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Jul. 16, 2008 - The Conclusion of it all

I knew a joke awhile back where the punchline basically said,  If you play a country song backwards the wife comes home, you stop drinking, your car starts and the dog comes home.  

If you could play my last post backwards, that would be about the same idea.  Well, God has blessed even as he continues to stretch. Update:

We got our car back.  It's running!  We just don't know how fast we're going or how far since the odometer and spedometer are not working.  :-O  Good thing my dh has always been a speed limit guy.  He just goes slower than everyone else and figures he's ok.  Yes, we're in the market for good, dependable wheels that get great gas mileage - Dh's work is only 5 miles away sooo, I think it will be a green Diamondback mountain bike for awhile.

All appliances are working!!  Yes, the stove light keeps clicking off and on for no apparent reason, but food can be cooked.  And this time of year who wants to use a an oven?

I found my debit card!!  But not before I had concelled it and ordered a new one.  At least it wasn't "out there" floating around.  Oh, it was in 9yo son's drawer.  The one we call the 'trash man'.  We had to take him off trash duty because his drawer was so full of 'treasures' he 'found'.  He claims he was set-up, but we're still investigating.

My curriculum seems to all be on the way!!  There was a one week hold-up with Rainbow b/c of backorders but UPS should be bringing a whole truckload of boxes my way the end of this week-yippee.  I'm also selling very well on www.homeschoolclassifieds.com  all things that I didn't sell at the used curriculum sale here.

I have found a  fantastic Secretarial service for homemakers and home educators.  And it's FREE!  The catch is, everyone has their own, generally speaking.  They may or may not be local for you and experience differs greatly from office to office.      MOM  :)   She is a typing whiz, is great with Excel and her brain came hard-wired for organization.  She has been wonderfully desiging and re-doing forms and papers that I really need.  THANKS!!  (Hope it's still free after I embarrass you  :)  )

The kids are helping out by doing "Summer chores" each day.  They get tasks done that I would have trouble with right now and I make sure they don't kill themselves or each other in the process.  Yesterday for example was trash can and high chair scrubbing day.  Things were going pretty well until I went inside to a do a few things....  Just so you know, sidewalk chalk is not deadly, but it is pretty hard to swallow.  almost 2yo son ate a chunk of red chalk and my calm 14yos ran in shrieking - HE"S EATING CHALK!!  I was on the phone with "my secretary" and had to very quickly go in a panic - not a good idea when it's grandma too - assessed he was not dying, scooped and rinsed until little guy was not coughing then out he went to suck on all the sponges they were using to scrub out trash cans.  Isn't it amazing how resilient they are?

So, If I can keep the children well and uninjured for the next three weeks or so, we may start school slightly into August, the house may be relatively clean and organized, and at least DH will be getting great exercise.

Thank you Lord.

~Cindy

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