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Busy...
April seems to start the really really busy season for us. I volunteer with a community foundation, and we have our major fundraising event of the year this weekend. It is an American Girl Fashion Show and involves about 600 girls, 6 shows, 2000 attendees, and A LOT of work! I was busy with the rehearsals and prep last weekend, and I will be practically living there from Friday through Sunday. Also, Violet's dance recital is in early May , horse show season is about to start, and the kids' choir spring musical is coming up fast. Our Co-Op goes through May, and I have lots of planning to get done and turn in for next year. On top of the usual routine and Mr. Incredible's job search, it is getting crazy here fast!
This morning, I am getting a little time with a quiet house, because Mr. Incredible took the little Incredibles to the zoo! I need to get menu planning, grocery list, budget, and bills done and also go grocery shopping and clean the house. Anyone want to make a bet on how much I will get done in the short time they are gone? (I may be Mrs. Incredible, but I am not THAT good!)
Let's just hope it all gets done at some point, so I can go on the the other 9,999 things that I need to do before Friday!
Have a blessed day!
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Take 10 to see what's been up with us!
Since it has been a little while, I thought I would just list ten random things that have been going on with the Incredibles lately:
1. spring breaking with friends... playdates and fun!
2. we had an awesome Easter at church and with family!
3. the kids all learned how to fly today, doing "airplanes" on mommy's feet!
4. we've been developing our superpowers and making up new ones, like being supercleaners of our house!
5. it's back to the horse for Violet and mom tomorrow!
6. Violet wrote a fabulous story called "The Case of the Missing Horse"
7. Jack Jack can get out of his crib on his own, and takes every opportunity to prove that he can... which is challenging Elastigirl's "flexibility".
8. Dash can write his name! And a lot of other lettters!
9. we have three new webkinz that live at our house in the last couple weeks, one was my birthday present and Violet got two new ones!
10. Our Aunt & Uncle (blog names Edna and Mr. Edna by request!) gave us the coolest Incredibles area rug!
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Saturday Scrap & Share....
Friday Show and Tell... Leap Year and my new nephew!
May the Force be with you this Wordless Wednesday!
Saturday Scrap & Share....
My secret identity as a crafty kind of gal....
It's cold here and very February-ish....
Happy New Year!
We had a great Christmas, New Years, and birthday celebrating holidays! That's right, Dash is 5 and Violet is 9!!!! We were blessed to have our entire extended family on both sides in town for some of the holidays, and it was so nice to see them all!
It is nice to be getting back to a somewhat normal routine in our house! We do not have CoOp this month, which is actually quite a nice break for me. We have been cranking through a lot of curriculum stuff we didn't get done in the fall, and having that extra day has really been great! I am sure the kids will be glad to get back to Co-op, though, at the end of the month. I have to decide if we are going to do it again next year. This year was our first year, and I taught a junior high history class that was really prep intensive. I have not liked losing a whole day every week, nor the prep time it has taken me for my class! But the kids absolutely love the Co-op, and it wouldn' t be nearly as much work for me next year. So, what to do??? I just don't know!
If you have any guidance for me, please let me know! Thanks!
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First Ever Saturday Scrap 'n Share!
Show and Tell Time!
OK, today is going to be a "tell" rather than a "show" because the only thing I have to show was already put up on wordless Wednesday!
This week in Adventures in My Father's World, we learned about George Washington. We have thoroughly enjoyed reading about him... what an amazing man. After a week of Ben Franklin and now George Washington, I am totally impressed with how disciplined these men were! reading about them has challenged me totally!
We learned "borrowing" in math this week, and Violet amazes me with how quickly she catches on!
Language Arts is going through an Extreme Makeover at our house, and I am not sure what it is going to look like exactly from here on out, so this week we just focused on cursive handwriting, spelling and some copywork of quotes from George Washington and Ben Franklin.
We were supposed to cover seasons this week for science, but things got busy and I kind of dropped the ball on it. I think Violet has a good grasp on the concept already, though, so I am trying not to feel guilty.
This weekend, Violet is getting baptized!!!! She is SO excited, and Mr. Incredible and I are, too! She is especially looking forward to sharing it with all her grandparents and friends who will be coming!
So that's all I have to tell for today!
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Wordless Wednesday
Show and Tell... Why I am exhausted today.....
My name is Elastigirl, and I'm addicted to Webkinz...
OK, so we have not had the most productive week in the world. We have had a pretty good week school-wise, but the house is a disaster and my meal plan went downhill in a hurry.
Why?
