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Mother's Day!

I can't believe that it is Mother's Day again already!! I have a "Mother's Day Tea" in Noah's class this afternoon at 1:00. He was so excited and picked out the cutest sweater and pants to wear to school today. *Teacher asked the kids to dress nice* It was so cute!! Cayleb is working though his list of stuff for school today. I just made a list because it was all things he could do without me being right there, so when he finishes, he finishes..... it's all up to him today. So far he seems to be moving along slowly but surely. Charity Ann is playing in there with him right now. And Sarah Rose is in here digging though Daddy's basket of stuff *not so good*. I see a Sharpie! Jason is home today, that's normal, he works' 4-10's. He is out right now, though, taking his grinder to be repaired and running a few errands for me :) He will be home soon though, and I think he is planning on working out in the yard since we won't be home to work on it tomorrow.... He has also made a deal with a guy from work to trade a few of our chickens for a 50# bag of grass seed. :( Not too happy about parting with my chickens, but we need the grass seed :) This weekend looks pretty fun so far, Saturday is really busy, but Sunday should be lower key. Church and then just some quiet time at home :) Maybe I'll get the kids to make dinner! J/K!!! TTFN And I hope everyone has a GREAT MOTHER'S DAY!!!

Not much happening..

today, that is. Cayleb is feeling better, so we are trying to catch up on some of the work that we missed this week.....
I have a dentist appt. this afternoon, yucky!!! No wait, Yipee!! Yeah, right! :( I have only left a regularly scheduled cleaning at a dentist like twice in my life without needing to come back for repairs! But here's hoping!
I need to go find a chiropractor because I have a pinched nerve in my back that has really been bothering me....
And Jason's Grandpa is having his 80th birthday next month and everyone is gathering for a "family reunion" of sorts, and we can't be there cause it's too stinking expensive to drive, and not much cheaper to fly. So, I totally feel like leftovers today. And I know that Jason has to be a little bummed about it too, but he has a better outlook about things sometimes and I don't think that he is letting it get him down. He's a good guy, you know. I love him so much that I can hardly contain it sometimes. We have really been enjoying our "dates" each Saturday and it really has seemed to help bring back our sense of humor and vibrance :) I think that we both live through each week looking forward to our date :) This week we don't meet because there is a HUGE concert happening at the church aka: no room for the kids to hang out while we are out on a date! So we, actually I, volunteered Jason to help a friend build his fence. The girls will get to hang out all day Saturday at their house with the kids (numbering 6) and we have a soccer game to go to sometime before lunch. So Saturday looks like fun :) Anywho, I need to go for now, Cayleb needs to move on to Science :)

Epiphany

So, here it is, I have come to realize that Monday's (figuratively) stink for us, no matter what day they happen to land on! Yesterday was Monday for us, and as has been the norm, ended up stinking to High Heaven. I am not sure what to do about this problem I seem to be having with Cayleb's lack of enthusiasm, motivation and bad attitude..... Should I reward this by changing things up for Monday's, trying to make them more fun or something? I mean, none of us really LOVE Monday's right? But Most of us don't DREAD them either, more than normal anyways :). So...... Though I have reached my epiphany regarding the consistency of Monday Blues around here, I have also faced an equally depressing juncture, What the Heck am I supposed to do about Mondays!!

Considering...

yesterday, today has been very low-key. Cayleb hasn't been feeling well, but not bad enough to not do school. He keeps procrastinating, and sidetracking, though, so this is taking a lot longer than it needs to... I keep telling him that if he would just pay more attention to his math problems, for example, he wouldn't have to take the assessment 3 times to pass on 7 problems.... he knows them and can do them out loud with me no problem, but when it comes to writing things down, his brain just miscommunicates what it wants to see written on the paper or something... So anyways....

I really want to order our Konos, but can't yet... I have pondered the idea of saving some of the "$" whatever the amount is that is supposed to be sent out from the government to boost the economy whatever.... and putting it towards our school supplies for next year.... but then there are about 50 other things that that money needs to go towards! like bills! Yuck, how depressing!! Anywho....

It's overcast today, it was supposed to rain but it hasn't yet. Maybe Jason will get a little more done on the yard tonight. :)

I want to talk about something happy, K!! So Happy Happy Happy!!! Happy to everyone!!! Happy thoughts, Happy Prayers, Happy Dreams, Happy Days, Happy-whatever-the-heck-it-is-that-will-make-you-happy Happy!!

I pray that God will lead you in the path that He wants you to travel. I pray that He will keep you safe where ever that path leads you. I pray that He uses you to reach a brother or sister in need. I pray that you will seek His guidance in all you do. I pray that He will Bless your family and provide you with everything you need. -Amen

Fun Fun Fun....

Today has been pretty busy, I went and picked up the Wyckoff Boys (3 boys) to come and play with my munchkins. They have been playing very well together. We went swimming and just got back a little while ago, they had a blast. And now most of the kids are outside playing!! Thank Goodness for Sunshine!! Tomorrow, I hear, isn't going to look so pretty, though! But I did see in the fortcast for May 16th that it's going to hit 70??!! We'll just have to wait and see on that one! I'm gonna take the boys back home tonight after their Mom gets home from work :)

I am hoping that school will fly by this week so that Cayleb and I can keep working on the yard after school. I have gotten quite a bit done, but we still have lots to do!! Mary-Anne's track came in today, so she won't be a gimp anymore (in case anyone cares to know, Mary-Anne is our excavator, she reminds me of Mary-Anne the steam shovel from the book Mike Mulligan and Mary-Anne, at least I think that's what its called.... not sure at the moment, my brain's a little overstimulated!!) I'll try to post a pic. of Daddy or Cayleb working with her sometime :) They both have so much fun!!

Today, I could have taken a picture for advertisement of the airplane teeter-totter that we got from costco. I have 7 Kids here today and every single one of them was on it!! Yes, it seats 7!! I need to ask them to pose for me!! Okay, so I bribed them with candy! Here it is!!

We have also been working on the yard, so here are some pics of the process....
-First is the Western view from out our back door

-Then a Southern view out the back door and

-Last a Eastern view out our back door so imagine looking slowly from your right to your left and that's pretty much a panoramic view....

Okay, so we've decided, I think?!

Okay, so we've decided to go with the Swing Set from Costco. Looks pretty cool, right? My one condition, well actually two is that we HAVE to add monkey bars!!! And we are going to add a Stage 3 to our original plan that includes a zip line of some sort. I'll try to take some pictures to show you where we are thinking of putting the zip line..... hint-hint:we have a huge hill off the back of the house with a valley and another hill on the other side.... So, I think that I am excited!
Phase I: Airplane Teeter-totter, picking this up this weekend from Costco (I have an earlier post with a cool pic of this)
Phase II: Swing set with added Monkey Bars, too come soon after grass is planted.
Phase III: Zip Line!! Yipee!!!