This Mama thinks she is done!

Okay I'm gonna say it! I think my kids have gotten dumber. Yup I put it out there. Not even 30 seconds after the directions the entire page was wrong!!! Not even 2 minutes after a definition the reasoning was wrong. Was not even able to complete instructions and got the "I get it." answer and ALL the problems were wrong.

Are you kidding me?!?!?

Here comes the bus will be my theme song real soon!!!

(Sorry about the venting!)

Summary of the 1st week of 2010 - School week that is!

Okay so on Wednesday we had book club. We are working our way through the Chronicles of Narnia. We complete Voyage of the Dawn Treader book 5. Only 2 more left. I only listened to a portion of this book. So as far as recommending can't help you there. You will need to contact the kids on that one. The really funny thing about this weeks book club was Stacy. A mom to two of the boys that are in the older group. She informed us that she can't stand this series. Yup, she even went so far and used the "hate" word. She was leading the young ones and she even informed them that she hates this series. Some of us are waiting to see what the young ones repeat when we begin the next book. (I should not hear that from Ab as she likes the series. I mostly think it is because she listens to it and doesn't have to read it. Josh on the other hand is not too thrilled with the whole book club idea. So I think the comment would come from him.) But you see there is a family whose 9 year old daughter is extremely negative. I mean I don't recall hearing a positive word out of her mouth. So I feel for that Mom. Back to Stacy - she informed us that her boys are not too thrilled either so she said if we were sticking with another fantasy series they would not be involved. That would stink since her oldest is a buddy of Stephen's and one of the reasons we do this book club. We will take any and all suggestions you may have in regards to a book club for boys ages 10-13.

Thursday was rather shocking as I discovered that Abigail was just clicking off her work and not completing it or not even doing it. I think she was surprised that I was on top of the school work. I was very behind right before the break. But this year I want to stay on top of this and stay on schedule. So imagine her surprise when I called her on it. She lost some privileges here. Namely the chance to horse back ride again. (Silly girl - every time she has gotten close she has messed up big time!) She started back to piano lessons and loved it. The teacher is so impressed with her creativity.

Friday was a pretty good morning and then off to check out a house in the afternoon. Bill was a little late to the house and arrived when the realtor and I were leaving the house. Rick (our realtor) told Bill to get back in his car and keep going. This house was horrible. I was shocked at the price of the house for all that is needed. Rick agreed that it should be about 80 grand lower. I was ready to move on. But the upside to this was Bill and I got to have lunch together. That makes two times this week!!! I love it!!! We even stopped by this cute coffee shop. I enjoyed the setting and plan on stopping back there. Night time was youth group for Stephen. He needed to attend due to the meeting for the Belize trip.

New Year, Same Dentist

Yup, I am back to the dentist to get this mouth taken care of. I really do like this dentist office. I must say that is helping this process. Today I had two teeth worked on. He was so nice to start at the easiest teeth. He said he would gently get me back into the swing of things. He mentioned that there will come a day when he can say that everything looks good upon peering into my mouth. I laughed. And joked that that would be when I was 50. He laughed too and then realized he did not know my age. When I said it was a mere 8 years away. He said, Oh no we will be done in a year. YEA!!!!!!!!!

I know Bill will also be happy when this is all over. Especially with the kids beginning in the next couple of weeks. AHHHHH!

The kids did well for two days in a row having to do work without Mama close by. I know this won't last long so I don't want to abuse this privilege. I actually prefer being around when they are doing work. I even have to beg them to sit with them sometimes. I am thrilled that they are independent but also know that there are some things I could add as they are doing work in order to drive it home more. Please know that I am NOT complaining, just commenting!

Here we go again!

Monday was quite a day. Had to drop off the van and with it being back to school work that proved to be a problem. So we began our year missing art class. The young ones were very sad. Bill helped me dropped off the van and then I had to take him to work so I had a vehicle to use. Especially since he was going out of town and if for some reason the van wasn't done he wanted me to have a car.

I did not get back home until 10 am. The children were listening to book on tape as we have book club this week. Around lunch time they called about the van. Yay! All was okay. I had to go back and get Bill so he could drive me over to get the van.

We decided to go out for lunch at Panera. Steal anytime we can since he was going out of town!

Did not get back home until 1:45 pm.

Two hours later we were leaving to go to basketball practice. Arrived back home at 8:00 pm. What a loooooong first day back!!

Problem is the rest of the week is busy too!

Sunday, Sunday, Sunday

Spent 2 hours this morning sitting at NTB while my van was being worked on. I still need to go back on Monday. Apparently they don't have access to a computer on the weekends. Note to self - DO NOT GO ON WEEKENDS!!!

Then it was off to church. I was glad to make church as I thought I would miss it due to the car situation. So, I guess it was okay that they couldn't do it all as I would have missed church. And church was great. Our pastor is teaching from Matthew. Today we were in chapter 26. It is were Mary is sitting at Jesus' feet anointing him with her years worth of perfume. The message from today is where do you sit? and do you stink? The where do you sit makes sense - we should be at Jesus' feet daily learning and listening. The do you stink is in regards to not sitting at Jesus' feet. You see when we sit there we have the aroma of Jesus Christ on us as we go about our dailys. But if we don't we tend to stink with smells of anger, bitterness, jealousy,... you get the idea.

So may this year find you sitting at Jesus' feet. (I know that is where I will be!)

Happy New Year

So hard to believe it is a new year and a new decade. Wow! Where does the time go?!? Anyway, I wanted to wish everyone a Happy and Blessed New Year. Looking forward to all the many, wonderful, and exciting things the Lord has in store for me this year.

I know one is a new home. I can't wait for that one!

So now I ask you, What do you know the Lord will do for you this year?

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