It's Webkinz Fall Festival time! And after my friend Mary Poppins clued me in on the leaf hunt game, I got hopelessly addicted to sitting in front of my computer waiting for a colored leaf to blow by so I could click on it and get a prize. My kids are addicted, I am addicted, even little Jack-Jack sits next to me saying, "Find leaf, Mommy! FIND LEAF!"
Yes, I am a nerd. But I know this: I am not a lone nerd. I think I know more Moms and Dads that play webkinz than kids!!! If you are one of them, let me know your user name and I will add you as my friend. Who knows? You may even get a fall present from me... after obsessively clicking on all those leaves, I have quite a lot of autumn bounty to share!
Here are my Webkinz having a party today while they wait for a leaf to blow through the room.
OK, so now you know how nuts I am!
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It's prayer time!
Some Monday morning prayer requests for some Incredible People!
My brother, whose blog name will now be Dr. Dolittle because he is a vet, finally had his tonsils out this morning! I say "finally" because he had it scheduled several times before but kept having it cancelled because of infection (which was the reason he was having them out in the first place!). So, we are glad they are out now and that everything went well. Please pray that he will recover quickly and well, and pray for his wife too- they have two little superkids 2 and under, and he will not be able to help with them for a while, so Mrs. Dolittle might even need your prayers more than he does!
Another prayer request... well, first the background story:
The Incredibles have joined their first eve homeschool co-op this year. It meets at our church, but I came into it knowing no one. (Which is possible because our church has 8,000+ people) It is a very big co-op, too, over 100 families, so I was feeling a little lost at first. My first friend in co-op was Cathy. I saw her at the kickoff meeting, and then met her the next Sunday while we were in line waiting to get our kids from their Discoveryland classes after church. She was so nice and friendly, and really made me feel better about starting Co-op. Every time I have seen her, she has always been so nice to me and always has a smile on her face.
Now for the prayer request. Cathy is having a lumpectomy this morning, and will probably need ot follow up with chemo and radiation for a while. I emailed her when I found out about it through the co-op email list, just to let her know I was praying for her and would be bringing some meals. She emailed back, saying she had known when we last talked but didn't know how to bring it up... how do you just bring, "Oh, and by the way I have breast cancer," into regular conversation? I can only imagine how she must be feeling right now, and I am certain she could use any and all prayers sent her way. Please pray for Cathy and for her family- she has a husband and three sweet kids. Please also pray for me, that I will know how to best be a friend to her while she is going through so much. Part of me feels like I don't want to be pushing my way in because I only just met her, but another part feels like if it was me, I would need and welcome all the friends I could get. Pray that today her lumpectomy goes really well and that the doctor gets every last cancer cell out of there.
On that note, you can pray for Heather today too. I am saying a special "thank you" to God today for her, because she has taught me so much and hopefully the Lord will use it to help me encourage and be a friend to Cathy. So, thank you, Heather, and God bless you!
Make no mistake about it, my blog name is just a movie reference, not a claim. There are many, many people in this world more TRULY Incredible than I. :)
Thank God for your blessings today!
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Like Buttah....
We made butter today! Tomorrow we are going to make bread to go with it. Our memory verse for the last couple weeks is John 6:35: "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty."
Also, we have been learning about the early American settlers, as I mentioned before. So, our hands-on activity is making bread and butter... yummy AND educational! :)
Violet shaking the cream
Dash took a turn, too!
But in the end, can you guess who shook it and made the butter?
Yeah,.... it was Jack-Jack ;)
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Incredible Adventures in My Father's World
This year, we are using Adventures in My Father's World for our core curriculum. Here is where I should disclose for you new readers that Mrs. Incredible is just a tad ADD, and has not up to this point found a packaged curriculum which suits her crazy eclectic nature.
Enter Adventures in My Father's World. Upon hearing rave reviews from a brilliant homeschooling friend of mine, I decided that we would try it for this year. So far, we are LOVING it! I just joined a blogroll of families using My Father's World curriculum, but I don't have the directions on how to post the link or the blogroll yet, so hopefully I can post that soon. I hope to post some of what we are doing up here soon so you can share in some of our "Adventures"!
We are currently in week 7, and so far we have learned about the discovery of America from the Vikings to Columbus to the Spanish Explorers to the Pilgrims to the French Settlers. OK, I will admit it right now that despite considering myself to be well educated, I somehow never pieced all of this together! I pretty much thought Columbus discovered America and then the Pilgrims came here, and other than the Indians, they were pretty much the only people here for a while. I never knew the history of Michigan, how Detroit and the Cadillac got their names, or about early settlers from Holland or the history of Florida.
Who said homeschooling is just for the kids? ;)
So, it is working well for us for the most part so far, but I will reserve my final judgment until spring, when we will have done it longer.
