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UGGH  Im going throgh one of those maybe theyd be better in school phases.   I know beyond any shadow of a doubt that they are doing GREAT.  I know that they are happy and well rounded.  I know that they would be miserable in school....  but still sometimes I wonder.  Its totally unfounded and I have no idea why I would feel that way, well I do, its my own insecurities  its that voice inside of me that says wow when they are adults if they dont meet all the societal expectations I cant blame anyone else!!  LOL Sick and wrong I know  but hey what can I say. 

 I was thinking of going on a hike tomorrow  but its raining right now  so we shall see what tomorrow is like and if its dried up some.  If its too wet im not sure what we will do. 

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Check out my Menu  www.lostinmylife06.blogspot.com

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So ive pretty much decided to move this whole thing over to Blogger.  The web addy is www.lostinmylife06.blogspot.com.  I havent decided if im copy and pasting this whole blog over there or what I want to do.  Has anyone ever moved blogs?  How did you do it?  Did you just leave all the posts you had or did you take them with you?  I love all the features that the other site has and im going more and more towards a general blog of our life and well homeschoolblogger just seems like that a place for homeschoolers to post....  we are unschoolers... we simply live life.  I also am excited about looking for different templates and other features for the blog which will be better supported over there.  So thank you all for you any imput you have to make this a smooth transition!

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I'm a blog reading addict.  Honestly I may need a 12 step program.  I find ones I like and I read from the first post on and before I know it my evening is gone.  Im also having thoughts about moving my blog over to blogspot.  I havent decided yet  but have noticed that most of the blogs I read are hosted over there... not that im a follower but leaving comments gets hairy when your not on blogger.  I do have my personal all about me one there...  but Im considering mergeing the 2.  We shall see...  I really need to find out how to do the cool graphics and friends lists down the side and well thats another issue im having with this one it seems I cant add friends that are not on this network... or im just really challenged. 

Tomorrow is homeschool group so we are excited about that, its been about 3 weeks since we have attended and I miss my connections there.

My menu for the week is going GREAT! I feel so good knowing whats for dinner, we have tweaked it a bit, yesterday we were out later in the day than I expected so we did a whatever we could grab quick kinda thing, today thought I made tuna noodle casserole.. just threw it together and it was WAY yummy!

Anyhow thats our life.

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I live in a rural area...  Like really rural.  When I first moved here from Phoenix my aunt told my cousin to "watch out for tall corn"  I about died laughing, I had never heard something SOOO funny.  Now after being married to my husband for 10 yrs and living even more rural than my aunt ( who in reality just lives 20 minutes from me  youd just have to understand our neck of the woods, Im ONLY and hr and a half from downtown chicago) I understand it means you cant see going into unmarked intersections when the corn is up.  So im careful, but I tend not to be as careful at 4 way stops....  but today I had my Angel with me and he or she held me back just long enough that I wasnt all the way in the intersection when the semi hauling rocks blew his stop sign doing 50mph.  Thank you God!  Thank you angel. Thank you everyone who has taught me that you have to really really pay attention out here in the sticks!

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We had Monterey Chicken with mashed potatoes and corn tonight.  OH MY was it good!  If you want the recipe go here www.fullbellies.blogspot.com .  This blog site ROCKS!!!  Larry got part of the basement cleaned today woo hoo and I got laundry folded!  Double WOO HOOO!!!  Tomorrow the plan is for a lazy movie watching sunday! 

