Just blathering…

Since hardly anyone reads this, I am just going to do a train of thought entry, so here goes.


 


I am feeling rather blaw today.  I don't know why.  It might be hormones, might be because dh is leaving for two weeks, might be cause I am tired, but I feel really sad.  I actually laid on the couch earlier and had tears streaming down my face.  N asked me why I was crying, and I said, “because you guys don't obey me….”  She said, “Tomorrow morning I will obey you.”  A few minutes later, she said, “Mommy, you make me cry…”  She is so sweet.  I told her I was sorry, dried my eyes, and hugged her.  I's solution was to start cleaning for me.  I have heard of the love languages, and I think his must be service.  He got the wood spray, and started cleaning off the piano.  Then A got in on the act, and started to take over the piano, almost resulting in a fight.  I suggested that A do the corner cabinet.  Fight disbanded.


 


I made frozen pizza for dinner…what a sloth.  I just have no ambition to do anything today.  I need some drive.  I think I will turn off the computer when I finish this, and not turn it on tomorrow.  I don't think I need it for school, so it shouldn't be a problem.  I need to go do some laundry, and then go to bed early.


 


N has a slight fever.  I noticed it when she was snuggling with me.  It is only around 100, but I can tell she isn't feeling well.  She ate a piece of pizza, but it took her forever.  I wasn't about to make her eat much.  My SIL brought my neice over the other day, and a few days later, she was throwing up, so I am really hoping that isn't what is affecting N.


 


Tomorrow the homeschool group has ice skaing planned.  I was kind of looking forward to going, since all of the kids have skates, and they like to get out there.  Plus it helps them burn energy and then they sleep well, but if N isn't feeling better we may not get to go.  I don't think my MIL has to work tomorrow, so she would probably keep her…hmmm….I'll have to call her later and see.


 


Well, M is trying to climb into my lap, so I guess that is my que to get off of the computer.  Poor neglected baby.  He also knows how to push the keyboard tray under the desk, as an act of desperation to get me off the computer.  He has done that now, so I should go get him jammied and read a book to him.  I want him, N, and I in bed by 8pm.  We'll see if that happens….

I Corinthians 13 For Mothers

I Corinthians 13 For Mothers
Adapted by Jim Fowler


If I live in a house of spotless beauty with everything in its place,
but have not love,
I am a housekeeper ­ not a homemaker.
If I have time for waxing, polishing, and decorative achievements,
but have not love,
my children learn cleanliness ­not godliness.
If I scream at my children for every infraction,
and fault them for every mess they make,
but have not love,
my children become people-pleasers­ not obedient children.


Love leaves the dust in search of a child's laugh.
Love smiles at the tiny fingerprints on a newly cleaned window.
Love wipes away the tears before it wipes up the spilled milk.
Love picks up the child before it picks up the toys.


Love accepts the fact that I am the ever-present “mommy,”
the taxi-driver to every childhood event,
the counselor when my children fail or are hurt.


Love crawls with the baby, walks with the toddler, and runs with the child,
then stands aside to let the youth walk into adulthood.


Before I became a mother I took glory in my house of perfection.
Now I glory in God's perfection of my child.
All the projections I had for my house and my children
have faded away into insignificance,
And what remain are the memories of my kids.


Now there abides in my home scratches on most of the furniture,
dishes with missing place settings,
and bedroom walls full of stickers, posters and markings,
But the greatest of all is the Love
that permeates my relationships with my children.

Guess what we heard yesterday!!!

Thump-thump-thump-thump about 160 times a minute!


 


That’s right!  The M. family is happy to announce that we are expecting a new little bundle of joy around August 31st!  We even got to see our little “Joey,” as one of the boys called it.  (“We should call it “Joey,” like a kangaroo!”)  I was measuring bigger than my guesstimated dates, and since my last two were about two weeks early, they wanted the due date to be more precise, so off for an ultrasound we went.


 


The kids were excited to hear the heartbeat, but even more excited to see the little one bouncing around in my tummy!  I am almost 12 weeks along!

William the Conqueror and the Battle of Hastings

This is what we will be studying in History this week.  I am learning so much with these Veritas Press History cards!  So many fun activities to go along with it too.  This week, we will be doing some paintings of some of the scenes of the Bayeaux  Tapestry.  Here is an interesting site to learn about it.   http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/bayeaux_tapestry.htm

Going to see Diane Waring tomorrow

Well, tomorrow I get to go *all by myself* to hear Diane Waring speak, all day!  I have to leave rather early, and in this cold weather (-20 again today! Yuck!) it doesn't sound that inviting to start the car at 7:00am, but it will be worth it, I hope.  I don't know a lot about her, but I guess at the end of the day tomorrow I will.


 


Well, I am off to make more muffins for snacks after church tomorrow.  I have made banana muffins and am going to try to make blueberry and poppyseed muffins too.  It seems like there was another one I was going to do too, but I can't think of what it was now.  We will see how far I get.  It's already 7:30pm and we have a movie about sharks to watch with the kids.

In what states have I lived or been to?

Ok… this blog exercise says to bold face the states you have been to… underline the states you have lived in…..


 





Alabama / Alaska / Arizona / Arkansas / California / Colorado / Connecticut / Delaware / Florida / Georgia / Hawaii / Idaho / Illinois / Indiana / Iowa /Kansas/Kentucky / Louisiana / Maine / Maryland / Massachusetts / Michigan / Minnesota / Mississippi/ Missouri / Montana / Nebraska / Nevada / New Hampshire / New Jersey / New Mexico / New York / North Carolina / North Dakota / Ohio / Oklahoma / Oregon / Pennsylvania / Rhode Island / South Carolina / South Dakota / Tennesse/ Texas / Utah / Vermont / Virginia / Washington / West Virginia / Wisconsin / Wyoming / Washington D.C /



It was kind of fun to look back over the trips across country I have made.  Most of the states I have just mostly driven through.  I would eventually like to *really* visit some of them.  I am the opposite of “Through It All's” adventures.  I was born on the West Coast, and currently live in Alaska, so I have been to mostly the West Coast area.  Dh and I were married while dh was still finishing up college, so we lived in MI for a year and drove around a bit while we were down there.  Mostly long nights of driving for a specific destination (New York, Maine) so I didn't really “visit” the states in between.


 


What we would really like to do as a family is take several months and drive around the U.S. and have a family adventure.  Maybe once we get our building projects caught up, we can think about something like that.

My baby is SO smart!

M today, on two seperate occasions, did something that made dhand I just look at each other in wonder!  First, dh was fixing some things on my computer for me while I observed.  M, who *just* turned one, toddled up to me with a sippy cup and lid, and said, “Eese, eese?” (His version of please.)


 


The second thing he did, only about an hour later, is while I was making dinner, he went over to the cupboard, pulled out his bowl, brought it to me, and said the same thing, “Eese, eese?”


 


Poor thristy and hungry baby!


 


Oh, and have I mentioned that he climbs ladders, stools, boxes, etc, anything to get him up and into things?!!?  He is such a little stinker!


 


A couple of days ago, we caught him up on the step stool, with one foot on the handle of the stool, one dangling in the air, and his fingers pressed onto the window ledge of the hutch!   The next day, he climbed a chair next to the kitchen counter and got into the muffins which were sitting there.


 


I am going to have to keep a diligent eye on this one!