It is finally Friday!

This has been a very difficult week for us me. Everything has been trying my patience and honestly I’m glad tomorrow is Saturday. The only thing scheduled is baseball at ten. All week I have been absent minded and nerved. I either have the paper and not the pencil or have the pencil and not the paper.  I am looking forward to next week though. There will not be baseball games and only a few practices. I enjoy the excitement I see on their faces when they play ball and meet with old and new friends. I enjoy the nachos and cheese, Italian ice, sunflower seeds and Gatorade. And even though I feel totally guilty about it, I need a small break. Baseball hit us full throttle and my body wasn’t ready.

Of course, we still had good points to the week such as all the boys has won at least one game, slow-cooker meals have saved me time, we have three caterpillars that have built a cocoon in our bug habitat and my new washing machine is great awesome and it deep steams.

Small Glance at the boys week…

• Dylan decided to start reading The Magic Tree House books and this week started his second book. He read “Summer of the Sea Serpent” first and now he has started back at number one, “Dinosaurs Before Dark”.
• T.J. has found a new collection of books he enjoys, Mercer Mayer’s Little Critter, and has read three this week. His reading skills have really kicked in high gear. I was getting worried despite everyone telling me it was normal and he just needed time.
• Tommy also found “Biscuit” books and has read two this week. Math is his stronger points. He has been practicing skip counting and beginning multiplication.
• Wesley has read a couple random books but mostly he sticks to his Hooked On Phonics program. He mostly checks books out of the library from the adult side. He fell asleep watching a documentary movie about Abraham Lincoln. He loves The History Channel and Discovery.

Easy. Simple. Fun

It seems each month I look for easier crafts and projects to complete. This happened last year too! We take our time during the beginning of the year and then as time goes on we start to rush especially now with so many lessons left to do before this school year is over. Another part is because baseball has started back and every evening we are at the ball park. I'm not complaining about that but it leaves little time to get all the chores, shopping and school lessons done during the day. Recently we have been trying on hand in paper mache and although it is a lot of fun, even for me, it is time consuming. Our first project was a globe of Earth to go along with our study of the continents. This project took us over a week to complete.
For Our St. Patrick's Day craft I decided to do something simple. We colored rainbows and glued a cloud on one end of the rainbow and a pot of gold on the other. Easy. Simple. Fun.

A very busy day!

This week has went by very fast and it's probably because we had too much to do. My most memorable day of the was Wednesday. Let me tell you about it.  I already knew when awoke it was going to be a busy day. I had several things to take care because I had put them off for days. I knew we also had to get our school work done and go to baseball practice.

Everybody is up, breakfast is over and we are 30 minutes into getting dressed for the day. I am still yelling, "CLOTHES, SOCKS, SHOES." I count heads as we load up, 1,2,3,4  and off we go. First stop, insurance company. This stop went well. Our agent is complimenting on how well the boys are behaving. I was so proud. Next stop, DMV. The line was really long but I finally reached the woman handing out number tickets.  Lady: The form you filled out is out of date.  Me: Really?  Lady: Fill out this form, come back and then I will give you a number.

This was our first dilemma. Our first was when I had to get out of line because little square gum pieces were falling all over the floor.  Anyway, after filling out the correct form, getting a number and making it to a counter, she informs me that I am missing a form. My thoughts were, you have to be kidding me! The second place I went gave me the form and I have everything I need. Back at the DMV, I'm back at the counter and right when I was wishing this place was bigger, my 7-year-old, Dooley shouts: "Mom, I got hair on my privates now!" I just stared and blinked and stared and blinked. I didn't want the look of all those people in my mind so I forced my myself not to look around.  Well, I hope it is a very long time before I have to return to the DMV.  It is funny now but on that day, it was not.

It's Friday!

Well, it is the end of another school week. We have accomplished a lot this week and I'm pleased to actually get everything planned for the week completed.

Tomorrow is our first baseball practice of the year. We are super excited! I have missed being at the field everyday. Wesley will be on a team without any of his brothers this year. He is nervous about it but hasn't said he doesn't want to play. I was worried at first, I almost didn't want to tell him.lol He has always been so shy. I am proud of him because he has came a long way from around a year and a half ago when he would cover his face until we reached the car at wal-mart just because someone said hello.