WOW what an eventful and FUN weekend we had.

Saturday started out with an art class at the craft store. Joey used ‘model magic’ from crayola and covered a circle box with green and orange. Then he used mini cookie cutters ( im sure there is a proper art name for them) and make little clay decorations.. it looks beautiful.

From art we went to the Notary, yes I have been a bit delinquent in notifying the state of my Homeschooling… oh well..  then we went to the Post Office, I had to mail several items and pick up from our PO Box… YEAH my shipment came, I got a new pair of pants and new boots…

Then we ended up at the mall and had some great Valentines day pictures of Joey.  We did some more shopping at the mall while we were there.  On the way home we stopped at the LIBRARY, I paid off the fines and renewed our membership.  We live out of district for the library that is closest to our home. It is a very nice library system and the $10 a quarter is money well spent.  Joey got 8 movies and a ton of books.  He is re-reading “The Lighthouse Series’ by Cynthia Rylant.   Once we got home we went to the pool for about 20 mins.  Yes the pool in February.. don’t ya love Arizona.   After a short rest we went to dinner and I went shopping, I found another pair of pants and a t-shirt… Total cost of that $40 plus my delivered items at $20, not to shabby for this mommy.

Sunday we slept in, went to lunch at Mc Donalds in Walmart.  Joey and I picked up some odds and ends and fresh cookies and donuts… Man were they YUMMY… for dinner I cooked Chicken, Mashed taters and veggies.  We have enough chicken for the week now which will make dinners very simple after work.

Then Sunday night we did some serious homework.  Joey spent about 30 minutes on Math and completed ½ the ‘money’ chapter.  I hope we finish the lessons tonight.  He is really flying through Math, soon I will need to decide if we are going to get a different 2^nd grade book or move on to 3^rd grade.  He is still struggling with handwriting, quite honestly I don’t think he has the patience which is fine at this point.  His verbal skills are great.  He did work about 10 mins on spelling and grammar books. 

Today I sent him with a reading assignment and spelling games.  That should be fun.

On a totally different topic his sitter quit on me Friday, its just as well as I was getting ready to fire her.  She left my child alone in her room for 8 hrs and let him watch Nickelodeon, something he is NOT allowed to watch and he told her that.  Wednesday she didn’t feed him lunch so Thursday I packed his lunch and the sitter gave ½ his lunch to her kid.  HOW RUDE.  The only conflict with me on Friday was after she tried to refund my 4 days overpayment ( I paid ahead a couple days) she gave me a bad check.  I found this out when I took it right to her bank and they said ‘sorry no funds in the account’  Yes I high tailed it back to her doorstep and got CASH.

Joey really loves the Art sessions and Im hoping to make that part of our Saturday routine.  Michaels has a wonderful kids program from 10am-noon  its pretty much on a drop in basis for $2 your child gets a 30 min craft.  This also helps with our Art at home, he can do some messy projects there instead of my living room.  This coming Saturday I have to work in the morning but I’m hoping the sitter will take him.  This week is FOAM  oh man he loves to work with foam sheet and glue.

I hope to be able to figure out how to post some pictures soon

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