One of Those Days When You Think About Quitting
So. Today was not a good one. Remember when I wrote about the 3rd week of school being kinda bumpy? But then I got all strict with the boys and they shaped up. They've been deteriorating again. This morning it took 2 hours to go through about 40 minutes worth of...
Breaking Free
Breaking Free by Beth Moore is a wonderful Bible study. The subtitle for the book is Making Liberty in Christ a Reality in Life. This is the workbook version, and it's broken up into ten weeks of lessons. This study definitely takes some effort to complete, but I...
What’s on Your Guilt List?
I haven't been posting a great deal this week. There's nothing wrong, I'm just recovering from the family trip we took last week to Virgina. There's lots to tell, and I promise I'll start writing again tomorrow. I've been working my fingers to the bone making a few...
Favorite Vacation Quotes
It went down the wrong end. Captain Earthquake, explaining a coughing fit during lunch. Do I need to rev it up? The Mercenary, taking a photo with the digital camera after getting used to the 35mm. HHhhhhAAAAaaaaaaa! TechnoBoy, coming up out of the water after...
6 Encouraging Signs of Progress for the Older Boys
I've seen some encouraging signs of progress in the older boys lately. they played make-believe games with the little boys last week when I was working at the church office. Like, actual pretending to run a restaurant and make food with the toy kitchen. They love to...
Never mind the bat…I wanted sympathy!
Having a bat in the house can be stressful. I haven't shared a funny in several days, and Hubby reminded me of this story so I thought I'd post it. I fell asleep one evening on the couch while Hubby was working in what was the office at the time. TechnoBoy and The...
A Bumpy 3rd Week of School
We survived week 3, but it was a rocky one. Okay. So last week started out just awful. Monday I told the boys that their spelling books were going to arrive on Tuesday after being on backorder. Last year, spelling took us about ten or fifteen minutes per day. No...
End of the Second Week of the School Year
And good things to report! I got an absolutely GIGANTIC reward this morning. See, last year one of the tricks I tried to make things more palatable was to let the older boys work independently on handwriting, spelling practice, and the phonics workbook. This...
Greatness in the Ordinary
I've been thinking a lot lately about things like status and identity, people's roles in life...that sort of thing. We've all gotten the message at least once that you have to make a big splash in life, to have fame or fortune to be successful. I wonder why we...
First Day of the New School Year: We Survived
Well. I knew the boys were anxious about starting school again, but I had no idea how anxious. It all started with getting them out of bed about an hour earlier than they are accustomed. Turns out a certain brilliant (ahem) individual made a doctor's appointment...