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I'm assuming alot here... Im assuming that people actaully read me enough to want to read more of me.  If anyone is intrested Ive started a new blog.  Its JUST about me.  My goal is for it to only pertain to me and not have any posts about my children or my husband (unless im venting haha)  The link for this new journey is www.lostinmomland06.blogspot.com .  I will still be posting here all the time and the other blog isnt a whole happy blog its a journey to find me.  So back to your regularly scheduled blog reading  Ive made my announcement!  Smiles

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So today was grocery day...  I have been reading blogs with all these awesome menus on them and thought HEY I can do that!  So I made a menu...  Made a grocery list and pretty much stuck too it, we did get a few things that were needed just forgotten on the list. I also surfed blogs for new recipes that I plan on trying out.  Im not savvy enough to know how to link peoples names to give credit so if you see your recipe or meal idea YOU have my thanks!!!!!   Without furthur adu here is my weeks menu

Friday : Fend for selves (we had a late lunch in town)

Saturday: Montery Chicken (thanks Sandra) Baked Potatoe and Mixed Veggies

Sunday: Corn Chowder

Monday: Tuna Noodle Casserole

Tuesday: Frozen Pizza Night

Wednesday: Meatloaf, Mashed Potatoes and Corn

Thursday: Pasta

My new goal is to post this weekly!!

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Bethany decided last night at about 5 to try and make a volcano, normally this would be AWESOME, but, we had to leave at 6 and she didnt say anything just made it.  Overall though her thought process was to be commended.  I just didnt really get to that mindframe until this morning, when the last of the volcano mess was cleaned off the table and the dog.  Here is her Recipe which does NOT make a volcano.

Milk

Water

Vegetable Oil

Every spice I own and theres alot examples..  cumin, garlic, white pepper, thyme you get the idea

A whole bottle of bay leaves

1 egg

Sprinkles

All 4 colors of food coloring.

I will say though whatever she "made" smelled really really really bad and was BLACK BLACK BLACK in color. For those wondering where was I,   yes I was bad mom and was frantically typing the agenda for my meeting, at 9 though Im in the lulled spot of sometimes she can be "alone"(as in the next room with out me) and do great and sometimes  she cant haha.

Feel free to share any volcano recipes that do work, as thats what are planning for the weekend is.

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I have been MIA!  I have been switching internet providers and let me tell you all what a chore thats been.  3 days of getting everything set up, emailing all those in my addy book to let them know of the email change. Getting messangers changed around....  My biggest loss is my favorites on aol...  I cant seem to access aol so I cant forward them to my new isp oh well im sure I will find them again.  We have had aol since we got a computer almost 4 yrs ago so this is a HUGE change. Anyhow thats the big news around here!

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My plan for today is to be brave and send the link to everyone in "real" life.  At first I started this blog thinking I was going to just journal what the kids are doing hahaha  it kinda has more spun off into my thoughts  so im going to share my thoughts with my world.......

Wow what a weekend... I cant even summarize it so we will just leave it at we went away, we came home and I hope to never have another weekend like it!  I did realize how much I love my husband and he even said he realized how happy he is  so all in all I guess it had a great outcome.

This week has been pretty low key, Bethy wasnt feeling well on mon.  Yesterday was halloween.... fun fun and today I feel like I have been hit by a bus.  We are going to get out the geo safari game here in a few so it wont be a wasted day.

Tomorrow we will just hang out at home and fri errands, bethy has a slumber party, if Larry doesnt work for the neighbor we have family pictures scheduled  if he does I give up im just having the kids photos done.  Sat we have our annual Girl Scout Family Hoe Down wooo hooo im expecting about 30 familys so an average of 120 people, we have a dj, pumpkin carving contest, apple bobbing, scavenger hunt  a cake walk and lots of fun!  The kids are excited!  Larry is even pretty darn excited too.

So far this week schooly we have accomplished some history, a whole lot of math, spelling and still working away on our reading skills.

