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Look what awaited me when I got out of the shower this afternoon!
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[Beau has a cold and is congested, hence the puffy red eye.]
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Month: March 2009
A what?
In the two years we have lived here I had only seen one fox, [which really is fine with me if you think about it].
But yesterday evening as I was washing dishes I saw at the edge of the property a fox hunting along the tall brush. I excitedly called out to the family, “Quick. Come quick and you can see a fox. Straight out the back. Go to the dining room.”
The kids and JB scurried to the windows. Champ is the first to speak. “I don’t see the fox but I see that lizard,” as he points directly to the fox.
People, if you see a lizard that large in your backyard, it is time to move.
And you must not be reading this blog from my part of the world.
I can see we need a unit study on reptiles. Soon.
A bunch of stuff
Finally took the time to load up the photos from my camera to the new computer and have a few I want to share.
First of all – the reason I took the time to figure it out today.
Skeezix’s new hair. Her hair is about 4-5 inches shorter and she looks SO grown up! Like 6!! That wasn’t my goal, mind you. I was just hoping to even it out a bit [she still had a lot of mixed lengths from her baby-hair] and keep it out of her salad dressing and tooth paste. She likes that it looks like Mommy’s and Angel’s.
Skeezix’s new hair. Her hair is about 4-5 inches shorter and she looks SO grown up! Like 6!! That wasn’t my goal, mind you. I was just hoping to even it out a bit [she still had a lot of mixed lengths from her baby-hair] and keep it out of her salad dressing and tooth paste. She likes that it looks like Mommy’s and Angel’s.
She managed to get pasta in it at dinner-time though. So much for part of our goal. 😉
I also took the time today to learn how to scan from my new printer/copier/scanner thingy we’ve had since November. 
I’m sad that you can’t really see what this is. Where you see the dark lines, it is the other side of the scrap paper showing through. Angel used the ColorWonder markers [that don’t show up on real paper] and it really only made greasy marks. But she worked so hard to make this drawing. She is TWO. Three in April. This “mean guy,” [remember she has older BROTHERS] has a sword. He also has menacing eyebrows, a nose, a mouth, a neck line and three buttons. She was wearing a shirt with three buttons today. I was moved. Where do my kids get their artistic talent?
Here is a photo from last week with Champ showing off an artistic creation of his own. On Thursday the kids found a stash of very large pieces of cardboard and drew fantastic pictures. Do you recognize Champ? He is being “One-Eyed-Louie: Terror of the Seven Seas,” [from VeggieTales’ The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything.] I put the mustache and beard on for him with face paint markers. He wanted a purple nose and green eye, too. But Mama has her limits. That is his “Whalie,” with him.
Finally – yes these are out of order. These last pictures are from the kids’ CBS performance last week of Shadrach, Meshach and Abendego. I wish I could post the video, but it is REALLY LONG.
Oh my. =/
As I prepared to read the next chapter of “The Adventures of Buster Bear,” by Thornton Burgess to Champ (6) I opened with the request suggested by our curriculum. “Describe what a pasture looks like.” I waited for Champ to answer; he remained silent. So I asked another question. “Do you know what a pasture is?” This time he was QUICK to answer. “That is the guy who, like, leads the church.”I guess Mama needs to work on her enunciation!
A Homeschool Hurrah
I was blue last Thursday and Friday.
They were REALLY BAD DAYS.
This was evidenced by the fact that at one point I sat on the floor, in the dark, in the pantry and cried my heart out. I was frustrated with God, frustrated with the kids, and frustrated with the mess, which led me back to being frustrated with God and His plan for my family. With a lot of prayer, both alone and with a fellow homeschool mom, and a God-assisted attitude adjustment I am mentally, spiritually and emotionally okay again.
At least for a while.
In honor of the cloud being lifted and my hope being restored I am chronicling some Homeschool Highlights.
*The TEACHER learns as much as the STUDENT in some cases. I now know why Wall Street is called Wall Street, what a pronomial adjective is, and why fish hear so well under water. And that is just this month.
*When your student has to go potty, the class stops. They don’t run the risk of having IMPORTANT MATERIAL shared when they are out of the room.
*Your student can do art class everyday if your family wants to, not every FOURTH day.
*When your student gets 7 out of 10 math problems WRONG you don’t need to go on to the next subject. You can do each one over again until the LIGHT BULB goes off!
*When the light bulb goes off, you can celebrate with a KISS and a HUG and not once worry about IMPROPER CONDUCT.
*We never have snow-days, but WE sure can have SUN-DAYS!
*You AND YOUR STUDENTS get to pick what books they read. And… it CAN be the BIBLE!
*We can vacation OFF SEASON and skip the crowds and get off season RATES. [If you don’t think this is big… um, it is!]
*My kids DON’T KNOW who Hannah Montana or SpongeBob are! This is very helpful in WAL•MART!
*We can drop everything to meet Nanny or Daddy for lunch at PIZZA HUT.
*When the teacher has a really bad day, she can hide in a closet and call the principal crying without worrying what it might do to her TENURE meetings.
HS mommies… please send me some of your own HURRAHS!
I'll do ANYTHING for patient care
Admit it!
You laughed right out loud, didn’t you!
And you wish you had my job, don’t you?
[Patient was admitted for rule-out tuberculosis. Until specimens come back negative we act as though they have TB. I can not wear the masks (I failed fit testing in 1998) so I have to wear this headgear and power pack to consistently provide me with germ free air. Feel free to pray for this pt. I hope it isn’t TB or cancer. :(]
I’ll do ANYTHING for patient care
Admit it!
You laughed right out loud, didn’t you!
And you wish you had my job, don’t you?
[Patient was admitted for rule-out tuberculosis. Until specimens come back negative we act as though they have TB. I can not wear the masks (I failed fit testing in 1998) so I have to wear this headgear and power pack to consistently provide me with germ free air. Feel free to pray for this pt. I hope it isn’t TB or cancer. :(]
New Computer
We purchased a new computer. It came with most of the bells and whistles. [Well, the ones non-techies like me are interested in! ;)]
What it did NOT come with is all my passwords, favorites and photos… snicker.
So – I am working [um, a little] at restoring my settings.
I am SUCH a creature of habit! I want everything *the same* and can only imagine how much it is going to slow me down to try to remember all my passwords, etc. We will reload the back-up from the external hard drive later after the kids go to bed, but for now, I am just playing with it and realized how much the other computer reflected **ME**.
I have to laugh. My first computer was a 386 or something that I worked ALL summer for and saved $1000 dollars to buy. It took up almost my whole desk at college, had a tiny green and black monitor and had two disk drives in the front. It didn’t include the DOT MATRIX printer with the feeder paper I had to save for separately. We picked up this baby for $519 delivered.
OH – and we have Windows Vista. Not lovin’ it. Too modern. 😉 I am scoping around for the setting where it lets me turn it back to look like XP.
I’ll have something better to blog about soon. In the meantime, if you don’t hear much from me it is because I am either working like crazy to get this computer updated, or I am avoiding it. 😉
What's out there?
Picked these up today. Low tech and blurry… pics of pics.
But you get the idea. They seriously rock!
BTW – they are used with permission!!!
Dayspring Disciples 