If winter brings on any more sickness I think I will scream. We had to miss the last co-op due to me being sick. I caught some bug while away in Amish Country. Then toward the end of the week Zack caught a terrible cold, and now Isaiah has a runny nose and cough. So we had to miss church yesterday. I did not get to go to my mom's for her early Thanksgiving dinner either. She had it early since she will be having her Gastric Bypass next week. I am none to happy about it, I worry because of her age and her health. What do I know? I sure hope no one else gets sick and it moves on out of my house!!! I have been trying to keep up with the house. I just can not seem to get ahead to save my neck! I think I am at the bottom of my hamper and then there is another load of clothes or I have all the dishes done before bed and wake up to a sink full of cups. I honestly think there must be these little people who live in my walls and just love to dirty stuff up! I would love to catch em'! It would be nice if they'd clean up after themselves. Whether little or big, a mess is a mess. A mother's job is never done!!!
Monday, October 27, 2008
Friday, October 17, 2008
Our Amish trip
We went away Tuesday night for a small trip. We had to go to Mount Vernon, Ohio for a funeral so Brian decided to take us through Sugarcreek, Ohio to see Amish Country. Sugarcreek is about 1 1/2 hours from Mount Vernon. Anyway we spent all day Wednesday in Sugarcreek and had lots of fun. Zack did not go with us. He wanted to stay with my in laws. He went on a trip to Columbus Zoo over Labor Day and Logan did not go to that. I guess they have decided to take turns. The funeral viewing was Wednesday night so around 4:00 we headed to Mount Vernon. We had to wait 2 hours to get into the building for viewing. I have never seen so many people in all my life. Bro. William Harding was a very well known preacher and missionary. He did the mission fields in Phillipines, Haiti, Dominican Republic, and Africa. He and his wife Sister Margaret worked the fields together. The funeral was at 11 am Thursday so I told Brian we had better leave early. We got their at 10:30 and had to wait 30 minutes to get in the door. I did not have a jacket and like to have froze to death. Sister Tigner was at the door and let me and Isaiah come in out of the cold. It was so crowded!!! The funeral lasted 2 hours. All of his children (5) had something to say about their father and the choir sang some beautiful songs. It was a very nice memorial service. After that Isaiah was fussy so we went to the car and did not go to the grave site. We headed back to Sugarcreek and went to eat at Troyer's Family Restaurant and then went local market looking for some deals but there were none and made a pit stop at a Chocolate place. Yummy!! We did find some deals the first day at a thrift store. I got a bunch of books for school. Why is it that homeschool moms run straight for the book section? Anyway it was a nice place.
Monday, October 13, 2008
Columbus day
How did you spend your Columbus Day? I met my sister at the park and we let the kids play. I brought some pizza and she brought the drinks, cups, ice, and plates. The kids had a lot of fun until the water fight! Zack got beat up by the girls! It was quite funny! He did not think so.
As you can see they had a BLAST! It was great being able to visit and talk with Melanie too! Shayla and Isaiah had fun swinging.
On another note, I fractured my third toe. Oh it has been killing me. I am supposed to tape my two toes together but that hurts too! Tonight I stumped it on the coffee table and cried like a big baby! Ouch!!! Also I have updated my recipe page and my lesson plan page. Hope you enjoy!!!
Monday, October 6, 2008
Monday, Monday
A start to a new week and my back is some better. I had to go out and take Logan to the Pawn shop cause my mother inlaw put a Nintendo DS on hold for him. She bought it cause his other one broke. I have tried to take it easy today cause I have been in bed all weekend. I thought I was going to end up in the hospital with my back. It really got bad! With me taking it easy today I have not did school. I can not sit, stand, or lay very long. It seems that I can not get comfortable. So I am having to do a little of each thing. I am taking Aleve and that is helping some. Over the weekend while Brian was able to take care of the boys I took Flexeril and all it did was make me sleep. I suppose that is one thing I did need. I am hoping tomorrow I can at least sit on the couch and do school. They will be doing some construction on the goat pen when Brian gets home from work so that will be Construction 101... and I will read the biography of Harriet Beecher Stowe to them tonight.
Nothing much has been going on around here. I suppose it has been a bit on the BORING side of life for me. Maybe as the week goes on it will get a bit more interesting.
Here are a couple pictures I took last week. Enjoy!
I thought the sky was beautiful. Look Closely and to me the blue area looks like a Pegasus "Horse"