Well i think this has been rambley enough hehe

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Ever have one of those days  where it should be a GREAT day.  Starts out a great day, is mostly a great day.  Then something happens and the whole day just seems off.  That was today for me.  It was so much fun at MRU today.  The kids loved being in their costumes, they loved "trick or treating",  I loved chatting with the moms  and felt that I connected with someone which is always great.  With all that said  on my way home I developed a headache  it was one of those want to stop the car and throw up headaches!  It was great to get home...... So the rest of the evening was consumed with me not feeling well. which we all know when your a mom that means NOTHING.  So here was my night.  Get home  take drugs, tylonel was my friend, feed kids, do laundry, gather laundry, read email, return umpteen calls (is that a word?) track down numbers for a planned event, take more drugs cause the tylonel has done nothing (now advil is my friend), do more laundry, feed dogs, clean up mess from dog eating rolaids,  clean up dog puke from yet another dog eating playdough, make more calls.  Which brings me to now and blogging and yes I even still have a mild headache. This was all the stuff THAT HAD TO BE DONE AND IT DIDNT MATTER THAT MY HEAD WAS GOING TO EXPLODE. 

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Today is the last day of our week at home.  It didnt all go as planned,  yesterday we ran in the evening. Today we ran into herscher to return my mil's car and my dd stayed to spend the afternoon with her. All in all though its been nice to connect back with ourselves as a family and as homeschoolers and not those crazy people who are never home haha. Today Jacob and I made playdough it was alot of fun and him and Bethy had entertainment for the whole evening.  I just love watching what they think up to do and all the creativity.  Jacob has discovered calculators and they are just so much fun for him... its really helped him to get how math works, I was pleasantly suprised when he got a notebook and pen and sat down with the calculator and would write out the numbers he punched in and then the answers. Tomorrow its back to running we have a halloween party at homeschool group and then another at church, thurs if all goes well we will be going to my sils to make apple butter and fri we live for a weekend away at friends in indianapolis!

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WOO HOO Im in  my very first Homeschooling Blog Carnival!  Check it out! http://homeschooling.about.com/b/a/216410.htm

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I have been watching alot of tv lately and spending too much time online  but in doing this I have come to a scary conclusion.  Schools are trying to squash all the individuality out of our kids.  Now maybe im just slow on the uptake and blind or maybe I do live under my small town midwestern life....  but here are just a few things that have come across the tv and net....

No more recess in some schools

No more tag in those schools that have recess

No more art

No more music

Many schools Public school have dress codes... not the dress codes of my youth  and im only 33 not even the dress codes of my oldest stepsons youth and hes just 20 but you can only wear blue, black, red and white shirts and the pants all must be blue or black.

No more mohawks.... for some that may be a good thing  but wait you can tell my child how to wear his hair?

So basically nothing to set your child apart from mine.  Nothing to encourage creativity, no outlet for energy.  Yet and heres what just slays me  these people that set up all these rules are THE SAME ONES asking why do kids just sit  around and watch tv and play video games, why cant kids entertain themselves, why are kids obese.  The generations youth is being raised to think how they are told to think dress how they are told to dress and be just like the next person.... wow and I live in what country?

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So I committed to spend 1 week at home.  1 whole week of not running, no apts, no playgroups nada  just home.   In theroy it sounds good but didnt quite work friday eve hubby wanted us to run errand with him so we did.  Wed will be 1 week for us  so we have had 4 days at home and 1 day in the middle with some running in it.  The kids were tired, I was tired.  The kids were cranky, I was cranky.  The kids felt disconnected from home, I felt disconnected from home. Our home was trashed, our animals feeling neglected.  So weve been home for 4 days.  WOW.  The first 2 I was useless I couldnt think, couldnt function, couldnt clean.  The kids played with their toys, they cleaned their rooms without me asking it took 2 full days of them playing and cleaning but they did it their way and it looks good.  Friday we played and then we went with hubby and ran errands we came home and watched tv.  Sat was amazing we ALL got up and cleaned together, the house looks like a home, it feels great.  Is it CLEAN no not so much  but its neat and not trashed.  I could do floors again, I could move stuff in the kitchen, cleaning under them and I could get cobwebs down  lol but im thrilled that dishes are done  my mound of laundry is folded, the bathroom is clean the kids rooms are fun for them to play in and not overwhelming to be in.  Then we had friends over for dinner  just ate and enjoyed each other.  Today it was equally awesome slept in and got up and just touched stuff up  picked up the living room floor. Taught the kids how to do laundry (lol they are thrilled,  just wait though im sure it will wear off) have been folding ALL DAY LONG it seems.  Tomorrow and tues who knows what we will do but we will be home.  After that we have homeschool group on wed and then friday we leave out of town for a long weekend.  I have to say this has made me open my eyes and realize running everyday is not needed.  With winter coming we just naturally stay home more, we need to focus on home.  Btw even the animals are happy!

