Monday, October 16, 2006

Dad Update

My dad is NOT having surgery on Tuesday a.m. He had a root canal last week and got an infection. They will not do a bone surgery (don't think they'd do any surgery) while you have any sort of infection. He is scheduled for next Tuesday at 5 a.m. He sounds more upbeat today.

They did find a lawyer that seems to be reputable and ethical.

Prayer requests:
1. His spirits to be buoyed
2. Protection for the one lone broken screw in the next week
3. Continued healing of the bone
4. All the Workman's Comp stuff
MONDAY

As Mondays go - it was a good one. We plan Mondays and Tuesdays to be our HEAVY school days. We got a late start today because I was EXHAUSTED.

I had been studying I John and was determined to lead a more disciplined life. I may write more about that later.....but time is of the essence here. I'd been thinking and praying about that for over a week. I had even told some friends that I needed to be more disciplined in my time management (eating, exercising and such too - basically I'm a MESS with Mike gone...weee...live for the moment :::snort:::). I found it ironic that *my* computer crashed. That certainly helped me with computer time management. I don't remember enough blog addresses to visit the blogs I tend to visit after the kids are in bed, email is a pain and so I'm doing little, I set all lists to no-mail....wow I have time again.

SO...armed with new-found determination, and no TV or computer time available, I headed to the kitchen table with my Bible and notebook. I had a great couple of hours and was just heading for bed when I heard Stacia cry. Zander had woken her up. ::::Grrrrrr:::: It took me a full hour to get her back down. It was now 11 p.m. and I wasn't in bed. I got to bed and laid there....good prayer time, however. Finally drifted off at about midnight. Stacia woke up at 1 a.m. and would NOT go back down until 4:30 a.m. I left a note on the table telling the kids not to wake me up at 6 but to try to get started on table school. I woke up at about 8 and they had done well.

I went to Netflix to reserve movies. We have 5 of them that we want for school for this week and next. I went ahead and upgraded how many movies we can have out at a time while we are needing so many for school. It certainly is cheaper than renting or buying them.

I decided that I will not go into depth with WW 1 for Arielle and Nolan. With Mike deployed, I don't think this is a good idea. We read War Games last week and we all cried ....and they've had many questions. I decided to spend this week focusing on other events in the same time period...briefly explaining WW1 - and they'll see the movies...but not dwelling solely on that. We finished up "Looking For a Home" (Orphan Train book) and may begin the second one. I had bought DK's 20th Century for children...and Jared prefers "The Century for Young People". I was glad to have it though, because I simply pulled it open - went through some pages with the younger two and we picked out some events to cover. I plan to cover the San Francisco Earthquake, Building Mt Rushmore, Wright Brothers and the Titanic. I have another DK type WW1 book that I'll pick and choose some things out of for them.

After school Zander, Arielle and Nolan and I tried to head to the library and Hobby Lobby while Stacia napped. She only napped 30 minutes. {sigh} We did go to Hobby Lobby and found a model of the Wright plane, the Titanic and an electrical car that is supposed to "go". We'll see. I'm not sure that the three of us can put them together...and it is quite apparent that the older three boys are skeptical...but it's SCHOOL so maybe if we work at it a bit...we'll succeed. :::snort:::

I came home and made Enchiladas, rice, corn, salad, fruit plate.....and Arielle and Nolan thought I was terribly mean because I gave them each 1/4 of an enchilada, 3 corn kernels and 5 grains of rice and told them to eat it. They kept saying, "is that enough" and I kept saying "Don't ask me - are you finished?". They are slowly working on earning their tickets but at this rate it will take them much more than the 3 - 6 months I anticipated to earn their goals. It gets discouraging to cook for folks when they are to busy to eat or picky to eat what you fix. At least STACIA will eat anything....including food from the garbage. UGH.

We read 40 pages in Pinocchio - we are really enjoying this book and getting quite a lot of laughs over the discrepancies between the original and Disney.

Well - that's the day. Hopefully, I'll have my computer back "soon" and be able to visit you all. I did remember Jodi, Kelly's and Lisa's blog URL. LOL