Here are a couple of photos from the dedication ceremony today. It was really nice - although a little confusing because we thought both pastors would be attending. It worked out just fine.

We had my mom and my sister there, my great-nephew, one of my foster brothers from growing up, plus Bobby and Hannah's dad ended up coming, along with HIS dad and step-mother... and a friend of the family from years ago came too! Very nice.

Well, not much to do but accept it. It's NOT January. It can't be. I know I keep ranting - but it's WARM! Maryland should not be 60 degrees in January. We looked. Our average is 38-39 - the lowest of the whole year! Oh well.

It's been a bit of a hectic week. We had an appraiser come out yesterday and so much of the last 2 days was preparing for that. Yeva got her "bedroom" (aka - hallway) painted. It's the same color as our living room - a coffee and cream brown.

Bobby figured out that there's pinball on this computer! LOL! I walked by and could have sworn it sounded like an arcade in the office - well, it was!

Busy day at church tomorrow! Oh, and the kids' dedication is also tomorrow - all four at once since I had never gotten around to it before now. :-) I will post pictures hopefully by Sunday.

HowManyOfMe

Oh, I'm hooked... this is so much fun... www.howmanyofme.com - tells you how many have your first and/or last name plus how many people have the combo of the two. (Thank you, Nicky!) Can't wait to show the kids tomorrow.

Today - another awesome day of weather... near 60 degrees. We took the dogs to the park to meet up with some of our homeschooling friends. Then a busy evening at church with Family Night dinner, choir and Adventurer's.

Babies kept me up until almost 2 am last night and got up before 7 am with the puppy - not sure what else happened today... it's been a blur.

It *IS* January, right?

Crazy, crazy weather. I wouldn't complain, except that I KNOW winter has to start someday... just wish I knew when!

Today has been warm - didn't check officially, but somewhere around 50 degrees and it's only supposed to go up over the next couple of days. WOW! The kids and I sat around my seed catalogs again today, deciding what to plant. I wish I'd planted in October! I'd be enjoying a harvest now.

Bobby and Hannah haven't been inside a total of more than 2 hours all day long. Bobby has been using the new stadium equipment and Hannah has continued with her shack/fort... digging holes and what-not.

Yeva started helping to put the dishes away yesterday! Big girl. She loves to put the silverware in the drawer. She gets them in the right spots - just not exactly how *I* would do it. :-) Oh well... I just sit on my hands and leave it. I am so proud of her for being a big helper!

The new puppy, Fudge, is house training so well - I am pleasantly surprised. She only had one accident today and that was when she was being scolded for something else! She's so cute and getting big so fast - won't be carrying her around much longer.

Added lots of new links to my sidebar. Enjoy!

Happy New Year!

Today was a really good day. No, it shouldn't be warm in January, and it shouldn't be foggy and muddy - but it makes for a good day in the yard! Yeva and Hannah each had to change their shoes twice. Bobby and the neighbor, Chris, spent the whole day outside. They even convinced Josh to build them a field goal post!

It was far too nice outside to "do school" inside - although Hannah was a bit disappointed this evening when she realized that we hadn't started school today as planned. Nonetheless, as the big kids were outside, Yeva decided that she wanted to do her own bit of school inside playing with her Winnie the Pooh Uno cards she got from Auntie Dee Dee for Christmas...

For a little bit, we all got to sit down and plan our garden for the Spring. I'm going to do Square Foot Gardening for the first time. It seems so easy and simple. I can't wait to start! I think we'll even have the kids do smaller versions of their own gardens to work on.

Long day. Yeva was beat - she fell asleep at the dinner table! Hannah used to do that all the time when she was little. I think this is the first time Yeva did it!

Well, this layout isn't what I want, but I'm too tired to mess with it tonight!

Starting Again

New year, new you, right?
We're trying again. Starting over. Tomorrow is a new year.

Bobby and Hannah have decided they need totally different things out of life and out of their homeschooling experience. Imagine that!

Hannah wants unit studies, Math-U-See, schedules, books. So, we'll get at it. Tomorrow.

Bobby wants open boundaries, time to explore, freedom from Saxon Math. So - he'll have at it. Tomorrow.