Happily married for 12 years. Rog is a fulltime FireFighter, as well as the training officer for the volunteer department in our community. Firefighting is not just a job, it is a way of life - for the firefighter, as well as the family of one. It is an adjustment, an attitude you have to have. You have to be ready to let him go at a moments notice, without knowing when to expect him back home. You have to let go of your 'what-if' fears and stand proud of who he is.
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Greater love hath no man than this, a man that lay his life down for his friends. John 15:13
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as a homeschool mom...
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Being a homeschooling mom to 9 year old girl/boy twins is not much easier than being the wife of a Firefighter, but God placed me here for some reason, so I might as well enjoy the ride! ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Nothing big on our plates for today. We had our normal school work and chores. Once they finished with their school work, I sent them out to play. Samantha's recent love is riding her bike! She spends hours outside riding around and around the backyard. Riley will pull out his bike and ride and ramp! He has asked me to check out BMX for him... I guess I should....
Tonight was Girl Scouts and neither my co-leader or I had anything planned, so....we played games and sang GS songs! We have 2 new girls in our troop, so it was a good thing for the troop to hang out and have fun - get to know each other.
One of my GS parents GRACIOUSLY loaned me their old phone! It is like the one I dunked, so I know how to work it - just got to clean all of her apts and contacts off here and start adding mine...
Rog is waiting on me to watch Survivor! So I am off here to crawl in bed and work on this new phone and watch Survivor!
WOW...I know I said it already, but yesterday was a really long day. I am still dragging from it...
Rog went to help out at my sister's office, and the kiddos and I managed to do school for the day. But that was it...no chores got done around here. Of course, that may have been different had we picked up some groceries when we were out on Wednesday. But, since we didn't, I had to get out again today to pick some things up. Wouldn't ya know it, we waited until it started raining...
Somewhere in the middle of today, I made a call to the local school and left a message for the principal to give me a call back....we shall see how long that takes!
Rog was home when we got home, and he took over and made dinner...I think I just vegged... Dinner was YUMMY! One of my favorites (because it is super-simple as well as yummy). We had chicken-alfredo bow-ties with garlic cheese biscuits!
Samantha and I headed out to scouts...the girls worked on their things for their carnival booth that is coming soon! We are having a pirates treasure chest game and they painted the treasure chests and made signs for our booth. Will post pictures after the event! Something 'super cool' about scouts tonight~ the solider that we had sent a goodie box over seas for ~ HE CAME TO VISIT!! The girls were super excited! I was too...pretty neat, considering we do not personally know anyone that is overseas!
Rog and Ry waited on us to get home to watch Survivor, so I am outta here to join them!
Today's schedule was slightly altered by the fact that we were able to get the appointment with the ENT at Children's. Her appointment was at 12:30 so we left out of here around 10:30am, because I had a couple of other errands to do. Once we had been by the Girl Scout office, and two schools for some scout business we headed to the hospital.
After roaming thru the halls and ending up in what seemed like the next county, we got checked in. Our first apt was with a speech pathologist. There were actually two of them and they seemed to see everything totally opposite as the SLP from the doctor who referred us. They said probably no VPI, but a lot of articulation issues. They didn't do the Arizona or the Frisoe (I think that is it); but they did a couple of other things that showed the VPI issues (or lack of them). The SLP that worked with us were super great and suggested that we start with the school district and get her tested and in services thru them.
The Dr., who was a VPI specialist, agreed with the SLP on all accounts - that she didn't think it was VPI and that we should pursue the school district in getting her tested and placed for speech therapy. She was very much on our side as far as what the school system should do for us and said that they would back us 100% in whatever becomes of us going up against the school district.
We were there at the hospital for 4 hours and when we got our, we were all starving. We grabbed a frosty on the way home and got ready for church.
Our pastor has started a new series with our adult Bible Study class based on the Purpose Driven Life Book and I have been loving it! It was a refreshing finish to such a long and draining day.
Woke up to rain this morning, was thinking really hard about staying in bed and skippin out on church, then my sister called and asked if we were going and asked us to come get her! She doesn't attend with us, and so I was glad she was wanting to go! We got up and moving (slowly- it was dark and dreary outside) and headed to church. Service was good- he reminded us that it was Grandparents Day! Oops!
After church, we headed to the store for cards from the kiddos! Chelle treated us to lunch at Mi Burrito ~ kinda yummy!
Chelle took the kiddos took her house and I was able to take me a little nap :)
Dinner and games were at mom and dad's ~ it was the four of us and a friend ~ played a game called Nutsy ~ had a blast!!