Now, come on... admit it.... you didn't know all that history stuff either ;)
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Mrs. Incredible resolves...
Finding Nemo...
I know this blog is *supposed* to be about the Incredibles, but I am just bursting with joy over this story, and I HAVE to let it out somewhere! So, since it *IS* my blog, here goes:
"Finding Nemo"
Once upon a time, there was a the sweetest, cutest little fishie named Nemo. Nemo had a problem: he needed a family. Nemo lived in a school of fish where there were some very nice grownups who took care of him, but sometimes late at night, Nemo would lie in his little bed and wish that he could have a mommy and a daddy all his own. Beyond that, though, Nemo had a secret wish... that when he got his family, it woul dbe a family that had a sister just for him. Nemo had always wanted a big sister to love him and take care of him, who would play with him and smile at him and make him giggle.
One day, the grownup fishies who took care of Nemo gave him a picture of a family. They said, "Nemo, this is a picture of the family who is coming to get you. They are going to be your very own family, but you will have to wait a while to see them." Nemo looked at the picture. There was a beautiful mommy with lovely, long hair , big brown kind eyes full of love, and a kind smile. There was a daddy who looked like he would take very good care of Nemo no matter what. Nemo liked the tiny hint of mischief in his eyes, thinking that he would be a lot of fun to play with! And..... best of all, there was... a LITTLE GIRL! A SISTER! She looked just like Nemo had dreamed her. She had big, beautiful eyes and a great big smile. She looked ready to play! Nemo loved them right away. He wouldn't wait to see them, for them to be his.... but how long would he have to wait?
Oh, for two year old Nemo, it seemed like forever! Then one day, Nemo turned three. And then another year, and it was close to Nemo's fourth birthday. Still he dreamed about them and wondered, would they ever come?
Meanwhile, across the world, the family in the picture was longing for Nemo! They had many pictures of him, even a couple video clips of him playing. They had been waiting to be able to get him so long. every day, his mommy and daddy and his big sister prayed for Nemo, that he would be safe and healthy, and that they would be able to go to get him soon. But, sometimes deep down, they wondered if the day would ever come when they would be allowed to travel to find Nemo and bring him home.
Just a couple weeks before Nemo's fourth birthday, the news came to Mommy and Daddy: They would be able to go get Nemo soon! They flew into action, and travel was set up for just after Nemo's birthday! All of their friends and family got so excited, that they decided to have a great big "birthday party" for Nemo to shower his family with gifts for Nemo so that he would have everything he needed when he got home!
The day to travel finally came, and Nemo's family traveled across the world. When they got to Nemo's town, the grownup fishies met them... and they were surprised to see a sweet, shy, cute little fishie with a very familiar face there too... it was NEMO! They had found him!
Nemo loved them right away. His mommy and daddy were everything he had hoped for, and his sister was even more so! She was so loving and kind, fun and giggly, and took such good care of him that Nemo's heart was fairly bursting with joy.... and the feeling was mutual on her part!
The next few days passed quickly as they took time to get to know each other and play together. then they got to go finish the paperwork, and Nemo was officially part of their family! They had a very rocky time getting home, because Mommy, Daddy and Big Sister got sick on the way and Nemo was very nervous, but they made it home.
Tonight, Nemo is going to bed (what else... his Nemo bed in his Nemo room!) in his new home with his new family. He has a forever family, and they have a forever boy. And their friends the Incredibles could not be happier for them (or more impatient to meet Nemo!) :)
And they all lived happily ever after.
Congratulations to Chocolateer (whose name on my blog will forevermore be Mary Poppins, because I think she is "practically perfect in every way" ), the Jedi, and Sweetling on Finding their little Nemo!
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Welcome!
I have been meaning to send the link and an invitation to my blog to our family and friends for a while, but haven't done it... so, I am doing it today!
If you are here for the first time, welcome! I hope you will visit often and see what we are up to! Two rules: 1. You can't judge my grammar or spelling, because I am writing these posts while chasing children, and anyway, I have lost A LOT of brain cells having these three blessings, so I can't be expected to know anything anymore. and 2. Please leave a comment if you come by, so I will know you have been here- I love comments! :) You don't have to have a blog to comment, just sign your name ao I will know who it is!
I am sure those of you who know us can figure out the "blog names"... and who knows, you may even be featured here at some point! (If you would rather not or want a code name or something, let me know, as i am all about pleasing the "readership", LOL!)
I am off to round up boys and go pick up Violet from the school where she is reading to a first-grade class today. Say a prayer for me, as I am CERTAIN to be hounded throughout the trip by a certain someone named Dash to stop at WalMart for a new bow and arrow set.... don't ask, those are details left for a future post.
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