Bits and pieces from this part of the rock. Sometimes thoughtful, sometimes not. All of it the truth! http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/truckerswife/ en-us Homeschool Blogger Tue, 19 Sep 2006 20:15:00 -0500 Tue, 19 Sep 2006 20:15:00 -0500 Hello All!  :)   I haven't around much due to a computer crash.  My hard drive decided to give it up.  It died last week.  Ugh!  the horror of not having a 'puter!  LOL  Being that my entire school is online, it was a BIG problem.  But, I was able to still do what I had to do, thanks to a borrowed computer from --gasp!--rent-a-center.  Yes, I was not pleased with having to pay $$ for the use of a computer.  However, when I went there, I learned that the first week was free.  Thank God!  As I was only needing the thing for a week.  I was biding my time until my husband could get home to fix my poor little computer.  He came home briefly Sunday morning and did his little magic trick of taking one hard drive out, putting another in, and whaalaa...I got a new computer.  (I was SOO happy!)    So now that I installed every possible program that I THINK I had on the other one, I am back on and running!  (You would be amazed at how dependent you are on some programs without even realizing it!  Try to open an ebook without Adobe reader!)  :-)   Even though I lost a LOT of pictures and my school work, I have been able to re-create or find people with copies of my pictures. I knew I saved photos to that yahoo album's page for a reason!  LOL  I did, however, lose the pictures of our vacation that we had in June.  We took alot of interstate pictures and odds and ends that most sane people wouldn't bother with.  But who said we were sane?    I hope I'm done installing and downloading, at least for a while, as I think I spent most of the last two days watching the computer instead of USING the thing.  BUT its okay and I am happy again!  So if you missed me, now you know where I went.  I've always been here, but not able to GET here.  LOL    Enjoy your day!  And don't underestimate the power of saving your things!  (I now send everything to my email addresses!)    ~~back to surfing the web~~ http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/truckerswife/205285/ Tue, 19 Sep 2006 20:15:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/truckerswife/205285/ I can't believe how fast these courses are zooming by.  As of Monday I will be considered a junior.  Wow!  It just blows my mind since I only started in January or Febuary.  (Can't remember!)  But sheesh, who knew?  :)   These next classes are Humanities and Environmental Science.  Oh boy!  LOL  So far, this science course gets to deal with...now sit down for this...evolution.  Yes, you read right.  Why would science even consider anything else?  Yeah, I agree.  So now my "challenge" is how to do my work without believing what I say.  My first week deals with evolution and its effects on the planet.  Ummm, I did not come from some cell that formed into a frog and then a monkey before turning human.  ;)   I know, I know, its no big deal really.  I just don't like to give answers that I know are what the teacher wants, but what I don't honestly believe to be true.  You know what I mean?  And I am not about to have some debate about it when all I want is to get through the next nine weeks.  :-)   The Humanities class deals with religion.  This gives me the opportunity to learn about another religion.  I am debating between Seventh Day Adventist and the Mormons.  I know little about the Mormons, but nothing about the Seventh Day Adventists.  If anyone has any insights, be it personal or from someone they know, I am open to any help.  :)  Feel free to email me.  Thanks!    I'm excited about starting these new classes.  I'm kinda nervous as the science class has three or four power point presentations that are due throughout the course.  But I'm sure it'll be fine once I do them.  :-) http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/truckerswife/195258/ Sat, 2 Sep 2006 20:06:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/truckerswife/195258/ We have had some of those moments that. as a parent of a teen, I just don't want to end.  :)   Since my return to the work force, Sean has been attached to me constantly.  Not a biggie, I expected that from the midget kid.  What WAS surprising was now when we watch television or read together, Celia joins in....closely.  She wants to sit next to me and do more things with me.  I'm not quite sure how to take this.  Is this a insecurity thing?  Or is it what she says it is, which is that she likes to do things with me?  Still, it makes me wonder.  ~shrug~   Now our reading time looks like this: Sean on my lap, Matt on my left, and Celia on my right.  All hanging on me in some form.  All making me happy that we are together.  Awww...I know.  lol     http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/truckerswife/194021/ Thu, 31 Aug 2006 23:00:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/truckerswife/194021/ Is it wrong to be happy that the public and private school age children are returning to the classroom this week?  