It’s the Little Things that make it a Good Day
Here are a few little things that made the rest of my Saturday a good day. I went to Office Depot – I LOVE OFFICE DEPOT! {G} I have been trying to find the perfect calendar for YEARS. It’s silly. I’ve been going into office supply stores for at least 4 years trying to find the perfect wall calendar…it needed to be large. I wanted to be able to color code all family members AND inside/outside/chapel commitments. Becky has a big Boone board on her wall. That had potential. I went to look and didn’t find one like it…but I did get a 30 day calendar that is laminated. I decided to use it for a week and that gives me 7 long columns for the days of the week. It has a notes section to the right of the calendar and I wrote out the color coded key…..I posted it in the library right outside the older 3 boys’ room. Tonight Josiah was writing his work hours on the chart with the RIGHT COLOR INK….life is good.
While at Office Depot I also asked if they could remove the plastic comb bindings on two cookbooks I’d purchased on eBay. I got “Whole Foods for the Whole Family” and “Whole Foods from the Whole World” – both La Leche League cookbooks. WELLLLLL…..I looked for weeks to find the same edition that my friend Adrienne has. While looking I bid on a newer edition. I won the bid and they threw in the 2nd cookbook for free. LOL I then compared the index and format of the older edition and the newer edition. I discovered that the only recipes missing from the new cookbook are the “kids’ cookbook” and I KNOW how to make most those things anyway. :::snort:::: I liked the new format – bigger print…..but I liked the old binding – spiral vs. plastic comb. I gave the older one to a friend who was excited to get it. I kept the plastic comb binding editions – but one of them has ALREADY broken. I HATE that – have I mentioned that???? The helpful assistant manager at Office Depot cut the old holes off and punched it for me. Then he made a color copy of the front of the books (because he couldn’t cut through the board) and we put each one in a folder that has a plastic front and back….and it looks the same but is SPRIAL and can lay flat now etc. This made my day. For years I’ve snipped the bindings on big books and had them hole punched and put into page protectors and notebooks….but I’d never thought about having a spiral binding put on……I think I’ll take Wisdoms’ Way of Learning in next…that binding is killing me too. I’m psychotic…..
We went to hear 180 – our contemporary/alternative/student service band play at an outdoor concert tonight. It was a beautiful night, beautiful setting and they did a great job. They are really good. They often sound like the sound tracks on the radio. LOL
Mike, Jamin, Nolan, Zander, Stacia and I went out for a late night walk.
Zander told me he loved me at bed time.
It’s been a great day.
Saturday, June 24, 2006
Boys will be Boys
Our boys met up with Steve and Debby’s boys at the base’s paint ball field today. Mike likes to do this with the boys and I hear they all had a good time. Evidently this is a growing sport on the base as there were 30 people there instead of the customary 8 – 10.
The highlight of the day to hear Jared and Josiah tell it is when they “rushed” another group. They were out of ammunition but managed to run in and get the other group to surrender by the sheer audacity of their move.
While they played we played at home – sort of. We cleaned up from last night. We made two French Strawberry Pies. We got another load of apples drying. We got Stacia to take a nap. All in all it has been a busy morning for all.
Our boys met up with Steve and Debby’s boys at the base’s paint ball field today. Mike likes to do this with the boys and I hear they all had a good time. Evidently this is a growing sport on the base as there were 30 people there instead of the customary 8 – 10.
The highlight of the day to hear Jared and Josiah tell it is when they “rushed” another group. They were out of ammunition but managed to run in and get the other group to surrender by the sheer audacity of their move.
While they played we played at home – sort of. We cleaned up from last night. We made two French Strawberry Pies. We got another load of apples drying. We got Stacia to take a nap. All in all it has been a busy morning for all.
COMMENTS- Once again I've not been right on top of answering comments and will do them right here.
Q: How did you get your tickers into your blog?
Lis in NY,
I click on the link by my tickers and create a ticker. I'm assuming you've had no trouble doing this? Then I click on the "configure ticker" button. I then scroll down to where it says "html" and copy that code. I go to blogger.com and click template and then paste the html code into the template. For my placement I paste it after all the beginning stuff that seems to give the general lay out of the blog and beofre the "profile container". It comes right under the (can't type out the code or blogger won't publish this LOL) part in my html code. I played around with pasting it in different spots until I found one where it would work. I surely should take a computer course one of these days. LOL
Jodi re: co-op jobs
Thanks for this reminder. I am thinking bout what other jobs I could delegate on co-op days. I have sevral that have been coming each month to help with unloading, inventorying and filling orders. I have another lady who has come twice in a row to help with splits. Several pop in and out to help with splits. I hadn't thought of having someone else being the cashier. It would certainly free up time for me to visit with people. BUT I pre-pay the whole order and I would hate to find that someone else made a mistake that cost me say hundreds of dollars....it's easier to take if *I* make the mistake. LOL I could maybe ask someone to be deliberate about watching children during the pick up time.....I need to give this some more thought.
also not in the FG book so I told the kids it's just for me
Jen, THANK YOU! I had not even checked the FG list. I knew that the colas, root beer and Prime Lime that we'd gotten were all on the list. I wonder why the Dr. Becker isn't? Could it be that it is just new or does it have something in it the others don't. I checked out the tantaric acid (or however you spell that) and it is from crushed grapes....not sure what else in Dr. Becker is different than the colas and root beer.
