Tuesday
To do: Vacuum stairs going to second floor, hallway, clean under bombay chest
Check Ruthie's room - she spent so much time on her drawers today I don't think she dusted her room. Vacuum her room. Clean the upstairs bathroom. Don't think the kids cut their nails like they were supposed to do. Make sure it happens today.
Rachel:
xTake dogs out, feed/water; Take garbage out;
Dust living room Joshua: Vacuum stairs going up, hallway
Mom:
vacuum Ruthie's room, my room, toy area
x make lemon rice soup
x start breakfast: eggs, bacon, hashbrowns
x Jacob: Clean outside of dishwasher/black refrigerator
Ruthie:
Make sure her room is perfect, dust living room with Rachel
x clean under couch in den - clear everything out
x Breakfast: eggs and bacon
(dh joined us for breakfast, something that is generally unusual to happen)
x Dinner: grilled cheese, lemon rice soup (and the rest of the leftovers from Sunday)
x Start making the lemon rice soup by making the broth during the day.
call Linda at Tony's Saddle Shop
x Call Doling for appointment to have blinds installed
start Mike on sanding of Rachel's floor
hang pictures in my kitchen
Good school day. Read with Joshua 2 pages of Smiling Hill Farm. He read terrific. Ever since I told him to 'read fast', he concentrates more and there is this huge difference in his reading. It's not so slow and deliberate. I'm very encouraged! I had him read from the second book of I Can Read (Sonlight Curriculum), the first chapter. He interjected emotion in to this story and it was rather funny. We both got a good laugh. He took his spelling test, read Genesis chapter one, then said his verses for me that he is memorizing.
Ruthie read from her McGuffy book. She did really well. I have her read one story per day from this book. When Grandma comes every other week, she has her read from the I Can Read book. Grandma did some math with her today, too.
Rachel did Algebra in the morning, then went out shopping with her big sister for the Christmas party that is going be next week at the office. I did not do my afternoon classes with the kids because of this. We do history, art, and gym class in the afternoon. Sometimes I do Bible class in the afternoon, too. Today, we had Bible right after breakfast, and in the afternoon, when Rachel went shopping, I had the kids complete chores.
I went out to be with the horses and did more ground work with them in the round-pen. I've been watching Clinton Anderson dvd's on ground work in the evenings, so I like to get out the very next day and practice what I learned. Then, in the evening, I watch the same dvd again so I can critique what I did. I had worked the horses Monday morning and when I watched the dvd that evening, I could see I made several mistakes. I did not slap the stick and rope right, nor did I point in the direction I wanted the horses to go. When I went out on Tuesday, I did both things right and had a much better time of conveying to the horses what I wanted them to do.
I had fixed lemon rice soup this day by pulling from the freezer a chicken carcass I had frozen for making broths. I simmered it all day, adding carrots and celery. I didn't have any onion to add. After draining the broth, I added 2 eggs, 2 cans of cream of cerlery soup, and 2 cups of whole grain rice. I added the juice of 6 lemons. I forgot to add white wine, something I generally do when I make this recipe. I usually use cream of chicken soup, instead of cream of celery. When it was almost done, I remembered that my soup is usually better if I have Bible Bread Crackers that I get from the grocery store. Around 3:45 I ran to the store only to find they didn't have any. I got several other varieties. I only buy crackers that don't have partially hydrogenated oil or hydrogenated oil in them.
When I got home I made grilled cheese sandwiches with some cheddar cheese I had bought at the store. It was white, not golden like cheddar cheese usually is, because it doesn't have dye added to it. Cheese is always white unless you add dye. My kids didn't think they would like the sandwiches because the cheese didn't look like it usually did.
At supper time, Rachel and Becky came in from shopping and I invited Becky and my grandbabies to stay for dinner. The grilled cheese sandwiches were a hit. Everyone said they were the best they'd ever had and it was the cheese that was so delicious. The lemon rice soup was a disappointment because it didn't seem as if anyone liked it.
Exercise:
ground work in the roundpen with horses
videos: Denise Austin, Get Fit Fast, Abs, 1st segment
Tamillee, I Want Those Arms, 1st segment
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