Is it wrong to think how empty the stores will be since parents won't be bringing thier wonderful children shopping with them because the kids will be in said classroom? Is it wrong to think how peaceful it will be to go to the park or the river because no children or teens will be lurking about out of boredom? Is it wrong to enjoy the silence of the library again? Is it wrong to think how blessed I am that my kids are homeschooled and not sitting in a classroom for 8 hours a day? Is it wrong to be thankful that my kids are not having to do about an hours worth of homework upon arriving at home after sitting in school for the before-mentioned 8 hours?   I was just wondering...   http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/truckerswife/184013/ Tue, 15 Aug 2006 00:45:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/truckerswife/184013/ This past week was V.B.S.--that would be vacation Bible school for those who might not know. Matt was the only one of the kiddies to go. It only makes sense due to Cel being a highschooler--eek!--and Sean is too little to get anything out of it. But Matt had a blast. Or so he says. ;)I stayed with him the entire week to follow him and his class around. It was pretty good. Matt and his friend wanted to go so her mom and I went along for the ride.We had never gone to the church before but every one seemed to be nice. Then again, it wasn't like a typical church morning where people say hello and go on about their merry ole way. We were there for the entire week. Everyone did make a point to come and say hello but they also asked questions outside of the "where are you from" kind of things. Though they did ask the obligatory questions as well. :) That would be "do you have a home church?" "do you have any other children?" Yadayadayada. We all know the drill. But these people seemed to go beyond that. So we will see. It's worth pursuing one Sunday.Today was out of the question because my husband is home and we have been doing family stuff to make up for the four weeks he was out. Family comes first and I won't apologize for that.In VBS, Matt made clay pots, a tiny maracca, photo frame with buttons, snow globe made from a baby food jar, and a sand art plaque. There were a ton of songs--as is the case with VBS!--and the kids raised the money for their goal. They sponsored Ninos de Mexico, which is an orphanage for kids zero to adult. The VBS was aiming at buying a new computer for the school. And when the kids saw they made their goal, they were so excited!I had a great week, even if it was a busy one. It was worth it and Matt LOVED it. I'll see what the church has to offer on a regular basis. If their service is as good as the attitude of the people, then it would definitely be worth going. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/truckerswife/183153/ Sun, 13 Aug 2006 16:51:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/truckerswife/183153/ I've been recently informed that I will be an aunt for the twelvth time.  My husbands sister is having baby number four sometime in March.  Or did she say February?  ~shrug~ It'll be next year, regardless.  :-)   When I told my husband this number, he asked "are you sure?  That sounds like a lot of kids."  LOL  He is such a goof.  I told him to smile and be happy that it is not us having the baby.  He laughed and called me the goof for even thinking those words out loud.  ha!                     http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/truckerswife/179382/ Mon, 7 Aug 2006 00:49:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/truckerswife/179382/ Ugh! I have spent the entire afternoon cleaning and rearranging their bedroom. I am so tired! But its done. Hurray! The two boys are nine and four years old. Matt is the kind of kid that has to see everything. And I mean EVERY thing. Sean is just the typical 4 year old that likes to play without putting things away. Actually, that isn't all true. Sean will put toys away if you ask and/or help him. It's the influence of his brother's lack of putting things away that Sean likes to imitate. Now after working in their room for over six hours, it's finished. The downside? My hallway looks like a toystore exploded! Stuffed animals, books, and puzzles are in piles along the walls. I don't want to put them in the room, I want to toss them out. Oh well! Here's to neat and tidy rooms across the country! =) http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/truckerswife/179003/ Sat, 5 Aug 2006 14:00:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/truckerswife/179003/ What possess a person to feel they have the right to interfere in another person's life?  I mean, if Bob was not married to Sue, and Sue lived over a thousand miles away from Bob with her husband and children, why would Bob think he was allowed to butt in to her life?  I ask this because my husbands uncle has launched an all out attach on my life.  Well, our life.  I'm the one who gets to deal with him as my wonderful husband is on the road.  But don't worry, my husband got the entire conversations, word for word.  And he finally called his uncle when he had a signal for more than five minutes.  (His uncle is a talker!)    The conversations we've had over the past few days have left me realizing that God knows.  