Peanut Butter

THE PEANUT SAT ON A RAILROAD TRACK,

HIS HEART WAS ALL A-FLUTTER.
ALONG CAME THE CHOO-CHOO TRAIN,
AHHHHHHHHHH!
PEA-NUT BUTTER!

Old stuff

Here's an journal entry I did a few months ago, I thought I would share it on here, just because I like to share what my life is like during the school months. Summer is a little different with going to play-dates and Story time @ the library. Since I cant come up with any thing juicy to share here's something from my Homeschool Mommy journal. :)





Yes it is a job, the pay stinks and the hours are intense, but its the most rewarding job there is!

You see I wake up at about 3:am to nurse a crying four month old and kiss a hubby who has just come home from working third shift,
after unattractively falling back asleep with baby still attached, I wake up again at 7:am to welcome babysitting children sing "Good Morning Beautiful girls" to the messy headed grumpy faced teenager wanna be’s, they actually are five and three yr old beauties who "love" to be awoken!

As Dear Hubby rushes off to his 9:am class we get started on a day full of craft paint, glue, scissors, crayons, rocks, bubbles, string, flour, eggs, goldfish crackers, and anything else mommies crazy imagination can cook up! Mommy gets much inspiration from wonderful places like Five in a Row, Jumbo Alphabet book, the Iron Rod, and other noteworthy sources.

By noon were all crafted "funned" out, and sit down either outside or in to a lesiurley lunch of pb&j or what ever mommy has created!

We then take turns doing workbooks and one on one reading while the others build cities of blocks and use stickers to decor the walls.

Playing outside is fundemental in mommies sanity control! Needless to say on rainy days Mommy has to hide in the bathroom for a few minutes.

Nap time is loved, ah , I mean accomplished by those in need of it, Mommy exempted.
After which to earn a little computer time all kiddos do their chores!
Little do they realize that the computer time they love they are just doing more school work!
Muahahahaha, evil Mommy laugh!

By this time Dear Hubby has rejoined us only to go get some much needed sleep, and babysitting kids go home.

Dinner together is a must other wise, our world will fall down!
After cleaning up and playing with Daddy for a bit we pray together, kiss Daddy goodbye for the night, and ride off to dream land, where Mommy gets foot massages and the kitchen is always clean.

Sure there are days when our little world is turned upside down but that’s what makes this job exciting.

Did I say the pay stank? Well scratch that, the four month baby boy just learned to give kisses, the three year old just learned to write her name, and the five year old just told everyone at dance class that her Mommy was the best teacher ever.

The pay is awesome.

Book Fair 2010

As you can tell we love to read! Its a staple in our lives we cant do without. So when we hear that there is a book fair happening where you get free books and get to play games we are so there baby! To save some blogging time I'm just going to describe quickly a little of the fun, the girls and Aunt Lissa and cousin Abbie were all turned into princess's. I sacrificed myself for the sake of holding Timmy and was turned into a prince. (I make a mighty fine one if i do say so myself!)
Then to keep in with the trends the children's faces were painted to reflect personalities, Mae a heart, Liza and Abbie cats, Timmy slept through the event.
There was much excitement when fishes were caught with magnets, and when we got to create our own publications with cut out pictures and glue.
A very tiring but fun day, on a personal note, I'm really glad my sister was willing to give up a Sat. to spend w/ and my loud kids! LOL!

Teddy Bear Picnic!

As part of our school curriculum we pick one book to read once a day every day for five days then we do a related craft, science experiment, or activity. (Five in a Row by Jane Claire Lambert) Last week we read Corduroy. To end the week we kicked off with a teddy bear picnic. It was a lot of fun and the kids had a blast pulling out every bear in the house, even Mommy and Daddies old bears.

Mae's 5th birthday!

We didn't do much this year, no friends over or anything, but we managed to have a great time with family and lots of one on one time. We started out with our yearly tradition of B-Day pancakes and singing!






She got her ears pierced and that was a big deal, I tell you what, it was like coaxing a frog into the mouth of a crocodile getting her to sit down in the chair. But she'd been begging us to to it for months and I wasn't going to let her turn back. Once it was all over she was ecstatic and shows them off to everyone. (Pink Butterflies.)







She then got a Easy Bake Oven from her G-ma and just LOVES to cook things for all the people (men) in her life! I think she has discovered early, that teenage uncles will eat just about anything, and the way to Daddy's heart is through his stomach. Her pappy was assigned the snack for F.H.E. and when Mae brought her cakes and he didn't have to lift a finger, and when she fed him, he thought she was better than sliced bread!










Her Aunt Lissa took her to the planetarium, just the two of them and that was a special treat. I've never even been there and hearing it from a five year old's point of view is great lol!

But the best thing in my eyes was that it just so happened that her Dance class scheduled their recital pictures to be taken that night. So her dance pics were taken on her B-Day, she thought they did that just for her lol! I'll have to post those when I get them though.