Here I am, wasting time on the computer...not because I don't have anything to do...after all I have about 3 loads of laundry to wash and about 6 to fold (on top of the wash loads).  I also have a livingroom to tidy, wipe down and vacuum; a kitchen to tidy and should probably make a quick run to the commissary for staples.

But, I don't want to do any of those things...I want to do school.  I very much enjoy doing school with the kids.  I like seeing them learn and start to comprehend what is being taught.

About 10 minutes I asked the kids if they wanted to do school today, they both looked at me horrified and said, "NO!"  They promptly went upstairs and started playing.  8-PpPpPpPppp

Maybe I'll go and finish my chores and read a book....

Kris

Someone asked me what we used for the past school year.

Our school year is from June 1 - May 31.

This is what we used:

History: (both kids)

~Sonlight Core 2 www.sonlight.com

~Story of the World Book 2 www.peacehillpress.com 

~SOTW Activity Guide

~SOTW audio cd

~History coloring books

The Renaissance

Middle Ages

Ancient Ireland

Incas, Aztecs, & Mayas

Paper Soldiers

~Learning Through History magazine http://www.learningthroughhistory.com/

~Usborne books:

Time Traveler

Who Were the Vikings?

Vikings World

Norse Legends

History Search

Castle Times

Castles

King Arthur

The Story of Castles

Make this Model Medieval Castle

Knights

Medieval World

What Were Castles For?

Tales of Robin Hood

Medieval Messenger

Who Were the First Americans?

Kings and Queens

~Jim Weiss http://www.greathall.com/

King Arthur and his Knights

The Three Musketeers / Robin Hood

The Queen's Pirate: Elizabeth I and Sir Francis Drake

~Castle by D. MaCaulay

~Magic Tree House:  Knights; Knights and Castle Resource book

Earth Science: (both kids)

~Living Learning books level 2: Earth Science

~Magic School Bus:

Inside the Earth

Lost in the Solar System

Blows It's Top

At the Water Works

Inside a Hurricane

~Usborne books:

Ency World Geography

Earthquakes & Volcanoes

1st Ency of Space

1st Ency of Seas and Oceans

Science Ency

1st Book of Knowledge

Natural World

How Things Work

Science Activities Red

Science Activities Blue

1st Guide to the Universe

Living World Ency.

1st Ency of Science

Math:

~Singapore math

Ky: 2A & 2B

Lori: Earlybird Math 2B, 1A & 1B

Critical Thinking:

~Dr. DooRiddles A1 (both kids)

~Dr. DooRiddles A2 (both kids)

~Thinker Doodles: Clues & Choose A1 (both kids)

~Dr. Funster's Think-A-Minutes A1 (both kids)

Geography:

~Trail Guide to World Geography (Ky only)

~Galloping the Globe (both kids)

~Around the World in 80 Days (both kids)

Language Arts:

~A Poem a Day (both kids)

~Spelling Workout book A (Ky only)

~Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading (both kids)

Handwriting:

~Zaner Blaser:

Ky: Grade 2 manuscript book (two times)

Lori: Grade K & Grade 1

Grammar:

~First Language Lessons (both kids)  www.peacehillpress.com

Bible Study:

~Explorer's Bible Study (both kids)

There we are!!  This is what we have done....only a few things left to do between now and May 31.

All that is left at this point is:

First Language Lessons--we will finish at the end of June (we got a bit behind)

Zaner Blaser: Ky needs to finish the Grade 2 manuscript book, at the end of May and Lori need to finish Grade 1 book, also at the end of May

OPG--both kids have alot more to do for phonics...we'll be using this next school year

Spelling Workout A--Ky should finish this in about June

Singapore Math --Ky will finish 2B in March and Lori will 1/2 way through 1B at the end of May

Kris

The past 4 weeks have flown past.

Between Allen leaving, getting back into a "normal" just hte 3 of us routine, doing school, eating, cooking, shopping for food, things have just taken their tole.

I was put on a NASTY medication for my toe, which was infected and the infection has gone but it looks like something else has started.  The NP group I see thinks it might be gout based on what I've described, but they can't see me for several weeks.  UGH...hello, why do I have a PCM if my PCM can't SEE me!  They said if it gets too painful go to the ER.  Ohoo, doesn't that sound nice!

