Speed

Kelly - is it loading quicker? I took off tons of side bar items...and the scrolling verse at the bottom. It loads quick for me. ::snort:: Let me know if you notice a change in speed at all.

Speaking of speed - Jamin moves incredibly fast. He always has. The joke in our small town when he was a toddler is that he never learned how to walk. He began to RUN immediately! He races around here ALL the time.....and evidently he does the same at work. He's been asked twice now if he's on crack - two different occassions. I keep telling him to take a deep breath...this boy is going to RUN to meet his destiny.

Another Monday

I'm so surprised at how much I accomplished today!

I worked out.

I read another 12 pages in "The Bible in 90 Days".

We got school done. We really got school done. The kids all seemed interested in the books we were reading on Ancient China. We only have one week on this area - I think we'll stretch it a bit. We shall see.

We went to speech. Nolan is doing so well.....in fact his READING has sky rocketed. I'm excited. He's a bit "behind" because we focused solely on his speech for his K and 1st grade years. I was surprised that that 3 week break seemed to accelerate his reading! ::snort::

I made more copies for tomorrow night. I did some more work on study.

Tonight was to be our first United co-op. The truck didn't show up. It will come in the morning. I have heard this before about United. TCW/Shop Natural always had the driver call us the day before and give us an appt. say 5:15 p.m. But we'll adjust.
I even cleaned house and did 5 loads of laundry.
Josiah started his new semester. He has two new profs. Instead of 3 long days of classes; he'll be taking 5 shorter days. His plan is to be able to study a couple of hours before work each day at the campus library...rather than studying after work until 1 a.m. (and um...the rumor is we're a bit noisey around here).
Nothing earth shattering, but I feel like I'm starting to get a handle on the new schedule.

Weekends come and Weekends go....

Saturday - Mike went to the office to prep for two services, children's church and Sunday School. I worked on lesson plans. I also put a bunch of 2007 photos on the card for our digital frame. I need to find a few missing months and it will be good to for a time. I'm not sure how often I'll update. I went with a year this time so that I have photos of the girls on it too.

Saturday night our deployed chaplain came home! It was fun to be at the airport to welcome him home.

Today - well Mike was at the chapel from 9:00 - 7:30. I was supposed to be with him but we had a complication. Josiah had a meeting that began at 1:00 p.m. and so I needed to be home with the children. I took advantage of the recaptured afternoon to work on worksheets and such for our Bible Study. I had just clicked print on the lessons when Mike and Jared walked in. What a good feeling.

I got to talk to Krista today. I talked to Bre yesterday. It's been a good weekend!

Friday

I was up bright and early and at the lab by 7:30. This is all in prep for my big yearly check up on the upcoming Wed.

I hurried to HEB after this to pick up produce. I was there early enough to check for various items I've not been able to find since we quit receiving orders from Shop Natural. Julie called to say that I win the prize for being organized United Group Coordinator. ::snort:: She also told me there is a FULL catalog we can order from and what we had was a partial form. That's nice to hear. Our first group order is in and will arrive sometime on Monday.

Mike and I went to lunch.

Last night was our monthly PWOC project night. I did NOT take pictures (some are shy). I finished two of the three aprons that Krista and I had cut out. I really like one of them a lot. I plan to go buy "something" to stitch around the ties because I don't like the fringe look and I wasn't about to pin all those tiny seams under. LOL

I worked on worksheets for next week's Bible Study workshop session.

Thursday....

I tried to mail 5 packages today. I couldn't find the items that were to go in 3 of the packages. THIS is why I don't make it a practice to shop early. I get burned every time. I'll have to go out and buy replacement gifts for these packages.

We did school.

I made a lot of turkey broth from the leavings of last night's turkey. It's cooling.

I took down all the Christmas decor.

I tried to get lab work done this afternoon but was told I need to fast for some of it - so will try to get it done EARLY tomorrow...before I have to pick up produce.

Zander told me "he's sorry it has to end like this but he's leaving me to go live with his lover in WA." ::snort::

My back is aching from all the climbing and lifting to get decorations switched out. Mike will be thrilled when he gets home from work and sees the huge pile of boxes that need to go to the attic before produce co-op in the a.m. ::snort::

I'm going to go take a nice HOT shower....or maybe a bath haven't done that in over 2 years....or maybe I'll just climb into bed. Christmas is a lot of work. ::snort::

Where's the BLOG?

It's been three days and I love that a few of my faithful readers WANT me to post every day. ::snort::

Nothing is wrong. I am simply SWAMPED trying to get back into the routine of Bible Studies, Friendships, SCHOOL etc, after the tremendous holidays and wonderful weeks of family fun.

Mike and I realized when the girls were home that we really MISSED the fun family nights we used to have. With the girls gone, Josiah and Jamin working many nights, and Tues and Thurs nights being filled, it's become far too easy to SLIIIIIDDDE into a routine that involves the little's amusing themselves, Jared reading, Mike playing computer games and me blogging. Something had to change. We are trying to stay off the computers from dinner - 9:00 p.m. We've had GREAT evenings of games and fun. Tonight we played Pictionary - Jamin was home from work too! WONDERFUL.

In the a.m.'s I am determined to get back into a routine of in-depth Bible Study and so I've been using that two hour time block for study and exercise. No computer time there. Though I have lots of great insights to share when I have time. ::snort::

ADD to the above the fact that I had to get our first co-op order from United Foods compiled and figure out how to work a spread sheet (still learning - Poor Julie), a produce co-op order, and the aforementioned (or belowmentioned depending how you read) workshops....well....I made a vow not to get on the computer until a few jobs were done.

OK - I rashly said "no computer until I'm caught up" but I'm seeing now that that is NOT likely to happen until I'm 98 and no longer care about being caught up.

In the past few days I've loved the changes that are occuring. I've also missed blogging...and have realized that the blog is for family and friends...therefore when computer time is short, I'll do email and try to at least post a photo or two...because I know that family enjoy seeing them.

The last bit of news for the day is that Mike checked the assignment listings and found only ONE position listed this summer for his rank. In Korea. ONE. I suspect it is doubtful that we'll be moving this summer. I went ahead and ordered a beef and we are looking at a freezer too. ::snort::

You know it's been a Rough DAY.....

When the above are the only photos you have to show from your day. Dinner.....Jared attempts to convince Stacia that lemons are not as good to eat as clementines.