Don't Faint...I am posting two days in a row!!

Seriously, I know it's like an eclipse during a meteor shower and a rainbow all at the same time. I can hardly believe it myself...sheesh.









But ok, moving on. I decided to show you my home made not so spectacular cards. They really aren't the cat's meow or anything...I was just using up stash.
The wreath is probably a little better, but again, not anything you haven't seen before, and not as good either. But without further adieu...

Ok, so I have lots of pictures to take. First off, I have been busy.... when am I not busy??? But I have been making my own Christmas cards. I will put a 4x6 picture of the kids in each one. I have 3 different ones to put in. I also have several gifts to make. Once I finish them all I will post pictures of those. I also made a very cute wreath. I am sorry that I'm so lazy..haha. I will try to get them up this weekend.
The kids will be spending Sunday afternoon with some friends so I can get some stuff done. Tim has some things to do as well so he won't be here. A whole afternoon to actually get things done!! Can you imagine? I will get so much accomplished. I'm hoping that I can get EVERYTHING done, but if I can at least put a dent in my punch list I will be ecstatic!! How are you all spending your Christmas?? I can't share our plans yet, but they are very exciting :)
Here is one picture from our cards. Be back soon :)

Still here...

AAAhHH! Yes, I'm alive...
Mom came in the week before Thanksgiving and we have been busy with all the preparations for turkey day. 3 days of cooking and Black Friday shopping and Christmas decorating.
I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend. I did, but now I have some reality to deal with. Amber's birthday. Her 11th birthday. Does anyone else have a hard time dealing with birthdays??? I can't believe that 11 years ago right now I was miserably pregnant with my girl. She got up from bed a little while ago to tell me that her and her sister were still awake because they digested too much glucose... nuts.
When do they do that?? Grow up I mean. It's like one day you're changing diapers and the next day they know physics. Sigh...
So this will wrap up our birthday run for the year and I have 8 months before I go through this all again. I hope you all have a wonderful rest of the week. My mom has 1 more week here so I won't have time to blog again for a while. I will try and get a few more in before Christmas.
Blessings :)

Catch up

Ok so I am posting a catch up here. 1st up, Claire's bday: She made the cake, it's an artist's palette. She loves art. She did a great job too. And she is totally loving her art supplies.

Here is our science project that we worked on today...Digestion Land!! So here we enter into...Digestion Land through the mouth, of course!

Here is Claire's Esophagus Drop Zone and Noah's Stomach Bounce Around















Nate and I worked on the small intestine roller coaster and Amber did the (mouth entrance above and the) Large intestine water slide.

And Claire decided to wrap up digestion with Basket "bowl" with toilet seats for baskets. I suggested Feces Foul Shots, but the kids weren't into that surprisingly enough. So I am leaving tomorrow for my weekend with some mommies. I am so looking forward to this!! I will be back for a few days and then my mom will be in for a few weeks so I may not be the best at posting...how unusual right??? So prayers for my hubs and the kiddos to have a blast while I'm away.


Oh, I almost forgot I finally downloaded pics of my window chalkboard... and the wall where it takes it's residence. The paint job is kinda cruddy, but I love it and use it continuously. Well, I am going to hit the hay, so I hope you all have a wonderfully amazing weekend and I will be back soon :)

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Well, hello!! Tomorrow we are having Claire's 9th birthday. I have been dying to give her the birthday gifts that have been sitting in my closet for over 2 weeks...so yay for that!! I went loco at Hobby Lobby (I LOVE that store!) and bought her beaucoup art supplies! I mean canvas', watercolor pencils, notebooks, pastels, how to sketch books, drawing pencils, a wooden human model, brushes, and other things I can't remember. Her Nana bought her a table easel that came with all new color pencils in the best colors. Even metallics and flourescents. She will be so excited!!
So, I made my chalkboard window that I have been putting off for ever. I was going to go with a magnet board, but I decided chalk was easier and I use my metal door for a magnet board. I'll take a picture tomorrow when I get my camera out for the birthday party.
I am already planning some cool Christmas crafts. I will start my crafting when my mom comes in on the 16th. We are going to spend our time around the house doing crafts and such. The kids love doing that stuff and making cookies all together.
Any Christmas plans? We have some but I can't talk about that yet. You'll have to wait till after Grammy leaves before I can spill those beans ;)
We will also be doing some Saturday school to make up for how much history and science we will be missing while she's here. yay for that. Well, I'm going to go watch Captain America so have a great night!!
Blessings!