So, my days for several weeks have looked like this:

~Drag my b*tt out of bed at 7am, because the medication is disrupting my synthroid medication I am draggggggging all the time.

~Check the kids chores, get them breakfast, get myself breakfast so I can take the Nasty Pill, turn Disney channel on for the kids so I can soak my foot in peace.

~Go upstairs shower, get dressed, soak my foot while reading a book and trying not to throw one of the cats across the bathroom (It would be worse if I just kicked the cats out of the bathroom), push as much puss out of my toe as I can, soak my foot somemore, dry my foot, put lotion on my hands and other foot....

~Do a quick tidy of the kitchen and turn the tv off so we can start school by 9 am.  (We normally start between 8-8:30)

~9 am, start school...

~10 am, have snack and I do read alouds -- This past week I had a reprieve from reading aloud as we had an audio cd to listen to for history and I played that instead of reading from the RA books.

~10:30 am, do science or history depending on the day of the week

~11 am, Lori is excused and Ky does math

~12 noon, we are either finished for the day or break for lunch...I get another Nasty Pill....now starts the fun:  do I have to "potty" before we finish school or do I just get to belch during the rest of the lessons

~12:30pm, if we didn't finish before lunch we finish what's left...either with momentary "potty" breaks for me or with Kyler laughing hysterically between my belching (think of a Big Man Belch....either that or a Pregnancy Belch)

~1 pm, Ky is excused from school to do as he will...normally with Lori

~1:05 pm, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Thank heavens my kids are of a reasonable age and I can nap zzzzzzzzzzzz

~2:30 pm, I drag myself up again from my nap...usually by arguing between the masses.  90 minutes seems to be the longest they can go without arguing.

~3 pm, snack time (mainly because _I_ am snacking all the time because of this Nasty Pill

~4:30pm, Start dinner

~5 pm, eat dinner, take the Nasty Pill

~5:30 - 6:45 pm, we all clean the downstairs and tidy respective rooms and I fold laundry, then jammie time, while they get the last 30-45 minutes to play before bedtime, I get to soak my foot again, while shooing cats away and push out puss.

~6:45 pm, herd kids to bed, read books to both

~7 pm, slump down in front of the tv to either watch tv or a movie...no energy....can't go to sleep until after lights out and Nasty Pill.....BLECH

~8 pm, Lori is always asleep by 7:30 and Ky has his lights turned off at 8 pm to go to sleep

~9 pm, blech blech blech there is nothing on tv and I don't wanna watch a movie....blech blech

~10 pm, Okay, that's it....I'm going to bed.  Take the Nasty Pill and go to sleep.

Okay, with all that complaining thank heavens I am DONE with that nasty medication!!  It was NASTY!!!

I finished it Monday, it is now Friday and I'm starting to "recover".  I'm not dragging myself out of bed in the morning and am actually able to stay awake nicely until 10pm.  I'm hoping to be able to go back to bedtime at 10 pm and wake up at 6 am.  I have to have my 8 hours of sleep......grump, I occasionally wish I still had my hyperthyriod!!!  Losing 2-3 hours a night to sleeping sucks!

But, back to homeschooling.

Ky is almost done with Singapore 2B math.  He is just moving along!  We just finished multiples of 4.  He LOVES multiplication but thinks division is annoying, so getting to do 2's, 3's, and 4's were a blast.  He starts multiples of 5's & 10's next week, but that will be fast and easy as 5's and 10's are his favorites.  We should be finished with 2 weeks worth in 1 week.  He'd do more, but I put my foot down at doing more than 2-3 lessons a day.  I keep worrying that he is going to do it too fast and NOT remember it, but he keeps proving that wrong!

Lori is on Singapore 1A math and is also almost done with it.  She is working on mental math, adding ones place to ones place and tens place to tens place...all mentally.  It's fun to watch her do it.  Math is not her favorite, but she does really well with it.

We are almost done with our unit study on Castles.  Ky is LOVING it, but Lori is Bored Bored Bored!!  We have 2 books left, both of which will be finished next week.  One is on King Arthur and one is called The Sword In The Tree.  We started the unit study on fact.  What was life like, what did they do, where did they go, how did they get there....life in the middle ages castle times.  Then, we moved onto ledgend.  Stories we know are true, stories we would like to think are true and stories which were based in fact....but wonder how much is true.  So, of course we had to do something with Merlin and King Arthur and the Round Table.

