix S3000 Nik*n Digital camera and she got a pretty good deal on it. She babysat for 3 weeks and earned a nice amount of pay. Lots of pics with googly eyes to come. ~Smile~

Full House

We have had a full house this week with Jordan co-babysitting  a 12 week old and I got an emergency respite placement Monday evening. What a little manipulator we met. I had to laugh at some of her ploys and had to crack up at the response that my kids had to her behavior. They had a "does that really work?" look on their faces and then when I stayed consistent they had the "Now you know what we have to deal with" look. LOL!!!

Overall, she fell in with the group pretty quick. She seemed to enjoy school here and really liked working at the food bank. I love the lady that runs the food bank as I brought in a extra kid in a Rotties shirt and the lady just put her right to work, stocking shelves and packing orders.

I was suppose to have a yard sell this weekend, but the weather was not so conducive, so another time.

Have a great weekend.