Days Like These...

What is your age?

This is a diner-visiting age finder. 

So don't cheat by scrolling down first!

It takes less than a minute.  Work this out as you read ...
Be sure you don't read the bottom until you've worked it out!
This is not one of those waste of time things, it's fun.

1. First of all, pick the number of times a week that you would like to go out to eat. (more than once but less than 10)

2. Multiply this number by 2 (just to be bold)

3. Add 5

4. Multiply it by 50

5. If you have already had your birthday this year add 1757...
If you haven't, add 1756. 

6. Now subtract the four digit year that you were born.

You should have a three digit number.

The first digit of this was your original number. (I.e., How many times you want to go out to restaurants in a week.)

The next two numbers are

YOUR AGE ! ------ (Oh YES, it is!!!)

I'M TOLD THIS IS THE ONLY YEAR (2007) IT WILL EVER WORK, SO SPREAD IT AROUND WHILE IT LASTS!

Have a fun day,

Julia

These Kind of Days...

I just love these kind of days!  The kind of days where nothing goes as you plan...great. 

First, I planned to get up at 6am.  Instead, I woke up at 6:22a.  Great!

Next, my client wasn't ready to go at 6:45am like was planned.  Instead, she was ready to go at 7:35a.   A tad bit late...ohhh, God is teaching me some serious patience.

Then, we are on the freeway and trying to get to her camp drop-off point 45 minutes away and the camp bus leaves the drop-off point at 8:30a.  Oh did I mention by this time it was 7:50a and there is noooo (I mean seriously no way) we are going to make it. Instead, there is tons of traffic and a 45 minutes trip becomes a 60 - 75 minute trip.

So, we drive an extra 60 minutes to get her to camp.  Of course, that would get us there about 10a.  Unfortunately, when I called the campgrounds main office they wouldn't start accepting clients until 12p.  

Amazingly, this part was okay...especially since it wasn't planned you know it can't go wrong.  We shopped at a Ross Store and went to a local coffee shop Schnoogs.  Both were fun!  Now the lift on the wheelchair van did start to give me problems, but I firmly pressed the "reset" button and told it, "We are to far from home for problems now!"  And it worked.

Then its off to camp we go.  Side-note, GPS is an amazing thing at times.  So we pretty much get there without any further problems. 

Once we arrived there, we had to spend another hour explaining the medication list and all the other stuff that goes along with drop-off time.  Surprisingly, we had figured it wouldn't take another hour, but who are we to be planning anything anymore.

Finally, I planned to be done with working at 12p today.  Yet, I didn't actually get back to town until 2:30p. 

So tell me do you ever have planned unplanned days,

Julia

Ahh...Peace!

It's so quiet here...its 7:15a and the children are all asleep still.  After 3 nights in a row of "later than usual" nights it has finally caught up with them. 

Yesterday it was about 109 here.  Yeck!  Although after we went swimming yesterday evening it didn't seem that yuck anymore.  We left my friend's pool at 8:15pm and it was 102 at that point.  The 2 younger children were told they were going to bed as soon as we got home.  8pm is their bedtime, but once again summertime has hit us because they were still awake at 9pm when big bro was getting ready for bed.

I just love drinking my "cold" coffee and eating my sourdough toast to the hum of the swap cooler.  I'm just leaving it on for now as it is already "just right" in here. 

I have to go to Costco later because we are almost out of the regular bread.  And cheese!  Might as well pack it in if you run out of cheese.  We have company coming tomorrow - my husband's friend and his 2 sons!  So I have to a "menu" figured out...and we'll see if I even follow it!

Have a cool day,

Julia

My Wonderful Husband

Since Father's Day, I have wanted to write something about my wonderful husband.  But alas, I haven't yet.  Let me just sum up our life together as "fun".  (Not perfect, but fun!)  To the right of this blog I have a ticker countdown for our anniversary.  17 years...have just flown by. 

I remember when we were celebrating our 1st year, we both thought that surely it hadn't only been one year.  Yes, we dated for 3 years (off and on, mostly on) and engaged for 1 more year.  So we had been together for awhile.  But dating him never prepared me for what an awesome man of God he is. 

He's thankfully not just a great husband and friend.  He's not just a wonderful father and son-in-law.  He is truly a man of God.  No, he is not high-and-mighty and he doesn't throw out the "thee's" and "thou's".   He reads his devotions, prays, calls on God, and spends time sharing with me and our 4 children what God is doing. (Sniffle-sniffle!)  He respects me; loves me; challenges me; plays and teases me! 

When I start to question if I can work full-time and homeschool 3 children, while he works full-time and homeschools with me; he reminds me why we are doing this.  He prays with me, supports me, lifts me up and asks me what I need help with to get through.  We both work and both homeschool - it truly is an cool thing.  We love it when my parents tell someone who knew my dh in school that we have 4 children and we team-teach them together.  They are usually shocked.  He just says, "If someone had homeschooled me, I wouldn't have been so bored in school."  He is one of those students who got "Cs", but should've been getting "As".  (His philosophy was why do all that work, when you only need a C to pass.)

I thank God everyday for my dh.  He loves God, me, and our children.  He even tolerates my family well too!

Hope you and your's have a blessed day,

Julia

Homeschool Convention

I can not wait until the end of July for the Homeschool Convention!  I enjoy it so much.  This is the first year I get to take my soon-to-be 8th grade son.  Seminars, friends, books, Starbucks, lunch, encouragement, and fun with my son will be a great time. 

Hope to see you there!

Julia

PS...I cleaned one bathroom today...but very thoroughly!  Tomorrow...you better look out bathroom number 2.