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Sunday, August 6, 2006
This and that
I should be picking up things around the house, or mayber shuffling laundry around. However, I miss blogging and I have so many things I have wanted to share that I am going to enjoy Olivias nap and the big kids snacking on veggies by sitting here for a bit.
Owen has started to spell. He is essentially doing it on his own, asking me questions and finding words to copy on his own. I think I mentioned this in a previous post- the whole fat but thing. He is really an amazing combo of both Ben and I. He has my emotional side and Ben's type A compulsions. He is meticulous and neat in most every thing he does (though he doesn't mind a messy room). And like me he wears his softest emotions on his lleeve. WE watched The WIzzard of Oz for the first time last week and when it was over he has tears in his eyes and said, that was good but it was kinda sad too. I think he really felt for Dorthy when it seemed as though no one believed that her tale was true nad not a dream. He is so sweet. Amazing that he can be such a turd sometimes too. Evan has mastered the fine art of making him nuts and does so daily. I feel for him though, my sister did that as well, drove me nuts! LOL!
I am in the process of linking this blog to another site. This is something I have been debating for a long time now, but I think I think it is something I need to do. WHile I appreciate the TOS for this site, I am not being completley myself at times due to either my own censorship of sellf or it being done for me. I am certainly not a trash talking sailor, but sans children I do sport the occasional 4 letter word. I do respect and appreciate why those words are not allowed here, and one thing that has kept me here was the privacy that sort of comes with it. I don't suspect there are many freaks out there reading homeschool blogs hitting the random blog button and finding us, but mayber there is I don't know. Seeing as I have three other sites out there (a photo site, a baby site and an old family site) our family can be quite easily found on the web including links to this site. So my frustration with censorship has finally won the battle in my head and I am in the procees of making a new blog, once that will link to this one, but once I get all the links up on the new on, my new posts will appear there. I don't see the total move taking place for a while though, I started this blog back in November and have only linked my November archives. Anyhoo I thought I'd mention this now for some reason.
So a couple of weeks ago I was driving down our street, it was a Friday and a family was having a yard sale. I am a garage/yard sale junkie though I really don't go often, but I just have a hard time not driving by! So we turned in the direction of the sale and I stopped and looked. THere in the middle of the driveway was a large telescope. Ben has always wnated one so I inquired. They were pricing everything to sell and they wanted $50 for it. it is pristine and as it turns out the guy thought it was a hobby he's really like, but couldn't really figure it out. It is the 2004 model of this telescope. We have tried it out once, but we really need to set it up- it is all electroni, you put in your longituted an latitude and it auto aligns to know stars- theres a bout 60 to pick from I think. The kids are sooo excited about it. We looked at the moon with it on wednesday- sooooo cool amazing how clse it is through the lens.
Our garden is also coming along quite well. we picked a bunch of green beans yesterday and each had a couple wtih our pizzza dinner! Here's some more pictures of our garden. I still have things I want to plant, maybe that is what I should be doing now? I figure this is my year to learn and next summer when Olivia is older I will be able to get more done it the garden. As it is we are having fun with it. I cna't wait until our pupkis start to show! They have sprouted, but no veggies showing yet. We can see ears of corn though and both the tomato plant are getting big. I also got some mint from my MIL and she bout me a sweet basil plant that needs to be planted. We used our lettuce on hamburgers not to long ago too. Fun!
OMGosh and I can't believe I have not shared this bit of news..... Ben bought us a new (to us) 2004 suburban!!! I have never been so in love with a car! Our whole family fits, and we have room for more (don't be getting any baby ideas- no way!). The two dogs fit in the back, I can shop for food and we only have to take one vehicle. awsome awsome awsome! I feel so cool in it too. Shamful I know but I do. It is light silver with grey cloth interior. (leather gives Ben a headache when it is in such an enclosed space- when he gets his dream car - a BMW- he'll have to special order the no leather! LOL!) I haven't taken any pictures of it yet- but I'll do that today and post them later. I don't love the gas on it, but if I fill it when it is at 1/4 full, I put the same amount in as when my van was empty, so I'm gonna try and fool myself that way and fill it at 1/4 full.
Emma decided to make our guest room walls beautiful. I'm surprised we've gone over 6 years and 4 kids with this never happening. Even the Mr. Clean Magic Eraser can't get it off. Good thing we still have some paint left over.
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Tuesday, August 8, 2006 - Lots of comments...
Glad you found an inexpensive telescope! We love ours. We just brought it out this weekend after waaayyyy too long in the closet. Is your powerful enough to see the rings of Saturn? So beautiful. So amazing. So awe inspiring. My DH will tell you that you should go out to the Mojave with that telescope and go camping.
Sorry to hear that you'll be leaving here. I also have a blog elsewhere but it only has one entry, lol. When I first joined, I had a similar moral dilema about posting here but I just love the nothing-but-homeschoolers atmosphere. I also don't ever find time to check those other blogs that are just in my "favorites" and not "friends" here, so it's basically just too convenient to let the other stuff bother me. (I seriously think I would be banned if I ever posted the root of my moral dilema.)
Blah, blah, blah... look at me rambling AGAIN. ;)