Science is boring!  We ahve a general consensus.  We were using one curriculium and nobody liked it, so we went to a different one, and we don't like this one either.  Soooo, now we are onto a totally different one!!  (next post will have our "to do" next school year listing)

Phonics....Ohooo!!  I am sooo sooo sooo excited.  I love to see progress!  It is so much fun!

Ky just finished ETC (Explode The Code) book 2 and did wonderfully!!!  He started book 3 and is actually enjoying doing ETC again.  I have cut back on his progress in OPG (Ordinary Parents Guide to Teaching Reading) to only doing 2 lessons a week.  Three days a week he reads a easy reader to me.  Yesterday he read a 'new' (to him) one.  Mouse Moves House by Usborne.  Ohooo!!  There were a total of 3 words he didn't know and needed help with....but other wise did REALLY well. 

He's been struggling with the different long vowel combinations.  He has been doing better with remembering to focus on the silent 'e' at the end of a word making the vowel long, but some of the other combinations just stump him.  Even remembering the song, "When two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking..." only helps some of the time.

Lori is making HUGE progress with reading!!  She read 3/4 of Fat Cat on a Mat by Usborne to me yesterday and the ONLY words she needed help with are the ones she hadn't learned yet.  (We havn't done any long vowels or consonant changing sounds.)  But, not only did she read it...you could see her eyes darting ahead and pre-reading the next set of words to be read aloud.  We've stopped all progress in OPG for her.  I wanted her to start reading books to me and wow, I am so glad that hse has.  I think either next week or the week after I'll start back into OPG and having her learn new phonics concepts. 

Okay, that is about all I can think of off hand.  Today is our Friday off and my house is clean (so long as you aren't looking at the tornado the kids have in their bedrooms....) but I have a few more chores around here.

Kris

So, we started back full force at schooling today.

Boy oh boy were they ready for it!!

Lori had a wonderful day.  She did math, phonics, critical thinking, Bible stories, and history.

Ky's day wasn't so great.  It started off nice, but once we started phonics he wanted to mess around.  It came back to haunt him, since it took him 1 hour longer to read something than it should have he had to do 1 hour's worth of my chores with me after we schooled.  It really saddens me to see him go from reading really well for 5-6 sentences to taking 20 minutes to read a word because he doesn't want to do it.  I actually got mad at one point because the word he was ignoring was a word he read 3 times already in the past 10 minutes prior.  (Oh, and I KNOW he wasn't struggling with the word itself.)  Ky did math, phonics, handwriting, history, Bible stories, spelling, and attitude improvement....as well as Mommy Chores.

Math

Lori had a great time doing simple addition.  She is really enjoying the concept.  We start subtraction tommorow, should be interesting to see how she does and if she enjoys that as much as she enjoys the addition.  These numbers are only 1-10, but 7+3 is still alot of fun.

Ky started simple division today.  Wow!  After working on multiplcation tables of 2 and 3's, doing division of 2's today was a breeze!!  He loved it!

Phonics - OPG (Ordinary Parents Guide to Teaching Reading)

Lori just finished Lesson 36 and is progressing really well.  She struggles a bit with modivation and being the overwhelming amount of words/sentences which are on the page.  It's wonderful to see her realize that there isn't a problem if you take one step at a time, but to see 5 sentences with 4-5 words a piece in each all together just stuns her.  I just love the realization that a REAL word just came out of her mouth as she sounds words out.

Ky just finished Lesson 96 and was doing fantastic reading the words with very little sounding out....up until sentence 9 of 14.  Then he just decided he didn't want to work.  He did learn the difference between 'wind' (as in the wind blows) and 'wind' (as in to wind the toy) and really enjoyed having to figure out which word was which based on context in the two sentences.  I've been keeping him to the shorter easy reader phonics readers waiting for him to realize that he can read.  It is still such a struggle for him to read because of attitude that I want the reading of books to be easy at this point.  I figure when he comes around he'll catch up and advance quickly.

History - Using Story Of The World book 2 the Medieval Era

We finished a study on Vikings just before Thanksgiving and started a unit study on Knights and Castles.  Those of you who know Ky know that he is obsessed...and those of you who know me know that I am going to encourage that particular obsession, as he came by it naturally!