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THE BEARS WON!!! WOO HOO.  Im not really a football fan  but... I grew up in Phoenix I have Phoenix friends.  I was kinda sorta maybe a bit ummm  SURE of myself this afternoon when chatting with one of the phoenix friends who was attending the game tonight that hed be watching HIS team the Cardinals LOSE. So you can imagine my fear when I turned the game on with 5 seconds left in the 3rd and the BEARS where LOSING  not just losing but getting killed the score was 23 to 3 I was stunned I had fear  this was someone that WOULD never let me forget it if the Cardinals won.  I chatted with his wife and begged her to take up my cause  she just LAUGHED. SO thats brings me back to the beginning of the post THE BEARS WON. 24-23 I dont understand football I can say though I understand BLOWING it and the Cards blew it BAD!! Im safe, Id like to say I learned my lesson about being overly confident but im sure I didnt! 

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I have lots of thoughts floating around in my brain.... so we shall see how they all come out!   Last week a mom on a yahoo mommy loop im on asked a question that went something like this,  My 4 yr old isnt doing things they way *I* thought he would be, as in coloring, writing, knowing numbers etc etc.  I commented *of course I did*  that I more than likely was the wrong person to answer this question as not only to I homeschool but gasp I use the Unschooling method.  Alot of the answers were he needs to be in prek, you need to go spend money on stuff to teach him, etc etc.  I then had one of these weekends where I was kinda bored.... so.... what did I do?  Yep thats what I did I expouded on Unschooling.  Now I understand that Unschooling is a radical thought process and I understand that not everyone agrees with the method, I also was niave.  Friends and family in reallife have been pretty darn supportive, my thought is they get to see my kids and see how they are thriving.  Not so on the NET.  I must also admit that even though I tried really really tried to JUST make my posts about unschooling and not personalize I did get a bit snippy  but how does one say I have friends that homeschool I even looked into it myself then say that I wasnt meeting my kids needs because they wont know how to public speak in college,  I have to say I just laughed out loud because my real thought was WHO CARES  honestly I took public speaking in high school and NEVER once used it in any of the college classes I took never ever not one. I was also asked if I gave my children the choice to be in Public School and how maybe they were afraid to tell me that they wanted to be there haha as we have zoos, museums, vacations, stores, to ourselfs when all the other kids are in school im pretty sure im safe from that  BUT  put that aside my kids know they at anytime can come to me about anything and Bethy has said before that she *might* want to go to school for high school  lol so she can cheer for the football team...all I said was OK just let me know we will talk about it whenever you want.  How many people though whos kids are in PS have ever asked them if they are happy there or if they would like to be homeschooled. I mean really asked and really know what homeschool is about (ya know I could NEVER do that I just dont think I could spend 6 or 7 hrs a day teaching my child, hahahaha).  Anyhow sadly the only thing that came out of this chat was the other mom left.  Hopefully she comes back, shes someone that I have cyber known for years, shes a great mom and a great person she just thinks im Neglecting my kids..... which leads to the end of the post on friday and sat I was  all about showing her what im doing is good and just and right and somehow overnight I decided honestly why we are learning, living, loving and free why spend the energy preaching to the choir.....  it almost set me up to look like I was trying to prove something.  So I ask of you all what is the line?  Whats the line between trying to share your joy and defending your life choices and why are they so darn close to each other?

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