Update

Hi there! It's been a while, and I'm happy to say it's not because I have been uber busy. I actually have had a pretty nice week. I made several attempts to blog, but realized I would bore some poor folks to death and I couldn't bear the thought of that responsibility.
Tim has actually had most of Wednesday (I helped him unload and reload the truck), almost all of Thursday off, and all of Friday off...thank goodness for salary right!!
We've just been hanging out as a family. Had to go do some shopping for warm clothes for Noah. Poor kid. I consign for all of my kids fall and spring. Let me just tell you though...the hardest one to get clothes for is Noah. He just turned 7, and 7 year old boys are not super easy on their clothes. If you don't believe me come and check out his drawers. Noah is a funny boy. When he gets this one certain pair of pants he wears them until he completely.wears.them.out. And I don't mean, oh these pants are starting to get a worn look, I mean if the last 1 inch holding the pants together just under the knee tears the kids going to be wearing shorts worn out. And apparently other moms think that I (or moms of other 7 year old boys) actually want to buy their sons jeans that are in the same condition. For $10. I don't even want to pay $10 for brand new pants, never mind someone's worn out wholly, falling apart pants. I don't care if they are polo, or gucci, or Ghandi's. No way. Wow. Sorry about that. Anyway, we had to take that boy shopping.Clothes are expensive too. He needed pants, shirts, and a coat. We went to every thrift store and found almost nothing for him. I had to take him to Target, Kohl's, and Walmart to finally get him a few pairs of pants and shirts. The kid is a stick and can't wear pants unless they have the adjustable waist in them, so that pretty much rules out the cheaper pants that I would like to buy. Also, the big kids clothes (Noah wears a 7 now) are as much as adult clothes!! I saw pants in the boys section that were more than the pants I bought! His coat was more than Tim's was!! It's nearly unbearable to spend that kind of money on stuff. I miss teh days when I could buy everything for everyone at consignment sales. Ah. Memories. My kids are growing up :(

And let me just tell you...I'm not feeling Goodwill anymore. I bought a sweater there and a few other items. I really love this sweater. Its American Eagle. I can't afford to even walk in to AE anymore. Maybe 2 kids ago, but now mommy shops clearance and off season and yard sales. So when I pay the cashier tells me that all name brand clothes are $7. Why you ask??? They are trying to compete with our local high end consignment stores. Which means this: The consignment store (which PAYS for the clothes they get from people) charges about $7-$10 for a sweater like the one I bought. So they only make about $4-$6 for the sweater and then they have to pay their bills, workers, ect...Now Goodwill receives their items for FREE. They aren't a consignment store. I donate clothes to them regularly. So people donate items to them and they in turn hike up their prices for people to pay who can't afford to shop at other places. I know that Goodwill does a lot with the money that they receive, but I am not pleased with the amount they are charging. Do all Goodwill's do this? I saw a watch there for $20! That's crazy. In my opinion. I am cheap. that may be what the problem is. Does anyone else have a problem with this??

Well, I'm going to go watch the rest of the games and cry. I can't believe the Saints are losing to the Rams. Really people? It's bittersweet to have NFL Sunday Ticket sometimes. If the Panthers win and the Saints lose how can I show my face at Bible study tonight?? Just kidding...but not...
Blessings :)

This and That

I still haven't taken any pics of our projects yet...I know, I know. But I did have a wonderful week. We didn't have a lot of activities this week. Noah didn't have speech Thursday either (teacher workshop or something) so that was an unexpected surprise too. He only has 2 more sessions and then we're done for the quarter. That usually gives us about 2-3 weeks off for testing and rescheduling.
It was a great school week this week. The girls FINALLY got caught up on their Latin. We have been reviewing since school started. And when I say we I mean WE. I totally forgot how to conjugate verbs and decline nouns. How many endings should a noun have?? Really. Feminine, masculine, Neuter...ahhh!
Also, the girls were featured on the Charity:Water blog http://www.charitywater.org/blog/category/updates/campaigns-to-watch/ if you'd like to check it out. The girls were very excited to do the interview. I hadn't checked the website until tonight to see if it was published though. They will like reading it. They took out everything we put in about Jesus though. I was pretty upset. We know why we did it.

Matthew 25:34-36

³⁴ “Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. ³⁵ For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, ³⁶ I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’

I better get going. I will take pictures soon of the science and history stuff we have been doing and I know I still have our new poetry posting to do. I'll get to it as soon as I can.