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Well, I am fixing to go to bed. Been a long day today--got woke up early this morning by dh who was calling to tell me they were getting underway and he just HAD to hear my voice before he lost his connection for 4-6 days. Awweee...innit he just precious?? Well, I also spoke to him last night for a few minutes too...and I gotta tell you I am more than a little apprehensive at what our phone bill will total next month lol our cell phones charge us a flat $3 per day we called plus $1 per MINUTE for every minute we talked. I better get to work on some websites so I can pay for the upcoming phone bill eh? Well, you know we did good...but time does kinda slip away and before you know it you've spent $15 on one little call. Errgh. We should get an allowance for that lol
We've been fully immersed in "school" round here which has made things a little more hectic than our summer months--then next week we'll be adding full time scouts with both the girls and B. EEK! We're gonna be BUSY no doubt. Not that we aren't already lol but shoot how can you NOT love these great groups??
Meatloaf the other night turned out yummy to our tummies which was good since...shhhhh...that was the first time I had made it without dh's supervision. I think I did pretty good. Of course, the kids definately prefered our dinner tonight which was fiori pasta with sauce...fiori--pronounced "fee-or-ee"--means "flowers" in Italian. See, even dinner is an educational experience (and so is reading my journal huh?)
You know, I have been on a roll around the house lately and everything is falling into place and the kids are really taking care of their stuff and I gotta tell you there were a few times in the last day or so that I found myself standing in the middle of a room like some dumbstruck fool thinking "what is it I should be doing right now?" and found myself completely amazed when I could answer...not a thing. GOOD FEELING there I tell ya. Of course, that is a very TEMPORARY feeling as dishes get dirtied three times a day (sometimes six or more!) here at home, laundry is an every growing beast of gargantuan proportions, and there is hardly a single hour that passes without a spill of one sort or another--and if it's not a spill then it's our anorexic spazcat puking up the food she just gobbled down because someone had the audacity to walk past her food bowl. Weird cat. At any rate...speaking of cats--I bought a new litter pan. Dh has been gone too much lately for me to rely on him to clean it...even though it's decidedly HIS job...I clean kid poo...not kitty poo. Still...you can only let a litter pan go SO long before you simply HAVE to break down and do the nasty. When I went to the store the other night to get the kids the new Stitch movie (cute cute cute by the way--not as good as the first of course, but still cute) and I thought to myself...there has to be a better way...there just HAS to be a better way to clean a kitty pan than the stinky scoop method. I walked down the isle...and of course if I were a wealthy woman I certainly wouldn't be shopping at Walmart to begin with but rather would be going to buy one of those litter boxes like my parents spoiled kitties has that cleans ITSELF--since I don't have the money for that I was estatic when I found a litterpan that is just as cool with a little manual labor on the owners part. It comes in three sections, two pans and one sifter. You lift the sifter up...it sifts out all the icky stuff--you toss it out, take the sifter lay it in the 2nd pan and pour the clean litter into it and store the old pan on the bottom...and round and round she goes! Cool huh? So yah, just so you know I am bragging about this now but the truth is I haven't USED it yet so we'll see tomorrow how "cool" it is.
I haven't talked much about the children so let me do a little here...
