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I received this in an email today.
The Best Day Of My Life
As the day ends and I lay my head down on my pillow, I will thank the Almighty for the best day of my life. And I will sleep the sleep of a contented child, excited with expectation because I know tomorrow is going to be the best day of my life, ever!
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We are taking off from school this week. But next week we are going to start working our butts off! Kayley needs to get caught up on science and math and dani needs to get caught up on math. I don't usually compare them to public school kids but the older they get the more pressure there will be on them to get certain things done by certain times. None of us are really looking forward to it. lol It's going to be a lot of hard work but it needs to be done. I'm also making the younger work harder. I don't want to be kicking myself 5 years from now when Juli is older like I am doing now. Learned MY lesson! Kayley is making homemade clay so the little kids can make dreidels(sp?). Dani is going to try and make latkes later. No, we aren't Jewish. I have always wanted to do Hanukkah but the time issue never seems to work out. I still have not wrapped one single gift. I need to do it. Kayley and Dani offered to wrap all the little kids presents, I just need to wrap theirs. |
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While I was playing on Google map (thanks T!!!) Ryan went potty by himself. he wants to be a "bigder boy" and wear "unwears". He turned on the water and plugged up the sink and flowed water all over the sink and floor. It was like a movie. We were too busy trying to clean it up to think of taking pictures. This is the same little boy who got into Balmex and spiked his hair and wiped it all over his baby sisters arms, drew on his face with a permanent marker, got into toothpaste 2xs and spread it ALL over himself, the floor, the bed, the walls. The same little boy who climbed on the table, grabbed the white-out, and with Megan in tow, ran into his closet and colored the walls, a toy donut, and their drawers. So we let this little 3 yo go potty alone??? I'm still blaming T!!! lol |
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I can't make home fries to save my life, apparently. We bought 50 lbs of white potatoes for 14.00 and so far I've tried baking them ( didn't turn out right), we did something else with them that was just ok, and now I tried making home fries. I quit. I guess we will be eating MASHED potatoes for the next week or 2. I saw on a web site that a family of 8 spends only 350.00 a month on groceries. I do not see how they could possibly only spend that. I can could spend that in a week and we only have one more person!! I'm trying to figure out ways of cutting back on how much we spend. Walmart gets a large part of our money because they are so cheap and we live in a small town with few other choices. The other grocery stores are way more expensive and there are no clothing stores for kids. There is one clothing store for women and teens but that's it. I am almost ready for CHRISTmas except for the fact we do not have our tree up yet!!! CHRISTmas is 10 days away and we have no tree up. I don't have any other decorations, Alex is too lazy to put up lights, lol, and our kids are too destructive for indoor decorations. Ah well, we can decorate when we are grandparents. Or not, since I have told my children I hopethey all have kids JUST like them! ;-) |
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It's Sunday and what am I doing? Well, I am NOT planning this weeks school lessons!!! I am NOT searching for sites, books, worksheets, lapbooks, etc. Because it's all done. It is such a relief to be able to do other things. Have I mentioned how much I love Sonlight? The house is somewhat clean. Kayley and Dani are going through their clothes and putting some ( not enough, imo) into the give-away pile. They have waaaay too many clothes. I probably shouldn't complain since there are so many people who don't have enough. I just told the girls that maybe we should carry them in the van and when we see a homeless woman give them to her. There are no more co-op classes till after Christmas so we will be doing school work Monday-Friday like NORMAL people instead of Sunday-Tuesday, and Thursday. But a friend is coming over Tuesday so maybe we will be doing school on Saturday to make up. Good thing we don't strive for normal around here!!! I am almost done Christmas shopping. I need to check and see who got what. With 7 kids it's hard to keep things even but I am trying. |
