Week in Review

It's been a week of "slacking off" around here - easy to tell by the late hour of today's post. We had a very good time doing too much of each of the following:


(Click on the photo to see the notes)

*Visiting the pool in the evenings

*Reading silly stories and (finally) picking The Boxcar Children back up

*Making yo-yos and sewing by hand

*Playing legos

*Playing Wii

*Reading Jack and Jill (Alex Cross #3) - me NOT the kids

*Watching 90210 (again me NOT the kids)

*Buying and then eating lots (ok REALLY lots) of gourmet food from Harry's and Krispy Kreme (YES - KK IS gourmet)

*Watching movies from Blockbuster (because I can't find two that I need to return to Netflix)

*Painting with watercolor crayons

*Going to lunch with Grampy and then playing in his HUGE (and doggie-poo free) backyard.

*And right now the kids and Daddy are at the movies seeing Wall E (thereby giving me 2 hours of blissful silence)

*Writing and sending cards to friends

In the midst of all this playing I did get some household things taken care of - like:

*picking up the Honda from the shop (again, but hey it's still cheaper than a car payment - and it was just the battery Praise God!)

*Re-hanging Grampy's curtains and helping him with the computer

*Registering the kids for Bible School (which begins tomorrow evening)

*Registering the kids for a homeschool art program offered by our church

*Cleaning up the den and dining room (ok, we did that today because after a week of playing as listed above it was a TOTAL disaster area)

*Deciding (mostly) on the homeschool method and curriculum we will use for the next few years - more on that later.

*Oh and I blogged for you guys EVERY day this week (it's really for me as I LOVE each of you and the comments you leave and the blogs I read daily).

WOW - when I list it all out like that I guess there wasn't as much slacking as it seemed - now I know why I'm so tired at the end of the day - Phew!

Thanks for all your love and support this week - it is fantastic. I truly enjoy your friendship.

I'll keep you posted!

AmyDe

Ever Have a Do-Over?

We all have those days when we get up late and everything just seems edgy and off all day long. You know the ones - the days when you yell at the kids, snap at your husband, and are rude to the telemarketer [although just doing her job - she's got a sucky job - sorry if that's your job] who calls and interrupts while you're trying to get dinner on the table and you only answered the non-caller-id phone because you thought it was your husband calling to say (please God) that he's almost home. On such days I often go to bed wishing for an old fashioned "do-over."

Yesterday morning Anna woke up early (for Anna) and was quite charming - UNTIL Toby graced the scene. Once Toby woke up Anna became - well I could tell it was going to be one of those days. In an effort to squelch the beasties I sent my eldest (all of 7-1/2) back to bed for a "do-over." I told her she needed to lay in her bed a little longer to see if she could adjust her attitude and start the morning over with a new and better one.

Yay Mom! It worked (this time anyway) - my brief moment of brilliance.

Grace to all of you needing a "do-over" and prayers to help you (help us all) through those days, OH those days.

I'll keep you posted!

AmyDe

Toby's Favorite Trick

Disturbing No? He's 4 there. Loves to show that to everyone he meets. He always gets a laugh. For an encore he sticks his tongue UP his nose.

We're so proud!

I'll keep you posted!

AmyDe

Anna Sews

We bought Anna a new sewing machine; a Janome Jem Gold 2. It is perfect and easy to use and lovely; a little (and big) girl's dream machine.

Anna wants to sew all day everyday - like this:


and this (finishing by hand):


She makes things for herself, her brother, just because, but mostly for - the cats - like all of these:




The quilt blocks were in the scrap bin, a long-ago abandoned project and Anna made them into pillows herself.

Apart from keeping her safe with the machine, I don't help Anna at all (like she'd let me)and she just goes to town with her imagination and her new machine.

I'll Keep You Posted!


AmyDe