This is the day we clean the house!

All this week, up until now I've been too busy to do much cleaning around this house. (got some done at the old house yesterday) So that is my day today. It's starting to look TOO "lived-in" around here.

Dishes are in the dishwasher already waiting to run. The bathrooms are in need of a good scrub. The floors need swept and vacuum. And goodness, I need to take that trash out! Besides that, just a major tidying-up should do it.

It really doesn't sound like much when I type it out like that. But I'm sure I'll work up a nice sweat on this cool September day. And once I get things nice and neat, I will take those long promised pictures.

But before all that, I need to catch up online and get our school done for the day. Thankfully, right now school is only taking about two hours. Most things we're going over is just review from Kindergarten, so he's breezing through it pretty fast.

Anyway, I best be going. Take care!

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Good Morning All!

I got a busy day today. I'm getting ready to do our school, which will be over before noon. Then we are meeting Grandma (Pat's mom) at Chic-fil-A for lunch. The kids are all excited because they have an indoor play area. Then after that, grandma is taking them for the whole afternoon! She'll be dropping them off at church at 6:00.
Of course, I'm not going to have much playtime. This is my turn to work on getting the old house ready to sell. Pat is the one that's always over there working on it. But now that I am going to be kid-free, it's my turn. I wasn't the best housekeeper when we lived there so there's still alot of cleaning to do. I hated that house. I wasn't sad at all moving. Thankfully, because I love this house so much, I've been doing pretty good at keeping it clean. I can't wait until I have the time and money to decorate!
On another note, I have exactly 4 weeks until I go down to Alabama for my baby brother's wedding! It will also be my first time ever to go to a beach. I've never seen the ocean before in real life. I can't wait!
I just can' believe my punk of a baby brother is actually getting married. And also now has a 6 week old baby girl too! Okay he's not so much of a punk as he is a hippy. I like to call him "The Beach-Dwelling Mountain Man". I really am so proud of him! Here's a pic of his happy family.

Kayla, David and Little Wren

Kayla is sick right now. The doctors weren't very clear about it. It has something to do with scar tissue from her c-section. That's all I know. So if you could keep her in your prayers that would be great.
Anyway, I better get to some schoolin'. Take care all!

Happy Tuesday!

Yesterday was a typical Monday. So today has to be better. Had to go to the laundry mat. FUN FUN....We can't fit our dryer into the laundry closet. It will fit in the closet itself (we've measured), but it just won't fit through the doorway. You can tell that the previous owners had to bust out part of the wall to get theirs in. They drywalled back up. So I guess that's what we're going to have to do.

The kids seem to think that a laundry mat is really a race track and proceeded to run circles around the tables. Telling them to stop only stopped them temporarily. Just until they think I'm not looking.

It's not the cleanest laundery mat either. But it's the closest. I washed the clothes at home in 3 loads. Then at the laundry mat it took 4 dryers and $4.50 to dry. Last week I had close to $10 in quarters gone to it. It's getting tiring and expensive.

Then I didn't get anything else done except school and dishes. Which I guess isn't bad, but I have alot left to do. Pics will have to wait until I've had time to clean. Then last night Anya got feverish. So....good day!

But today's going to be better, even though I have cleaning and groceries. Anya is feeling much better. She says her throat still hurts a bit but she's acting fine. So I need to get school done and then Hi-ho hi-ho it's off to Walmart we go! Then cleaning. THEN I will take some pics!!! And if I have time I will post them! So TTFN!

Hey!

Well the batteries are charging so I should be able to get some pics of the house up sometime tomorrow.
Wow! These past few months have just flown by! It's seems like it was just a few days ago that we came and looked at this house for the first time! And we loved it from the start. There's so much room in here! Actually, it's 800 square feet bigger than our old house. Both kids have their own room and so do we! (Anya used to be in our room) It's in a quiet country neighborhood. We have neighbors on both sides but none in front or back of us. It's so quiet. Except the sound of the occasional fire truck. The local fire department is only about a block away. But I've gotten used to it. We were smack dab in the middle of town in our old house. I heard tons of sirens. We have a really big yard. Which is awesome! There's even a small bricked-in fire pit in the back. Which I didn't even know was there until about a week after we moved in! I plan on using that alot this fall. I am so looking forward to this holiday season in our new home!
We've started homeschooling. After the first week I was ready to put him in public school though. And that's something I really didn't want to do. I was working with a modge podge of partially used hand-me-down curriculums...(or is it curriculi?) I was getting frustrated and he wasn't learning. Anyway, thankfully I decided to seek out the advice of an experienced homeschooler before doing anything rash. She told me I needed more structure. So I invested in a brand new curriculum. I got the first grade curriculum from Christian Liberty Press and I am LOVING it! It's layed out so nicely so I'm not getting confused and Noah seems to like it too and is doing really good! And it was under $200 for the whole kit!
We've also started our homeschool group at church. We're called the Kingdom Builders Homeschool Group. This is the first year they've done it. Before the school year started we only had about 17 kids in the group. Now I think we have 24. It just keeps growing. It's so awesome! We have prechool age to, I think 10th grade is our highest. We meet every Friday and do something fun and educational. Actually our first meeting was a community service one. The kids helped clean up around the outside of the church. Everyone down to the kindergartners helped out! Then we went to the park and had a picnic. It was alot of fun! Last week everyone got to paint a ME-shirt. They all painted t-shirts to represent who they were. It was so cute to watch the little ones and the big ones are really talented and creative! Next week we're going to a fish hatchery, which should be interesting. And in October, we're going on a day trip to the Tulsa Zoo. We're all very excited about that!
Oh yeah, And I think we're going to try for another baby.....more on that later. TTFN!!!

I'm back!!!

We now have internet at our new home now. I will be resuming regular blogging on Monday. And once I find my camera batteries and charge them up, I will get pics posted of the house! I am LOVING IT!!!

Hey!

Our closing was moved back so we didn't close until yesterday. But it's ours now!!! Of course because of a busy week we aren't going to be able to move until Saturday. And I think we have decided that we aren't taking our internet over there. At least not yet. So it may be a long while till I talk to you all again. So until then, May the Good Lord be with you!!!

One more thing....

Okay, I had to post this but then I'm gone!!!