"Am I walking so close to God that people want to walk in my shadow" - Homeschool Blogger

Changes

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:04:00 -0500

When a friend suffers from health problems it changes you
When a sibling or parent suffers from health problems it changes you
When a spouse suffers from health problems it changes you
When you suffer from health problems it changes you
When a child suffers from health problems it changes you
When its your child regardless of their age it
c-h-a-n-g-e-s you.

Today

Thu, 2 Jul 2009 08:31:00 -0500

I recently heard this on the radio "Q- if a woman has one of these it will add 7 hours to her work load each week. A- a husband" I go on record as saying that is NOT true with my Steve. Today we celebrate our 32nd wedding anniversary!

It's Over

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:02:00 -0500

Somehow I suffered through the last half of Hamlet. Never again say I.

On a different thought.
I believe that when God cursed the ground
that He said "Let there be bindweed"!

SHAKESPEARE

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:07:00 -0500

Recently I agreed to watch Romeo & Juliet
with my daughter.
It has been years and I had forgotten some of
the story. They are declaring love for one another when just an hour previous they didn't even know one anothers names. Then a few days later they are getting married.
I kept saying "just a few hours ago they didn't even know each others names". MaKayla kept telling me that I was ruining the story...
Fast forward to today.
Hamlet...now this one has proven to be very painful!
5 hours later with 3 breaks, 1 nap, 3 extra strength Excedrin and supper we are only to the intermission!!
I have to keep the words on the screen just to understand what they are saying.
I'm wondering how many hours it is going to take to avenge his father's murder?!
For you Shakespeare fans, I do NOT know how you do it.
I hope she doesn't want to experience any more of his writings. They are just to painful for me to suffer through!

Monday morning

Mon, 18 May 2009 09:12:00 -0500

The last 2 inches of rain came down and no water came up so the basement
is drying out.
Next phase is to patch the seams e-v-e-r-y-w-h-e-r-e!
The weekend was fun. Something we need to have more of.
I spent a lot of time puttering, pulling, planting flowers and my garden!
Saturday night we went to a PRCA rodeo. It was cold but fun.
I saw some firsts and I've been a rodeo fan forever.
The bulls won, not one cowboy could stay on.
A steer wrestler grab his steer and the two of them rolled together leaving the steer
unable to walk out! The vet had to come into the arena and they loaded him and
took him out. Later it was announced that the steer was okay.
They were letting high school kids enter the events.
A girl was roping the head and a guy the feet in the team roping.
She caught the head and that silly calf ran right into the front of her partners
horse knocking all 3 of them to the ground. It was a tangled mess and required
several people to get them free from one another. The calf ran off, and eventually the
boy and horse limped off. It made me sick to my stomach, it looked really serious.
They allowed a little boy who was probably 4 or 5 to help Miss Rodeo America head the steers back
where they needed to be. He sat his little pony and handled it as if he'd done so all of his
young life: they didn't need to tell him what to do.
Another cowboy was leaning off his horse to make a grab for his steer when he lost his balance
and ended up grabbing his horse around the neck and literally running along side of the
horse. That cowboy had the wildest look on his face when he was finally able to
stop running!
And Max Reynolds the famous cowboy with his trick riding and roping was there performing!
Steve started a new training method with the dog. That has been interesting and I think
it is going to work out well. We've never had a big dog in the house before and
the rules are much the same but Kassie has lots of energy!
This is MaKayla's last week of school. She is on major overload...stress. I'll be glad
when it's over so she can take a breath and relax. The tests are done she just needs
to finish her Biology unit and complete and give her presentation for the semester.
Oh, I almost forgot. She will be dissecting a snake today and I will have to be
the one to document it in pictures...creeping me out. I barely made it through
the rat. It's not the dissection that bothers me its the rat and snake!!
She is 1 credit short of graduating
and so she will finish that up this summer and graduate in August!!!!!!!!!!!
Public school even though it was a charter school did not work out for her.
It was good in a few ways and very bad in most things. I'm not very tolerant of other people
teaching my children if they don't carry through with what we agreed to.
We feel as if we were double crossed. It started out great but 6 weeks into
the school year the "big dogs" let 4 of the 5 high school teachers go. That
left one teacher for 38 kids more or less. The faculty was not to blame and they
did the best they could under the circumstances. The MAIN reason we sent
her there was to have one on one teachers for her upper math and science.
It ended up that she basically home schooled herself in their environment.
But they agreed to accept her last credit if I home schooled it for her this summer.
For that we are grateful because there is no way she was going back in the fall.
So taking a deep breath I'm going to get on with today.

Tuesday's water report

Tue, 12 May 2009 08:42:00 -0500

The water continues to seep into the basement from the floor
and around the walls. New places are appearing wet.
It's supposed to rain for two days.

sigh...

Part #

Sun, 10 May 2009 11:05:00 -0500

It is now Sunday a.m. and although the water has slowed it is still coming in.
We have 5 bookcases (that were fully loaded), a desk, and the entertainment
center balanced on bricks so the water can flow under and around.
At some points it has been 1/2" deep.
Fortunately it is only on the East and South walls.
The West wall is where a "million" boxes of stuff are stacked.
Yep, we are still having fun!

Part 2

Sat, 9 May 2009 15:21:00 -0500

Steve returned from Wal-Mart at midnight and we
mopped, sopped, and vac'd the basement until 1.
The water kept coming up through the floor.
We took sand and kitty litter and filled the crack
to overflowing and built a dam of sand on the North
side so the water would at least head the direction of
the pump.
This morning brought wet sand and water moving South.
Steve spent hours patching the crack to only have the flow
slow down but it also found new places to come up.
Kind of like putting out a forest fire with your garden hose.
At this point I guess we wait and see if it gets worse and
continue to vac out the standing water.
Man, do we ever know how to have fun on a weekend!!

Seller Lied!

Fri, 8 May 2009 23:20:00 -0500

YEP, HE LIED
Do you remember the seller telling us that in 50 years this house had never had water in it?
Then 30 minutes after we signed papers and got the keys we found the basement
wet everywhere.
Do you remember me telling you that when the rain pools up on the porch that it runs
down the wall on the East side...in our "dry basement"?
Well at 10:15 tonight Steve went downstairs to discover a measurable amount
of water on the floor.
We start mopping it up only to discover that it is coming up through the seam in the
concert floor!
We abandon the thought of using towels or even the mop and head for the shop vac.
Tonight of all nights the vac decides to die, so now it stinks, we have towels in the
crack trying to slow it down and Steve has made a dash 20 minutes to the next town
to buy a new shop vac. Praise God for 24 hour Wal-Marts!
MaKayla and I are wringing out the towels over the leak and replacing them.
I have no idea what we will do to stop this during the night.
We may be up and down all night wringing towels so it doesn't flood again.
Yep, he lied!

IS IT STRANGE that

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:21:00 -0500

I can sit at one end of the kitchen table and eat a bowl of rice
while
my daughter is at the other end of the table dissecting
a worm for Biology lab?
Although I'm not home schooling this year
my heart still beats that way...
I had to smile at how very
normal
it seemed to me