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It's Sunday and what am I doing? Well, I am NOT planning this weeks school lessons!!! I am NOT searching for sites, books, worksheets, lapbooks, etc. Because it's all done. It is such a relief to be able to do other things. Have I mentioned how much I love Sonlight? The house is somewhat clean. Kayley and Dani are going through their clothes and putting some ( not enough, imo) into the give-away pile. They have waaaay too many clothes. I probably shouldn't complain since there are so many people who don't have enough. I just told the girls that maybe we should carry them in the van and when we see a homeless woman give them to her. There are no more co-op classes till after Christmas so we will be doing school work Monday-Friday like NORMAL people instead of Sunday-Tuesday, and Thursday. But a friend is coming over Tuesday so maybe we will be doing school on Saturday to make up. Good thing we don't strive for normal around here!!! I am almost done Christmas shopping. I need to check and see who got what. With 7 kids it's hard to keep things even but I am trying. |
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I have found something I do not like about Sonlight. I don't like stopping some of the reading after only one chapter!!!! I want to keep reading!!!!!!!! Oh...wait...this isn't about ME, it's about my kids education. Well, KAYLEY wants to keep reading too!!! Dani does not. :-P I ordered the timeline figures from Sonlight today for cores 3 and 6. And I ordered the current SL 6 language arts. I like their language arts but I have an older, used guide and I'm a little bit confused with it. Ok, I'm VERY confused. lol Juli is not hating SL 3 like she thought but she does NOT like reading aloud. I am very happy with the progress she is making though. Even after only 2 whole days I have seen an improvement in her reading. I realized the other day that I spend the majority of my day doing school with somebody. Reading to people, doing math, listening to someone read, checking stuff. No wonder I can't get laundry done. Maybe we should stop wearing clothes. Yea! That would solve the laundry problem!!!! |
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i've got a toddler on my lap so i'm typing one-handed. dh worked till the wee hours of the morning so i'm doing all i can to keep the youngest 5 quiet. this is not easy!!! i read about 7 books to them, a ch. of a child's story of america, rod and staff's bible stories, and part of clp nature reader. i finally found a way to be comfortablewhile reading to them and have them be able too see the books at the same time. i laid on the floor and had them sit on the side and behind me. i'm waiting, not patiently, for the first batch of sl 3 books to arrive. amazon is pretty quick but not when you are waiting!! lol today is a school day for us. i know it's sunday but we have co-op classes on wed. and dh is off on friday and saturday. so we do school sun-thurs.
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A little about me. I've been married for almost 19 years. We have 7 wonderful children. kayley 15, Dani 13, Juli 9, Alex 6, James 5, Ryan 3, and Megan 2. Our lives are pretty chaotic most of the time but I wouldn't change it if I could. We have a farm with too many animals to list. You name it, we have it have had it. Almost. We don't have a garden of any kind because I KILL plants!!! Plants see me and shrivel and die!!! I keep trying to talk DH into planting one but he hasn't done it yet. We've been homeschooling for over 6 years. In that time I have tried many, many currics. And ways of homeschooling. From unschooling to school-at-home. I have finally taken a plunge and bought the one curric I have looked at over and over. SONLIGHT!!!! I am using SL 6 with Kayleyand Dani. The rest will be doing SL 3 if the book ever gets here!!! I bought it used and plan on buying a few books at a time. But next year I am buying it new and from Sonlight! I simply don't have the time or energy to keep making up curric and figuring out what we will do from day to day. I've been doing THAT for a long time now. We use Saxon for math. Again, we've tried a lot of math. Teaching Textbooks, Abeka, Miquon, Key to..., Math-U-See, Making Math Meaningful, etc. Saxon is really the only thing I have found that has enough review and makes sense. I'm using Saxon Phonics with Juli, Alex, and James. I like that it tells me what to do and has almost everything there. No more looking for books, activities, worksheets, etc. Just do what the lesson says. I need that at this point in my life. We've done a lot of lapbooks and while I LOVE the way they look after, I don't think my kids have learned much at all from them. Which really stinks because they look so dang COOL!!! So, I'm sticking with Sonlight. Ever since I made that decison I have felt such relief!!! It's like God was answering my prayer, I was just too stubborn to hear. I like that everything is laid out for me. I am tired of library fees (who can ever get those books back on time??), trying to add movies, adding real books to boring textbooks, thinking about what would make this more intersting, etc. My little kids like hands-on stuff but it takes me longer to get the stuff together than it does for them to DO the stuff. I will still let them do some hands-on things but I'm done making myself crazy over it. |