This week I have been sick. Yesterday was the worst. Luckily Brian was off so I could sleep. I have asthma and when I get a cold it seems to go straight to my chest. Today I am feeling better. I tell ya, when momma is sick it is rough!

I re-added my diet page. I had deleted it, but then decided I would add it back. I change my mind so much! I am never satisfied with stuff. I like change! Sometimes that is good, and other times it is BAD!

Not much has been going on around here. The boys helped Brian do some tree clearing yesterday. I went out to watch for a bit, but then started to feel bad and so Isaiah and I headed for the house and went back to bed. I am so thankful he allowed me to sleep!

We did not get any school done today. Since I was feeling better, I had so much cleaning to do. That is the bad thing about being a mom and a teacher! Ha! Although there is learning in anything we do.

The weather the past few days has been awesome. We could use some rain, but I love the warmer weather. Cold weather makes me hurt!

cleaning 101 continued

Yesterday I finished the other room that need A LOT of TLC!!! It was my school room. The sad thing is last month I had cleaned it really good and then .... here I go again. Isaiah sort of helped in the mess though. He took a bunch of the books off the shelves. So luckily for me it was mostly books and some papers that kids did not throw away.




So now that room is done and mom is happy! Not to mention Brian who has been patient on the house!! I am thankful the rest of the house was clean, just this room and boys' room were disaster areas ready to be condemned!!! So today I am going to steam vac my carpets and do laundry. Not much to do!!! We have some friends coming down to help Brian with our fence. So I have to make dinner, which is not big deal cause I have to cook anyway. I also need to sit down and work on a lesson plan for the week. That takes a bit of time!

Cleaning 101

Yesterday we took it easy since Logan hurt his foot... well they took it easy mom worked! My house needed some drastic attention. I did manage to get the living room, kitchen, study, and the boys' room cleaned. I still need to do the carpets (steam vac) and mop. The boys' room took me over an hour to do which is totally insane. I cleaned it last month like that too. This time it was worse! What gives? I got a garbage bag of junk out of there. They are pack rats!!! My boys are old enough to clean their room themselves. Do any of you other mother's have trouble with this? Here are some before and after shots of their room.

Today I have to run to the bank, stop at the Dollar General, then stop at the Library to return some books, and I need to check out some on our next state of study California. I am also thinking about studying one country a month and allowing the boys to make a dinner for that country. Have them make a display of it as well. Do this instead of a dinner on each state that Logan usually does. I want Zack to be included as well. And lastly come home to finish up on my cleaning 101. My bedroom, bathroom, and the school room need cleaned. I will probably steam vac the carpets on Saturday. I do need to get some school done today, so some of my cleaning 101 will have to go to Saturday. I did read to the boys, but not Harriet Beecher Stowe. We read a book on different breeds of horses, a book on box turtles, and a fun book. So they learned there. They played Scrabble yesterday and tried to spell as many words as they could. So all in all even though I was unable to do school, they still had a learning day. Today Logan is making his Hawaiian meal. That should be FUN!

I added some links to the side under Favorite Places, so far what I have added are additional blogs to this main blog. I have one for recipes and another for lesson plans. I will add my lessons sometime soon for next week. Anyway just wanted to let my readers know.