Hmmm how did your kids morph into my kids, sounds like they play a lot the same!
As you know, Jodi, for years Charlotte Mason has been one of my homeschool heroes (as were Dr. Raymond Moore and Ruth Beechick). All three talk about the importance of children having down time (at home) to be able to play. This playing reinforces all they've learned. It gives them a chance to integreate the information they learn in school......so I've attempted (with varying success) to keep our "out- of- the-home" committments to a minimum so that we are sure to have lots of down time at home. This provides lots of time for imaginative play.....and this is the very best sort of review I've come across in my 16 years of homeschooling.
Our homes do sound very similar, don't they? Could it be that we both are aware of the natural stages of child development and work with them instead of against them? It's funny that our homes are so close because I do use a curriculum and you unschool - but I think we both fun school and simply use different tools to accomplish the same goals. My home and schoool sound more like yours than they sound like many of the fellow T OG users I hear of. I learned early on that curriculum is a tool and not our master.....and that I can take most anything and make it work for a CM/fun schooling type education. I simply believe that the curriculum is a buffet and that I can pick and choose as needed for each child. Don't box us in. I seem to have a thing about molds - don't I? I don't like them for myself and I don't like to try to force my little blessings into a box either. LOL
That's most the comments. RE ACCIDENT comments - thanks for your support. Jen in AZ - thanks for the reminder of the verse on my blog that day - I'd not even checked. "The Lord will keep you from all harm -- he will watch over your life; the Lord will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore.Psalm 121:7-8" I'm going to begin praying this verse over some loved one's lives. Thanks.
Well, it is now 5:23 and the kids are all settled again in bed. I think I'll try to get another hour or so of sleep......and typing this has proven to me that I've worn out another keyboard. LOL
D
Q: How did you get your tickers into your blog?
Lis in NY,
I click on the link by my tickers and create a ticker. I'm assuming you've had no trouble doing this? Then I click on the "configure ticker" button. I then scroll down to where it says "html" and copy that code. I go to blogger.com and click template and then paste the html code into the template. For my placement I paste it after all the beginning stuff that seems to give the general lay out of the blog and beofre the "profile container". It comes right under the (can't type out the code or blogger won't publish this LOL) part in my html code. I played around with pasting it in different spots until I found one where it would work. I surely should take a computer course one of these days. LOL
Jodi re: co-op jobs
Thanks for this reminder. I am thinking bout what other jobs I could delegate on co-op days. I have sevral that have been coming each month to help with unloading, inventorying and filling orders. I have another lady who has come twice in a row to help with splits. Several pop in and out to help with splits. I hadn't thought of having someone else being the cashier. It would certainly free up time for me to visit with people. BUT I pre-pay the whole order and I would hate to find that someone else made a mistake that cost me say hundreds of dollars....it's easier to take if *I* make the mistake. LOL I could maybe ask someone to be deliberate about watching children during the pick up time.....I need to give this some more thought.
also not in the FG book so I told the kids it's just for me
Jen, THANK YOU! I had not even checked the FG list. I knew that the colas, root beer and Prime Lime that we'd gotten were all on the list. I wonder why the Dr. Becker isn't? Could it be that it is just new or does it have something in it the others don't. I checked out the tantaric acid (or however you spell that) and it is from crushed grapes....not sure what else in Dr. Becker is different than the colas and root beer.
Hmmm how did your kids morph into my kids, sounds like they play a lot the same!
As you know, Jodi, for years Charlotte Mason has been one of my homeschool heroes (as were Dr. Raymond Moore and Ruth Beechick). All three talk about the importance of children having down time (at home) to be able to play. This playing reinforces all they've learned. It gives them a chance to integreate the information they learn in school......so I've attempted (with varying success) to keep our "out- of- the-home" committments to a minimum so that we are sure to have lots of down time at home. This provides lots of time for imaginative play.....and this is the very best sort of review I've come across in my 16 years of homeschooling.
Our homes do sound very similar, don't they? Could it be that we both are aware of the natural stages of child development and work with them instead of against them? It's funny that our homes are so close because I do use a curriculum and you unschool - but I think we both fun school and simply use different tools to accomplish the same goals. My home and schoool sound more like yours than they sound like many of the fellow T OG users I hear of. I learned early on that curriculum is a tool and not our master.....and that I can take most anything and make it work for a CM/fun schooling type education. I simply believe that the curriculum is a buffet and that I can pick and choose as needed for each child. Don't box us in. I seem to have a thing about molds - don't I? I don't like them for myself and I don't like to try to force my little blessings into a box either. LOL
That's most the comments. RE ACCIDENT comments - thanks for your support. Jen in AZ - thanks for the reminder of the verse on my blog that day - I'd not even checked. "The Lord will keep you from all harm -- he will watch over your life; the Lord will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore.Psalm 121:7-8" I'm going to begin praying this verse over some loved one's lives. Thanks.
Well, it is now 5:23 and the kids are all settled again in bed. I think I'll try to get another hour or so of sleep......and typing this has proven to me that I've worn out another keyboard. LOL
D
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