One of B's favorite words right now is a grunt. It's not a word...or a moan...or a scream but somewhere in between. I can sense the approaching adolescent puberty anti-everything young man already and frankly I am wondering if I shouldn't go ahead and ground him for the first few years of his oncoming manhood. Okay okay, I'm prepared really. I bought a book at the Christian bookstore for him. Haven't given it to him yet as I want to read it and dh will want to also before I give it to him. I read a good portion of it in the bookstore though and HAD to get it. It talks about everything except for ~that~...mostly the changes his body will go through between now and when he's 16. It discusses all of the really scary and embarrassing things that boys are too ERGH to ask about...and the thing I loved so far about it? Every answer is EXACTLY what I would say to him if we were talking about it. Seriously. So far every answer is totally on key to my feelings and how I want him to think of his body and the changes it will be going through. I haven't finished it yet but I think it will be good for him and us. I told him I bought it though and he was actually excited. Said he wanted to read more about what was going to be happening to him. I explained that the book was NOT a replacement for his Dad and I...but that I understood and that his Dad did too that *some* things are kinda embarrassing to talk about ESPECIALLY with your parents--especially MOM, and that this book talks about all of those really kind of embarrassing things--and that the book was meant to give him the platform for his questions. He was SO "okay" with the talk we had about all of it and you know, he said he was glad his Dad was so easy to talk to. Maybe puberty won't be such a big thing after all.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
In other news he is drawing tons lately and is REALLY talented. I'm going to scan some of his pictures and put them in an online portfolio so ya'll can see them. He is reading "The Magician's Nephew" by C.S. Lewis right now...and has also been working with me in the kitchen more--says he wants to cook like his Dad. So far he's perfected the grilled cheese sandwich. He's excited for Scouts to start next week and is already counting on selling the most popcorn again this year. I'm sure dh will be really excited too...haha
R has been learning her phonics and can sound out a ton of three letter words already. I suspect that within the next month or so she will be able to read some easy readers. She is like B--totally smart and absolutely EAGER to learn. She is my big motivation every single morning the first thing she says (after asking for strawberry milk) is what time we are starting our school work lol She is still catching anything that she can and she can now tell all of the lizards in our backyard she has already caught because they are all missing their tails lol she did catch a walking stick the other day which we took a picture of...it was so cool. She wants to do a page on here where she can show all the pictures of things she catches so that will be one of her upcoming projects. She is BEYOND excited about girl scouts and goes to her first meeting as a Brownie on Tuesday. Oh and she DID finally lose that stubborn tooth!!! It was SO loose that she was just sitting there and it literally fell out. No blood, nothing...it just fell right out lol
C has been doing alot of drawing, coloring, cutting, painting and whatnot while we are doing lessons. She is excited to be doing "school" but has a pretty low threshold for frustration which is why she has a total open door to go in and out of the lessons at any time. I have to admit though that she has done better than I thought she would so far. We also had a HUGE breakthrough the other day. We were out at the Christian bookstore and she had a little fit...I told her she had to sit down for 5 minutes and can I just tell you I braced myself for the storm...and it never came. She went and sat down. Just sat there. Seriously. If I hadn't of known better I might have wondered if someone had traded her with some other really docile and understanding little girl. I started timing and the only thing she asked me was about 3 minutes in how much longer. I told her 2 minutes and so she sat and waited and then when the time was up she told me she was sorry and was great the rest of the time. Of course...later that evening she spent the majority of her time in her room for various infractions lol but hey, I never look a gift horse in the mouth and progress is PROGRESS no matter how small it might seem at the time. I made a big point of telling her how awesome that was. She has also been a BIG helper around the house and wants everything to be her "job"...as of right now she is the official pillow straightener for the couch pillows, the put up the video game controller girl, and the change out the toilet paper when it's out chick. Woe unto you if you happen to do ANY of these three things while she is present as it lauches her into a long drawn out discussion about how that is HER job. Maybe labeling it as a discussion is misleading. It's more of a one-way conversation where you find yourself apologizing for having the audacity of putting a fresh roll of tp on the roll. Eh...I'm sure this is a VERY fleeting thing and in a matter of years I won't be able to offer her enough money to do the same. But really I am pretty blessed, all three of the kids actually LIKE cleaning...and I have let me "pefect home" standards slide a bit so that they can REALLY help me. So, B has been vacuuming the floors, R & C dust and clean the table, B does windex on all of the glass surfaces and the tv and mirrors, R & C also help me with the floor when I sweep and mop. They all literally fight over who gets to be the kitchen helper when I make dinner or empty the dishwasher--so we have resorted to giving them days of the week. Trust me, I know it's all temporary. But it's nice to think they'll be this enthusiastic well into their teenage years. Hehe...a girl can dream right?
Oh and the only other news to pass is the kids were itching for me to measure them on our chart again and I was like why? We JUST did it on the 8th of this month. Well, would you know that in just 20 days all three kids had grown at least 1/2 inch and C has grown 3/4 of an inch!!! I was floored. I always use the same method and whatnot so I know that it wasn't a mistake. Of course B says that he grew because he turned 10. They are growing, I'm shrinking and greying and whatnot so I suspect that they will surpass me in a matter of time and then the "short" jokes will start. I know this because I have a short Mom...(love you Mom!) and I've seen the progress.
So at any rate, it's uber late here and I am off to bed. I hope you are all blessed and well.
OXOX
~A
PS there are so many wonderful praise reports to share about family and whatnot, and I just want you all to know how thankful I am for you and I am so glad that God has been working in so many lives. Oh, and God has helped me also...He reminded me that it was "just a ring" and that I would really survive the loss of my diamond. I'm pretty sure He is right =o)
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