I mean, He wrote in the Bible about not borrowing money from family.  And He said that for a reason.  Now we didn't borrow money from him, just bought some land from him.  Wouldn't that count as it being ours to do with as we please?  I thought so.  But my husbands uncle has been calling and telling us in not so many nice words what we should be doing with the land.  Reason is not in this mans vocabulary, let me tell ya.   Anyways, I am amazed at how people can view the world.  Ok, this hasn't been a shocker, but the fact that a person can insist, and I do mean insist, that he has a right to know what is going on in a person's life while insisting he isn't being nosey.  I don't get it.  Did I miss the sign that welcomed me to insane city when I married my husband?  LOL    Thanks for letting me speak my thoughts out loud...well, sorta!  :-) http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/truckerswife/177418/ Thu, 3 Aug 2006 01:45:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/truckerswife/177418/ Nine!  :)  I decorated the dining room with birthday balloons and a birthday banner.  Not to mention the balloon theme tablecloth and window clings.  Well, the clings were from Sean's 4th birthday, but no one seemed to mind. ;-)  Matt thought it was a nice surprise when he went into the kitchen this morning.    We still did our lesson, but don't let him in on the secret.  We did about 4 different light experiments and he LOVED it.  If "it" has anything to do with science, he is there with both eyes, ears, and hands.    His cousins from Texas called and sang "Happy Birthday" to him.  My brother called later on and played his singing birthday cake platter.  (He's on the phone again asking twenty questions to the kid right now.  LOL)    For dinner, Matt wanted chicken nuggets, freedom fries, and a glass of RC.  He called it a big kids meal.  I did not go to any fast food joint to pick up dinner; I went to my freezer instead.  My father gave him both Spiderman movies, and I let him open the first one before we ate so we could eat picnic style in the living room.  He was happy about it.  Okay, all three kids were thrilled about the movie and dinner.  Shannon called to sing the birthday song while we sang to him with his cake.  (These are the times that makes Shannon really hate being on the road.)     Matt said he had a great birthday as he went to bed.  All is well!      http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/truckerswife/174721/ Sat, 29 Jul 2006 01:21:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/truckerswife/174721/ So continue at your own risk. 8P   This is about my husband's sister.  I love them all equally, yet they don't see it that way.  Well, one doesn't.  She insists that I have an attitude with her.  We don't talk on the phone but have exchanged emails.  My question is: how can an attitude show through an email?  I don't do THIS when I type.  I write the regualr way I type, inserting these annoying faces :) every now and then.  As well as adding "LOL" when it deems to do so.  If I had an attitude, I think I would know about it.  Don't ya think?  ~shrug~   I was talking to Karli this afternoon and she mentioned that Jen and her were talking about me yesterday.  Not that I care about them talking about me.  Jen went into this big thing about me giving her an attitude and not liking her.  I don't have any bad feelings towards her.  I know what she's like, that's all there is to it.  But EVERYONE knows what she's like, so whatever.  ~again with the shrug thing~  Anyways, I'm at a standstill.  Should I call her and comfront her?  I mean I have no ill feelings towards her.  She is a Christian as well, but a new one and I'm trying to decide if I do talk to her, how blunt do I be?  Would she get her tail feathers ruffled if I just came out and said "hey, I don't have any problems with you.  Get over it" ?  Okay, okay, I wouldn't say the last part.  But that's part of how I feel right now.  I don't want this to be some silent drama.  I mean she got upset because I brought clothes to Jersey for her--knowing she would be there a few weeks after we left--instead of sending them to her house in Virginia.  (I'm in Indian, mind ya.  AND I happened to grab the clothes for her just like I grabbed stuff for my other siblings who were also in Jersey for a visit.  My sister lives in Texas, but she flew out to Jersey and I handed her a bag for her kids.  Anne didn't get offended by me no shipping them.  She thought it was an inovative way to save shipping charges for a box.)  Yeah, yeah, back to Jen.  What am I going to do with her?  Honestly, I wasn't thinking about shipping charges, I was thinking as I walked through the boys room, "oh, I can bring this to Mom's since Jen will be there in a week."    So I am putting this out in cyberspace now.  What should I do?  I want to call her, but how do I say it without sounding like I have an "attitude?"  =)    Thanks! I feel much better now that I wrote this.  http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/truckerswife/173445/ Wed, 26 Jul 2006 21:45:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/truckerswife/173445/