Our Homeschool and Other Such Happenings - Catch-all post o' the week! Oh and winners!

Jul. 3, 2008

Catch-all post o' the week! Oh and winners!

Apparently, my draft post stunk because it was eaten up by the mysterious computer monster and I completely lost the whole thing. I am sure that I had written all kinds of fun and witty stuff in there too. boo hoo.

So from the mixed up files of my bad memory, I bring you the winners of the free tickets to Heart of the Matter's Virtual Homeschool Conference.
Congrats go to Letitia, DeeDeeUK, Amada, Christy and Cammie! (Can you believe I had to count that three times to make sure it was 5?! What can I say? I. need. more. coffee.)

I finally got around to posting my assignment for Hallie's super fun Through the Lens: Digital Photography 101 group. It's not too late if you want to join the fun! And you don't even have to have a fancy camera... my sister Coco has joined and she has a Kodak Easyshare that takes amazing pictures! Speaking of Coco, she is coming to visit me next week!!! Oh and she started a blog! Wanna go over there and say hi? :-)

It is almost midnight and I still have 2 munchkins that are wide awake. One little 3yo in particular is counting out loud right now...

one, two, fwee, foh, fiiive, sixteen, benineteen, fowteen, nineteen
I count fo you mommy!!!

Ummm... yeah... I think it's time to start some lessons with the little man. It's a sad day when you counted better last year than you do now! Whew, it's a good thing we don't have preschool testing or something around here. I'd be in big trouble! So what would they put him in? Remedial counting?

I wonder if he'd get extra credit for this talent:

The rest of the fam, we can't touch our nose with our tongue. Weirdo. I mean, unique child of many talents!

I also realized a while back that he knows ZERO songs like Itsy Bitsy Spider or Jesus Loves Me. And wanna know why? No, it's not because I'm completely neglectful of poor child number 3... It's really sad for me to admit this publicly... but whenever I try (or tried!) to sing a song to him, he'd reach up with his chubby little fingers and SQUEEZE MY LIPS SHUT. And then he'd whisper "No sing, mommy." So lest y'all have pity on this blonde boy, just remember, it's all his fault that he doesn't know any lullabies or even how to sing the ABC song! Hmmm... I wonder if he's ever said "No sing, daddy" ??? I'll have to ask David about that when he gets back from work tonight.

Speaking of work, I got to go to work with him yesterday!!! And why in the world would that be even remotely exciting? Well, the kids went to a friend's house while David I slaved away HERE for a 25 hour layover. I know, I know... it makes you want to cry a tear for me and for him, doesn't it? How does he endure such difficult work? It takes a special kind of person, let me tell you!!!

And lastly but not leastly, we got a new dog... She's a white German Shepherd puppy!

Currently, her name is Snowball. We're not too crazy about it though... it just doesn't roll of the tongue very well. Dash really wants to name her "Cloudy." And he really wants her middle name to be "With a Chance of Rain". It's time to send in her papers so we really need to decide. What do y'all think? I believe the choices are Snowball, Snowflake, Cloudy and Avalanche.

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Jul. 3, 2008 - Whoo Hoo!

Posted by deedeeuk

I must be out of it too! You may have had to count it three times, but I just had to read it three times to convince myself that I was reading my own name!!!!!! I'm soooo excited! I can't believe I won it! I never get to go to home school conferences since not many run in December when we come home! This will be my very first! And.....no costly plane tickets! (unless you are offering to fly me to your house to 'attend' the conference in your kitchen in our jimjams? :o) Had to try right?)