Monday musings

Right now, it's 1:55 p.m. and all kids done with school except Sam who is finishing up his math. We also still have to do our Shakespeare. I really like this new book we are using. It's called How to Teach your children Shakespeare. Really user friendly and written in small enough pieces that it's very manageable. I look forward to this subject every day with the kids.

This past weekend, was very nice. On Friday, we were able to make it to Latin Mass (which we are trying to do more at least on Fridays) and then Scott took Josie and Thomas to play at Tech. I took Sam with me grocery shopping while Abbey babysat the two little girls. Also on Friday am. I took A and G to specialist dr. G. diagnosed with Schinzel Gidean syndrome. So now she has dual diagnosis of Schinzel Gidean syndrom and cerebral palsey. G. keeping attention said to be a challenge for us. He asked us to let him know when if we felt we needed his help as far as intervening maybe with meds. We are definitely  not at that point. She is very manageabe right now. and for the most part very amiable. We will see what develops. Now and always she is our beautiful number six :-) Also good Friday, we met my mom for big pizza lunch and then saw her place, took beautiful walk around her neighborhood, good afternoon.

On Saturday, a friend called early. Her kids came over and we went house decor shopping, something I never do. but seeing as how we have purchased these couches and they 're on their way, I am very motivated to the room painted and "decorated" or at least pulled together. So we hit at least four stores, Burlington, Garden Ridge, Hobby Lobby and Michaels before finally hitting a Goodwill at the end. I think we're going with a old Europe, travel, theme, still need to settle on a fireplace color and keep looking for a central mantle piece. By the way, found a really good site to help with decorating. It's called Houzz and is my new favorite playaround site.

Also on Sat. night, Scott and I were able to go out for a while. Went to Chiles for dinner, yum and then browsed at Barnes and Noble, I had fun showing him the tv series selection. We're such 80s kids and right now our family (not having cable) is in a real I Love Lucy kick. She is really hilarious, We then drove the back street way. Lotsa cornfields, starry skies, I love it.

On Sunday, busy day, Scott and Sam went to mass early at Little Flower and then headed to Bloomington for game, Sam go in trouble for defending a fellow player, tough call, but we've had good talk with him and I think he' slearned many lessons. Then I took the rest to Latin and then got pop for youth group meeting kick off. Then dropped Thomas for his game. Scott returned and covered that game. Later I took A and her friend to youth group kickoff. So happy she has this opportunity and we love our RE coordinator.

This week, kickball game tonight and then more fb practice (Thomas has hurt arm right now) and we are determined to tackle the family room painting job. Also need to go up to our bank and pay the mortgage. Great news, last week I was able to plant the blueberry bushes (next spring, our focus will be the chickens, strawberries and getting an apple tree or two in the ground:) Oh yeah and more school :-)

Speaking of school, right now in:
History, studying Bacon's Rebellion and founding of Pittsburgh and Georgia, more European colonization and fighting, French Indiana War
Latin, more review,
Spelling, just restarted
Science, plants, and seeds
Bible, book of Ruth
Shakespeare, memorizing from Midsummer
Geo, reviewing North Africa

On my needles, still the old shale scarf:-)
In the kitchen, chili, sour cream pancakes,
On the bookshelf, Rise to Rebellion, maybe Chesterton, maybe Austen, just ordered lotsa treehouse and fall camping and ghost story books from library
Also planning for bdays, mine, Lucy and Abbey :-)

Our Labor Day


..... was very nice, the girls went with grandparents down to the lake and so we were down to four. The dean took kids to football game on Friday, while Six and I went to Lowes and bought discounted blueberry bushes. I still need to get them in, but I'm really hoping we get some good blueberries off them. On Saturday, we started our big no carb diet. The dean is a former wrestler so he's used to doing this but I've never done this before so we'll see. I hope it helps us both feel better and have more energy. Saturday night more relaxing and then Sunday we went to Mass. I kept Six in back and let the dean and the boys and Five have to some peace in the pew :-) Sunday afternoon I took Two to Half Price books for a little browsing. Monday, Two went to movies with friends and the dean and I rearranged family room for winter. I like our layout, we get to  enjoy the fireplace and every seat has a nice "vista" so to speak as we have really nice surround windows in our family room. Then Monday afternoon I went Labor Day furniture shopping. We ordered a living room set. which we really needed. Girls home and the dean went to sign for it.

This week, in the schoolroom, chugging through math, history, biology, hope to start Latin next week.

on the field, lotsa kickball and football.

In the kitchen , our new diet food, spinach salad, kebabs, almonds, fruit, lotsa hard boiled eggs and water .... this is hard :0( I love my carbs)

Around the house, I'm still organizing, organizing, organizing. I m always so inspired when I read other people's blogs to see they are always organizing too. It really can be a never ending process with the family growing and changing but I have to remember to stop and have fun too :-)

That's about it for now ....