Things that made this day great!Josiah and Jamin both had the day off work! YES.
Stacia woke me up at 4:30 a.m. and so I had lots of quiet morning hours once I got her to sleep.
Mike passed another ACSC test. (I never remember what that means but it is a class he has to take as a Major. If you are lucky you get to go spend a year in AL and take it in residence. If not, you get to run a Protestant Program or deploy while you do it correspondence. ::snort::)
We are making real progress in school. I'll confess I fell asleep reading "Famous Men of Rome" to Arielle and Nolan - but Arielle kept on and they got it done. I am seriously thinking of letting Arielle go on on her own and Nolan and I dropping back to Lower Grammar books which look much more interesting on Rome than this Famous Man book. Nolan is in 3rd grade and we would have been doing Lower Grammar all along if he didn't have a sister a couple of years older.
Josiah drove Nolan, Zander, Stacia and I around town picking up supplies for our newest project...so photos below.
I received an email that my application as a homeschool teacher for the Teacher's Toolbox at Smilebox was accepted.....scan down to the first post with layouts and you'll find the link. I just put G Homeschool for name of school, my personal email, my address....anyway - they KNOW I homeschool and still let me have it. I'm glad that I don't have to make my decision between them or new software in the next two weeks now. LOL
We had dinner TOGETHER - grilled steak, salads, huge fruit selection, corn on the cob, tortiallas..... yum.
Jamin and Jared had an end of the year pool party at the ministry they volunteer for.
I finished 10 more scrapbook pages....making 52 since Friday. I don't think I'll get any more done tonight because I need to go to BED.
Funnies from the day:
*I ran into Albertsons as they had milk on sale. They also had peaches, cantaloupe and grapes on sale. I picked some up. I thought I'd help the checkers by doing the self check out......the machine squawked and insisted I get assistance after EACH of the 8 gal of milk.
*While out shopping a "man in a purple shirt" smiled and talked to Stacia. On the way to the parking lot she said, "That man in the purple shirt smiled to me."
"Yes, Stacia."
"Does that man LUF me?"
"No, Stacia, not every stranger that smiles at you loves you."
Projects of the Day:
Our United order is on. I've still not been able to go back and put my order in.....but I've been fielding questions.
THIS......I was going to wait until it was up and we had before and after shots...but this entry needs some photos.
Early this a.m. Jamin and Josiah took down the trampoline. I'm not sure why ZANDER is in the photo.
Finally on the North side of town we found a store that wasn't sold out....
Of THIS! It wasn't the size I wanted (it's bigger) but it was the only metal framed one we could find.
Which led to THIS...
and an AMAZING moment when I looked up and realized I have grown men for sons...and they were all pitching in for this big job.....leveling our sloping yard which is more unlevel than we thought. LOL
THIS little boy wants desperately to help the other G boys.....he found a shovel left in the garage, which he doesn't seem too impressed with....but....
he dug in!
Tool time
Zander waited ALL DAY for the pool....but we are still leveling....maybe tomorrow.
I really felt bad that this project mushroomed into such a big one. I think, even Mike, was surprised that we had to do so much digging. Poor Mike came right home from work and worked until he broke for dinner and then worked until after 9 p.m. What a hero.
