I did fall a little behind in posting and right now I want to go to sleep, but I want to make sure that I keep up on keeping records.  

Saturday...I did a cleaning day, but I really dragged my heels and it took me a large part of the day...I took a lot of breaks reading.   Twin2 had a birthday party to attend...I think he had fun...they went bowling and hung out at his house.   The other kids had a video game day.

Sunday...I did my Monday cleaning...I hustled on that day though and got done and read some of the Bible to the kids.   Then we raked the front yard and loaded up the leaves in paper bags and put them out the road for the recycle truck.   The kids worked extremely hard...It took about three hours to clean up the front yard and one side yard and a large portion of leaves in the backyard.   I remember it would have taken me six hours to do that job by myself.   I told them I would give them spending money for their effort.   After that we raked we did some of our virtues study.

Monday...We arrived at the orthodontics at 8:30am....Cindy is going to get fitted for braces this Friday and Twin1 is going to get two baby teeth removed so his adult will have room to grow in straight and not push against the roots of his permanent teeth.  Twin2 teeth were crowded also, but not as bad as his twin..so no teeth removal....Bad news...maybe...right now we have full coverage on ortho, but only until the end of the year...then my husband employment is switching insurance and noone knows what that coverage will include...lovely...at least I  $500 covered on Cindy molds and fitting...and more when she gets the braces on.   The total cost for braces on a kid for two years is about $5600...pray for full coverage!!!!!!!!!

After the appointment we headed south for an hour to a homeschool Morley's Candy factory tour.   We made it just in time!  The tour was okay.   We had to observe behind glass and it was very hard to see the equipment.  I don't think the kids got too much out of it and they did not allow pictures.   I was going to head straight home and finish the yard work and do schoolwork, but my friends were going to McDonalds and gave me sooooo much heck about not going...I stuck to my guns and said no (I got stuff to doooo) and I felt REALLY irritated that they did not respect my decision.   Than after I got in my van I realized how lucky I was to have friends that maybe would WANT to see me so, I drove to McDonalds and plooped my booty right down in that chair and visited!  I still managed to finish the schoolwork that I want to do with the kids.  We read some history and watched a video on the Colorado River.  I picked up Quizno's subs for dinner...I decided to milk the oven is broken to get out of some cooking days!

Tuesday...The electrician came and fixed a lot of wiring...Yay!! we have ceiling light in the kitchen.  He was there all day...He drilled downstairs and vibrated the upper level floor which caused the dog to freak out and piddle.   Rattlesnake followed him around sharing his six year old philosophies.   The electrician even helped out  when the timer beeped for the switching of the subject he would yell out your mother wants you to switch subjects...cracked me up!  Rattlesnake finished book 5 of Explode the Code...congrats to him...he got to pick out a prize from a prize bag.  He got blue moon sand.   About 4pm I went to sign Cindy for her new gymnastics class.   Her competitive class now meets Thurs and Fri 4-7.   She can not wait!  Then I dropped Cindy and Twin2 off at theatre and then dropped off a huge armload of books to the library.  I rushed home to settle our account with the electrician and then went back to the theatre.   Stay for an hour and helped make sure all the parents signed out their children before leaving and then ran the kids home because my husband had a conference call with Korea.   I felt kinda bad leaving him with four kids and running off to chorus practice.  I think it worked out though!   I am getting better at singing!