Sunday, December 12, 2010
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Whats really sad is this heading pops up automatically when I start to type. I've been busy all of last month with mom and dad here, then they left, then Thanksgiving, and now I'm doing lots with my vinyl business trying to make some money so we can sponsor a family for Christmas. I got BushCreative up on FB, and did a big giveaway with SimplyB. Now Brady got me onto twitter and I'm exploring the marketing aspects there.
The kids are good. We have started volume 1 of Beyond 5 in a Row and they are really enjoying it. Carter is in rock climbing, Tys in MMA, and Thursday Katrina will join Carter in rock climbing. Its a kids club that meets for 2 hours 2x a week. Carter loves it and Trina thinks she will too. Its nice because the classes are all at the same time, right next door to each other. And they are near Bradys office, so I drop them off, he picks them up on his way home. What more could you ask for? Oh ya, the charter school pays for it!!! :)
Tonight we will be decorating the Christmas Tree, it was supposed to happen last night, but as none of the lights worked we spent the entire evening using wire clippers, snipping off the 2 million wire-ties attached to our pre-lit tree. So hopefully tonight, as tomorrow I have a vinyl party, Thursday an open house, Friday we have a Christmas Party and Brady is DJ'ing, so I guess worse case if not tonight, the Saturday.
So those are my rambling thoughts, as I multi-task between dinner, weeding vinyl, fb and blogging!
Life is good here in Cali, though it is getting chilly. Love you all
The kids are good. We have started volume 1 of Beyond 5 in a Row and they are really enjoying it. Carter is in rock climbing, Tys in MMA, and Thursday Katrina will join Carter in rock climbing. Its a kids club that meets for 2 hours 2x a week. Carter loves it and Trina thinks she will too. Its nice because the classes are all at the same time, right next door to each other. And they are near Bradys office, so I drop them off, he picks them up on his way home. What more could you ask for? Oh ya, the charter school pays for it!!! :)
Tonight we will be decorating the Christmas Tree, it was supposed to happen last night, but as none of the lights worked we spent the entire evening using wire clippers, snipping off the 2 million wire-ties attached to our pre-lit tree. So hopefully tonight, as tomorrow I have a vinyl party, Thursday an open house, Friday we have a Christmas Party and Brady is DJ'ing, so I guess worse case if not tonight, the Saturday.
So those are my rambling thoughts, as I multi-task between dinner, weeding vinyl, fb and blogging!
Life is good here in Cali, though it is getting chilly. Love you all
Friday, November 26, 2010
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
We got back from our mini vacation last night and we all struggled to get up this morning. Even Brady was late for work. My friend stopped by to bring back Frodo, we had an oven repair guy coming sometime between 8 and noon, and I was frantically trying to get the kids going.
"It's cold!!" "I'm tired" "Theres nothing I want for breakfast," were a few complaints being yelled around the house this morning, while I tried to get breakfast done, and chores accomplished. I sat in the living room, visiting with my friend, yelling at the children to get busy and finish their chores or there would be no pumpkin patch this afternoon. She asked me if I've considered just sending them to school- "this looks like a lot of work." I laughed and said, "Na." But in my heart I was thinking "YES, YES, YES!!!!"
After she left and the repair guy finished with his estimate, I pulled the kids into the living room and told them if they don't get this figured out they are all going back to school!!!! And I meant it. I laid down the law, laid out a new updated schedule of our day, and ordered them all to start school. Then I went to my computer, and found Tammys blog. WOW, did I need that today!!! You not them. Inspire not require. What am I doing? Time to pull the book back out and get busy inspiring. I think part of my frustration comes from the fact that we are meeting with our ES and supposed to turn in a few samples of what we have done this month.
What does she mean? We haven't done anything this month. We have no math pages, book reports or science projects. But this isn't true. I just need to look deeper. Tyler has read 2 books, Katrina is studying Hamlet in her Shakespeare class and Carter has started an ant farm. This needs to be part of my "You not them." I can take pictures of these things, take notes and make copies. They dont need to do anything different. (except maybe their chores a little quicker with a lot less complaining.)
They are learning, even if its not through textbooks and worksheets.
So today is a new day, time to "Inspire not require."
"It's cold!!" "I'm tired" "Theres nothing I want for breakfast," were a few complaints being yelled around the house this morning, while I tried to get breakfast done, and chores accomplished. I sat in the living room, visiting with my friend, yelling at the children to get busy and finish their chores or there would be no pumpkin patch this afternoon. She asked me if I've considered just sending them to school- "this looks like a lot of work." I laughed and said, "Na." But in my heart I was thinking "YES, YES, YES!!!!"
After she left and the repair guy finished with his estimate, I pulled the kids into the living room and told them if they don't get this figured out they are all going back to school!!!! And I meant it. I laid down the law, laid out a new updated schedule of our day, and ordered them all to start school. Then I went to my computer, and found Tammys blog. WOW, did I need that today!!! You not them. Inspire not require. What am I doing? Time to pull the book back out and get busy inspiring. I think part of my frustration comes from the fact that we are meeting with our ES and supposed to turn in a few samples of what we have done this month.
What does she mean? We haven't done anything this month. We have no math pages, book reports or science projects. But this isn't true. I just need to look deeper. Tyler has read 2 books, Katrina is studying Hamlet in her Shakespeare class and Carter has started an ant farm. This needs to be part of my "You not them." I can take pictures of these things, take notes and make copies. They dont need to do anything different. (except maybe their chores a little quicker with a lot less complaining.)
They are learning, even if its not through textbooks and worksheets.
So today is a new day, time to "Inspire not require."
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
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