So we're reading stories mainly about medieval England, but plan on touching a bit on European medieval times as well.

Today's story (yes we inhaled the whole book) was Magic Tree House #2 and it's companion book.  It was an easy read aloud, but fun.  I have a few books on the inards of the castle and one book called Castle by David Macaulay (whom I met many many years ago) which shows how a castle is built and what happens in and around a castle in the middle ages.  So, while I read they looked.  It was very enjoyable.

Sooo, that was our day for the most part.  Ky didn't have much fun helping me, but didn't complain once.  I guess his attitude was quickly overcome.

Kris

Happy New Year!

Today is the last day of 2005.

A time of reflection of the past year and of decision of the new year to come.

This past year was hectic.  A move from Hawaii into my In-law's house in Vegas.  A move from Vegas to Washington.  Seperation from Allen (physical becuase of the move...) and then the whole MOVE aspect.  The move itself was horrible!  The packers did a horrible job and REALLY make me wish I could have just done it myself!

Being apart from my husband is very hard.  He's been home now for 2 weeks today and it already feels normal to have him around.  Sigh, he leaves in 15 days for almost 6 weeks.  Then we have a deployment upcoming sometime in the future after that.  8-(   So, we are enjoying Christmas, but won't be home for another 9-10 months or so.

I guess I'll be focusing mainly on homeschooling and my quilts and scrapbooking.

Kris

Well, I got a nice treat yesterday afternoon and evening.

I was able to go and see Memoirs of a Geisha at the theater alone!!  I don't know about anyone else, but I really enjoy going to a theater alone.  I get to take a book and read until the movie starts and then just sit back and enjoy.

The movie was great.  I really enjoyed it.  Last year some time I saw a feature on PBS (I think) about a woman who in the past year became a maiko (apprentice geisha) and wanted to become a geisha, so seeing Memoirs was very interesting.  Historically it was facinating.  I can't help but wonder how geisha came about in the first place.

All in all, the movie was fantastic, but I don't want to spoil it for any blog readers who have yet to see it.  But, I will state that the s*xual scenes are very bland and there is very little nudity.  Please also keep in mind, this movie is not about prostitution though it does not fit the Christian view point of morality.  I certianly won't be showing this movie to my children during their education.

On Wednesday Allen and I got a few Netflix.  Chocolat, Deadwood Season 1 disk 1, and Man on Fire.  UGH UGH UGH!!  One out of three!

Chocolat is wonderful!!  I so much love that movie.  Of course, as I teased my husband...who wouldn't enjoy watching Johnny Depp.  And, where as he will admit that "Johnny is cute... he isn't my type."  Snort! 

Deadwood is a HBO series and it is HORRIBLE!!!  Between the language and the characters!  BLech!!  Even my husband (who has alot more tollerance for foul language...being Navy and all) said we didn't need to continue that torture anymore.

As for Man on Fire....ugh!!  That was just SAD and scarey.

So, those are our movies for the week.  Tommorow I am going to watch Earthsea.

Kris

We started homeschooling again yesterday.  I figure I'll do 1/2 days for this week, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.  Then, come Monday we'll be back to full force.

Yesterday went okay.

Ky did spelling, phonics, read a book to me, and math.

Math is going really well.  We back tracked a bit and are going to review multiplication facts of 2's and 3's for this week before starting division of 2's and 3's next week.  He had a momentary hiccup before remembering what he learned prior to starting Christmas break, but is doing well.

Phonics and reading is still a struggle.  He does well while actually processing the reading, but is convinced that he can't read.  Don't quite know what to do about that other than to just chug on and wait until it clicks.

Spelling is going really well, we're sticking with very basic 1st grade work so he doesn't get frusterated while learning to read.  His problem word this week is duck.

Lori only did math and phonics yesterday and other than an attitude problem during phonics she did fine. 

Math is beginning addition and she loves it!  Numbers 1 - 10 in addition problems with pictures and with out.  She actually does better when there are no pictures to side tract her.  She starts subtraction next week.

Phonics is going really really well!!  She read the sentence:  The big pig can zip.

Today on the other hand was a very very short homeschool day.  Bonus to homeschooling, if Mommy is tired and crabby and doesn't want to do school....she can shorten the day!!!

