Creative Homeschool Exerience

    Michigan weather is odd LOL. I mean one day It could be a nice forty degrees outside (well a nice winter day anyway) and then the next day it can get to below thirty-two degrees. They say if you don’t like Michigan’s weather wait five minutes and it will change and it sure does. Yesterday was a pretty nice day out for a winter day but today it is pretty cold. Granted not as cold as it can get but still chilly for me. I so wish I could hibernate during the winter.

    Anyway on to other things LOL. Today wasn’t too exciting. We did school work and all and then had to go pick up our car because yesterday it decided to not start at all for hubby on his way home from work. Well it turned out to be the fuel pump again. I say again because just last year the fuel pump went out. It is pretty expensive too. There was a warranty on it but it expired in Nov. (Isn’t that always how it works out? LOL) but Praise God the guy that owns the garage we had it towed to was hubby’s cousins. Still had to pay a good chunk but nearly as much as we could have. The place hubby’s cousin got the pump from took $50 dollars off it and then hubby’s cousin took off $50 dollars of labor for us. So instead of paying $500 dollars we only had to pay $400 dollars. We will still struggle a bit for the next few weeks. Mainly because 1) In Jan is hubby’s bday (also my youngest sons but that’s another story LOL) and so we have to get new tags for the car 2) Rent (yes we rent not own a house )is due of course at the begging of the month. Of course along with that is grocery’s laundry (I have to go to the Laundromat to do laundry) and the like. But it’s a lot better than paying the full $500 dollars so Thank you Jesus for that!!

    Was supposed to go to the Laundromat today but with the car not being done till later in the afternoon so now I have to do it tomorrow. Also tomorrow I have a playdate I had set up for the boy’s with another mom. Her son isn’t homeschooled but I have met her through the MOMS Club that I am a part of and her son is the same age as my oldest (not that age really matter just worked out that way). So tomorrow looks like another busy day for me. Then Friday we are going with the MOMS Club again see the elderly Nuns and give them Christmas cards from the kids. I think that will be so good for the boy’s to see the joy they bring to others.

    Before getting married and having kids I worked as a nurses aid in a nursing home (wow that was when I was about 21 or 22 years old) for a year. I grew so attached to some of the residents there. You are not supposed to get attached but can you not? After a year though I had to quit because I was taking care of 30 residents by myself everyday for months when there was supposed to be two aids down each wing. I couldn’t handle it physically or emotionally any more. Because I liked being able to take care of them but when you don’t have the help you need you just can’t do everything. I didn’t want to become like a lot of aids there have where they were just doing it for a pay check. I would love to some day go back to doing that or going to school to be a nurse. Anyway my point to this is I remember they loved seeing the kids come in especially around Christmas time. I sure hope my kids will get to see this joy and see all the love they can bring to the world just by being who they are.

    I had told my oldest (six year old) what we are going to be doing on Friday and he asked. What are Nuns mom? I told him that they are women who love God so much that they devoted their whole lives to God and never had children or husband. He was so impressed with that. He said “wow mom they really do love God don’t they?” I just smiled and said yeah they do. The MOMS Club kids also got to make some Christmas Cards for the Nuns and my oldest really put his whole heart in it. In one he wrote. “ I hope that God will love you very much.” In another card he made he wrote, “hoo (yes that is how he spelled it lol) ever gets this may God bless you always.” Sure does melt my heart. He is such a loving soul. Now we aren’t Catholic but this isn’t about religion but about blessing these women who love God so much that they devoted their whole lives to him. I sure hope the boy’s do appreciate what they are doing for these wonderful women. Ok I think I am tired and have been rambling on enough LOL.