Long morning this morning.  It started with me spending an hour looking for my kids new math books that I could of sworn I ordered.   Alas I can't find them anywhere.  Now I'm trying to decide if I reorder and spend another $50, or punt with the teachers manual and the sheets they allow me to photocopy.  *growls*

I also temporarily lost my kids other work books, but mostly thats cause I was panicking so bad I couldn't see them, they were precisely where they belonged. 

Jer has a cold and a mild fever.  He spent all morning in mine or Robs arms.  HE know has cough & cold in him and is down playing for the first time ALL by himself.  *cheers* 

And our hot tub is getting wired.   YEAH!!!!!! 

Oh wait forgot I had this.  Are my kids country kids or what???  Sorry its a bit blurry it was raining rather hard.  LOL

If your from Washington, intrigued by maps, or ocean coasts.

This is fabulous.  Click on the map, and then click a second time little red dots will apear, click on a dot, then click on the picture.   One you get into the pictures just hit the arrow and you can "fly" over the whole coast line of Washington.  Just very cool, well at least for me.  I've spend literally hours looking at pictures.  *grin*

This is the view of our new home town.  Click on it for the bigger picture.  I've circled our property     Too much fun. 

Good morning

Last nights sleep was a teensy better then the night before, but not much.  LOL  Jer wasn't much in the mood to sleep.  The irony is its 8:19 and now he's sleeping soundly.  *sighs*  Wish I was.

Instead my kids are already outside playing hard. 

Rob is digging a small ditch, so the electrician can finally wire our hot tub.  I've missed it!!!!  The electrician is coming tomorrow.  *cheers*  He will also be wiring the sceptic system, which means the seller can finally get the last of his money.  Up to this point we've been plugging in the sceptic system to pump it every couple days.  ROFL  Not exactly the best way, but it worked. 

The G.I.  clinic called and we have an appointment for Rainee on January 17th.  I think Rainee and I will drive to Seattle alone.  Its now a 4.5 hour drive or more.   We will spend the night and come back the next day.  I just can't imagine trying to do it all in one day along with the doctors apoinments.   We talked about doing it all together and still may, it just depends. 

Before that they have requested of my doctor some more tests for Rainee. *sigh*  So Friday we will take Kaylin in for her routine blood work, and Rainee will also get blood work, urine, and stool samples, and something else I think, but oy I'm loosing track.   This will give them a head-start on the information they need.    I haven't missed this game.

The good news is they called me, and I didn't have to work through the stupid mechanical telephone system, and the receptionist was sweet and had a good sense of humor.    So, it will all work out.  I keep telling myself.

Rob actually researched why they are doing the tests, and he says it is legit, and we need to humor them.   UGH.  I just UGH.  I've been living in denial and stuffing it all.  I don't want to deal with the fact that we're probably gonna put Rainee under anethesia again.  So I humm a lot and go play on the boards LOL.   After the 17th hopefully we can know what we're dealing with, then I'll stress.  Ha!

Tonight is Awana, so I will head for Joyce about 5:30 and get home about 9:45.  Gearing up for that mentally as it currently sounds like work.  LOL  

Good morning

Life feels much better today, which is funny considering I got no sleep last night either.  Zeria had nightmares...three of them.   She ended up sleeping on our floor.  They were very vivid, and actually succeeded in freaking Rob and I out a bit.  LOL   Rainee woke up to discover Zeria was missing and started crying, so she ended up on Rob's side of the bed.  And Jer did his normal wake up in the middle of the night thing.  

I made the phone call to E yesterday.  She hopes to come visit this weekend.  If she doesn't that's okay, at least I tried.    I also have a lead on a very close neighbor with kids.

The suggestions about church are great, except the churches available don't have umm a great reputation.  Their social functions, versus faith functions.  We have calls into both pastors, but can't get ahold of either of them.  We want to actually interview them, and assure ourselves that hersay isn't just that.  

At this point the church we are the most comfortable with is actually the Catholic church, because they still believe in the inherancy of Scripture.  And I'm still just a bit edgy about going there.  I have several awesome friends who go, I'm just not a liturgical kind of person.    The emphasis on Mary also makes me a bit concerned.  But, I might try.  LOL  Who knows.

School is going well, and without conflict.   We have one more day of blend letters, and then we're going to switch our emphasis to some serious hands on math.   I have superb teachers manuals for manipulative math that I would like to really dig into rather, then the little dipping we've been doing.

And Zeria just sprained her ankle.  HMMM its gonna be a long day. 

My kitchen wall.  Its not quite done.  But pretty close.  I will be painting the rest of the walls white.

What do you think all boy?  I let him "walk" outside.  He walked to the nearest mud puddle, and sat down.   And stayed there for fifteen minutes.  Yup, definitely alllll boy.

Good morning.

I'm awake.  And so wish I wasn't. 

Our new bedroom however is just not ameneable to sleeping in.   Right next to the living room, and my children are LOUD.

LOUD.

LOL

Gonna go back to "regular" school today.   Working through the last of the blends.   The oo reads look,  ch reads church etc.   Each one has a story to go with it.   When we are done with these, we will start on some extra math manipulative/stories that I have.  My kids with their many issues just can't take too many new concepts at once.   So, each day their reading in two work books, we're doing one major hands on project, and the rest is low key "unschool" stuff.   Its working well.   From time to time I have a moment of panic thinking of all the things I would like them to learn, and then remember to breathe.

I'm a little restless all of a sudden at home.  My friend from church summed it up well, in that I'm in the stage that I'm moved in, but it just doesn't really feel like home yet.  I also keep wondering how I'm supposed to get involved in the community, and praying hard.  I want to get to know people, but our property is isolated, and we are still going to our old church.  I have this burning urge to meet people, and no clue how to do it.   If the kids were going to school it would go that way, but I've been assured the school here is not great, and besides I know my two oldest in particular would absolutely NOT do well in a p/s setting.    ADHD and school just don't flow well together.  LOL   Put this together with my kids in ability to fight peer pressure, and wham we would have serious problems every day.

I like them the way they are.  So, I stay committed to this road we're on.

But how to get to know people.  I keep praying.  And I need to break down and make a phone call to the *one* contact in the community I sort of no.  Its just that whole phone phobia thing ya know?  I hate hate hate the phone.  LOL