Lori did phonics and did really well, once she got past the attitude of not wanting to do it.  She read: Get the quiz.  and It is as big as the hat Dad has.

I am wondering if Lori needs glasses though, she is having a hard time reading from the OPG phonics book.

Kris

Okay, I am officially the Scrouge of the family!  I made my husband help me de-Christmas the livingroom and house on.......December 26.

Yup.  I didn't even wait until our anniversary on the 27th. 

Our tiny little two bedroom townhouse apartment is just TOOO small for all that stuff!!  So, we are now completely post-Christmas.

All in all, Christmas was wonderful!  The kids got too much, but not nearly as bad as previous years. 

Lori was the most pleased with her dress up shoes, day wear skirts, and an assortment of crowns and play skirts. 

Ky was the most pleased with his Leapster L-Max and his Mp3 playing cd player.

Allen was most pleased with his Lego Star Wars PS2 game.

I am now the lucky owner of the Harry Potter adult British versions!!  I can't wait to read them, though it will be a few weeks before I can start.

Not much going on otherwise.  I need to start the decoupage ornament boxes for the kids and get to work on my quilts.

Kris

All I've been doing is sleeping!!  This stinks!

My husband finally gets home and I get about 4 good hours in the morning before I poop out!!  Today I took a nap for 2 1/2 hours, yesterday I took a nap for almost 3 hours.

Blech Blech.

So, we've been dealing with outside noises in the house.  I'm about to start making him stand outside on the back porch with no jacket on to make these noises....but I have to wait until the Christmas tree is up.  We can't get to the back porch door with all the stuff in the way.

So, what to do about girls and their legs.

My dd is insistant that she must wear dresses or skirts and leggings.  I purchased her jeans for the colder climate here in WA.  Well, she keeps trying the jeans, but hates them.  She does NOT want to wear them.  What she wants to wear are leggings with skirts or dresses...she would prefer skirts.  I hate to discourage her of being girly, but we don't own enough and I can't get to my sewing machine until after Christmas is put up.  Thankfully she isn't too objectional to waiting....and wearing a floresent green play skirt, everywhere.

Kris

Do you ever find yourself not thinking? 

Well, my husband suggested that we purchase flannel sheets...so, yesterday we did.  WOW, flannel sheets actually make a difference in keeping warm at night in bed.  That and having my furnace aka my husband home helps too.  Why didn't _I_ think of flannel sheets?!

What are we going to do today??  I have no clue, but it should be enjoyable and relaxing and include laundry.

There is MORE laundry still.  8-)

Snicker, right now Allen is watching The Wiggles with Lori.

Kris, who is off to eat breakfast

Have you ever noticed that laundry breeds???

Laundry, the bane of my existence.

Sooo, Allen comes home.  But, does the man do laundry BEFORE moving?  NO!!  He brought me 2 weeks of laundry to "help" him with.  Snort!  Do I look blond?  "Help" hmmmm, ya!

We planned on getting a real tree this year, but when it came down to the nitty gritty we ended up with our fake tree.  Snicker, not only did we end up with our fake tree....we ended up with 2/3 of a tree.  We didn't put the back branches on the tree so we could stick the tree into the corner.

"Nobody puts baby in the corner."

So, we finally get the lights (only 2 strands rather than 3) up, get the ornaments up, and get the presents we already have under the tree only to remember.....this is the cat's first Christmas.  AHHHH!!  Assani couldn't decide which was more entertaining:  eating the presents or attacking the ornaments on the tree.

Maybe it is a good thing we didn't get a real tree....he'd probably climb it!!

Ohooo, we had a date night tonight and it was fun!!  We watched Pirates of the Caribbean and had take out from Olive Garden.  YUMMY!!  It was so nice!

Kris

Have you ever noticed when you go driving that people around you act consistantly based on the area where you live?

We just moved to Washington.  Today I had to drive 80 minutes from our home to the airport.  I don't DO ferries.  Sooo, we left very very early so we could get my husband at 8 am.  People in Washington do the strangest thing when there is ice on the road.  They couple!!

Yup, they couple.  (Okay, no dirty thoughts there.)  I'm guessing that these people don't "know" each other, as they don't stay together.  Eventually, someone leaves their group and that car becomes apart of another group.  Making a three-some or a four-some.

