Sunday, September 24, 2006

Redeeming the Hour

It is after mid-night but I have finished! I ordered all videos for the first 9 weeks of school from Netflix. I made a list of all the library books for the first 9 weeks. I ordered quite a few of the spine books that I need for the first 9 weeks.

NOW - I'm feeling better prepared for school to start. I'm going to bed and praying I wake up to school before noon. LOL
SUNDAY

The day began VERY early. I decided to get up and study I John before Sunday School. I’m not sure how Monday is going to go – and really I hate feeling “pushed” when prepping for a Bible Study. I did some more thinking and a few word studies; I think I’m set.

We went to Sunday School and then out for breakfast/lunch. We meant to go back tonight to church but during the afternoon Josiah began feeling ill….and I was right in the middle of lesson prep when it was time to leave. We decided to stay home.

Meanwhile, during the afternoon, we tried to watch “Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy”. This was an OLD show – 1980’s. I thought it would be funny but old enough to be safe. WRONG. The theology was terrible in it, the acting was strange and finally a naked man showed up. We popped it out and will send it back tomorrow. I planned school. I also made sure I had any notes down for small group for tomorrow’s Mom’s Night Out. I’m leading a group that will discuss homeschool methods. Search as I did, I still haven’t found the old standby that all honest homeschool mom’s will admit they use at least ONCE a year or so: “the make it up as you go” method. The kids watched some Hogan’s Heroes. Jamin, Arielle and I went out to find the cache near our house. We found it….cactus, deer and a cache is VERY bad shape.

The girls arrived in WA. Thus another year begins. We will begin school tomorrow. Sorta/kinda. We have stuff that the kids can begin and really we have most the stuff…but I’m still needing some planning time for some of the electives that Jamin wants to do. I also want to take time to gather material for at least the first 9 weeks (books, hands on material etc). We’ll begin but *I* won’t stress about how much we get done this week. The children on the other hand are probably going to stress because some of them are much more “traditional” than I in their expectations of what “school” is. LOL
RECIPE

Someone asked me to post a recipe for muffins...but I thought it was a comment on their blog....I can't find it now...so if someone wanted our banana muffin recipe they need to let me know and I'll email it to them. LOL
BLOG COMMENTS:

I've set blogger over and over to let me know when comments are made so that I don't miss them - but they aren't consistenly doing so. LOL Let me answer a few right here:

**The deer you can feed so close sound cool, it sounds like here are many of them.**

The deer are cool. There are lots of babies right now and that is fun to watch. Our goal is to feed them really, really close...like hand...but at this point we throw and get out of their way and they work their way up. At night they wander our neighborhood. Many leave corn on their walk.

**sleepless kids**

Seems to be the time of the year. Let's keep track and see if this happens every 3rd week of September. LOL

**computer breaks as incentives**

Jodi - I'm going to have to implement this myself...breaks for ME for a job well done. LOL

** Bri always wants to go for the ones that have us hiking miles in the woods!**

Debbie, we love caches that take us through the woods - but Friday the weather was still 96* - the snakes would be sure to be awake. I'm thinking it will be another month or so before we head back to the state park - miles and miles of woods to tramp through! With Mike gone, I'm content to find the park and grabs and the ones hidden at malls and city parks. LOL

Renee - praying as you wait and wait to get out of TLF. I do think you could geocache in Germany. One local cacher has been responding to my logs on geocache and saying that he has cached in Iraq, Israel and Egypt. You go to geocaching.com and type in your country etc to see what is hidden in your country. You'd be pleasantly surprised to see how widespread this "game" has become.

**I think you are very brave doing so much geocaching with a snake fear. You just might make that 120!**

Thank you, thank you Jodi for remembering my phobia and recognizing how brave I AM. LOL

I think I'm caught up again, now.

Remember ladies, cut up your greens and keep choosing joy! {G}