Now, my only personal driving experence with ice and snow has been in Las Vegas (where they are flakes--the people not the snow kind), South Carolina (where they are just out of their MIND), Upstate New York (where they thought _I_ was out of my mind...and I think the people who live there "forever" are mad from frostbite!), Oregon (where the majority of people really have no clue how to drive when there is snow and ice), and now Washington (I'm reserving judgement).  So, bearing that in mind:

In New York if you follow someone or someone is following you for any length of time, people wig out.  "Eeeeek, someone is following me.  AHHHHH, they are 'stalking' me!  I'd better slow/speed up so they'll leave me alone."  Why are people so paranoid in Upstate New York??

Why do they "couple" in Washington? 

Why do I care??

Okay, I'll get away from my musing...

We picked Allen up and his flight was okay.  Lonnnnnngg, but okay.

The kids were soooo excited to have Daddy home that they wouldn't leave him alone the whole day.  Snicker, poor man almost couldn't go potty alone.  Welcome to my world!

Now, the cats on the other hand wanted nothing to do with him.  Assani finally remembered him, but Sabia thinks he's a 'big, mean, evil man person'.

I was finally able to get the last of my Christmas shopping done.  Ugh, there is nothing like trying to go Christmas shopping for the kids WITH the kids!  I should have just purchased online!  Next time I think I will.

Now if I just can't get over this nasty flu crud.  I had a fever for most of the morning, but it finally broke at lunch time.  BUT, the body aches SUCK!!

Kris

Ugh ugh ugh!!

We have the flu!

Ky is on the last few yuckies of it, but Lori started just this morning and I started just this afternoon.  BLECH.

Lori had a fever of 101, body aches, head ache and GAS like you would NOT believe.  UGH, she is the child of a sailor!

I currently have a fever of 102, which is WITH meds in my system.  I also have body aches and a head ache.

Soooo, I called my sister and told her step-dad that she needs to reconsider coming.  8-(  I was SOOOO excited to see her.  Well, I guess since she lives so close and it's a cheap train ride, I can send her train tickets and expect her to use 'em.  Maybe I'll keep her Christmas present hostage??

OHOOOOO, even though I am sick....my house is CLEAN CLEAN CLEAN (just don't look at the fact that I did NOT vacuum) all except for the livingroom, which is just tidy!  Why??

Because Allen gets here tomorrow morning!!  WOOOHOOOO!!!  The kids and I are very very excited!!

8 full days until Christmas and 9 wake ups!  I can't wait!

Just as good, 7 1/2 days and 8 wake ups until our family Christmas outing!  This year we are going to see the Pacific NW Ballet's Nutcracker!!!  http://www.nutcrackermarch.org/home.html  Here you can see this year's Nutcrackers!  The kids know that we are doing something, but have NO idea what. 

We (the kids and I) have been reading Maurice Sendak's verion of Nutcracker (he did the pictures AND did the PNWB's sets and costumes).  It's the whole story by ETS Hoffmann but translated by Ralph Manheim, which I just love.  I like the Grimm stories that Manheim translated.   They are daily begging me to read another chapter out of the book.  At the rate we are going (with me sticking to the 1 chapter a night) we should be done by Tuesday.  Which should give me just enough time to read it through again, though more than one chapter a night.  I don't think the kids will allow me to read anything else.

So, these stuffed animals keep appearing downstairs.  Hmmm, I toss 'em back up the stairs, and they come back down.  I finally figured out that our dear Assani cat is carting his "catch" around.  Sigh, between kids and cats I can't keep up!!

Kris

Well, here we are.  I've succumbed to the peer pressure...

I've started my own blog.  Pardon me while I gag!

Anyway, my personal reasoning for blogging is that I figure we can keep family up to date on homeschooling progress and pictures. 

We've just finished our 9th move in 8 years.  On one hand, it's fun...but on the other hand it gets REALLY old, fast.

We are officially on Christmas break and havn't decided how long it will last.  I figure Allen is here until January 15th, so that would be our longest.

Soooo, no school was done today!!

I was initially hoping to make it to AWANAS tonight, but Ky's had a fever all morning and the first 1/2 of the afternoon....so, I don't think exposing others is all that great idea.  Hopefully we can make Boy Scouts tommorow.

Allen is due on Saturday morning, YAY!!!  We're rather happy!!  The kids are counting the days down!!

Kris