Our Day..

Well, we didnt do a spa day..... :( The girls and I decided that it was such a pretty day that we would just go to the park instead. So we went to sonic and got me a Diet Sprite (part of my new plan on losing weight and being healthy) and the girls wanted a vanilla sprite (really good but way too much sugar for me). Then we went to the park and played on the slide and swang.. (yes that is the southern word for it) and then we fed the ducks....there was one that all the other ducks kept beating off and he almost ate out of my hand...he would stick his head in it and I would have to drop the bread on the ground before he would eat it. So cool!!!! Then we walked around and around the roads and picked up lots of white oak acurns (acorns for you proper people.)

Then we came home and played outside with our puppies and picked up the yard a little and just had fun....then it was back to the grindstone in the house doing laundry and computer work. But the girls got to watch a movie after all that exercise.

We had fun and I think we are going to do a spa type thing when I get back from taking Jason to the doctor tommorow. It ought to be fun.

I am working on a couple of different post. One on the book that I was studying (Shelter for the Spirit) and another one on some different things that have been going on in my life. It is kinda long and personal and some people in my family might not like what I have to say so we will have to see (Julie this means I am going to run this post by you first...although your not the one I am worried about. ) I also want to do a post on the book that we started reading in Bible Study (So You want to be like Christ.)

By the way, Jasons doctors appointment is for a check up on his ears. Because he has severe amounts of fluid built up and they dont want to do tubes right now. I dont want tubes at all but what do you do? We have a friend that her little boy had tubes put in about 3 or 4 weeks ago and he already has had one push out because of infection and the other ear is very bad infected but they dont want to put tubes back in until his infections clear up.

I will let you know how it turns out. I am hoping that after the steroids last time and the increased medicine, that maybe they are better. Please pray.

Right now, I am off to soak in my jacuzzi tub. My darling husband is going to watch the kids so I can. Isnt he just wonderful. :)

Love and Prayers
Crystal

Well, we have started trying to get on a schedule for our school year. But.....they stayed up late last night watching a movie with daddy so I am letting them sleep late.

My house is clean to the point that all I have to do is upkeep and some deep cleaning now and then. You know the days when you really need to clean that kitchen and then the days when you just need to declutter an area...well today is the office and my checkbook.. they are both in a mess.

Schoolwork has been going okay. I was going to try and do Teach Your Child To Read in 100 Easy Lessons With Kylie but She looked at it and told me it wasnt colorful enough for her to do....What? When does a four year old decide that? So we are still doing crafts and play and she is still bored and done in five minutes. I am going to try and order a curriculum to start with in January, which means that our school year will be off from everyone eleses but oh well, when have we been like everyone else?

I will try and post more on our schedule when we get all the kinks worked out.

Sorry for the errors I am typing this one handed...:)

Things to do This evening.

I have several things to accomplish this evening before Paul gets home...

1.) Finish all laundry

2) Finish mowing yard

3) Get supper fixed (Steaks, corn on cob, onion ( on grill) fried okra, green beans.) Bluberry Vanilla pudding cake.

4) Go to library, walmart and two other places.

5) Start organizing office.

Busy Busy day. right now i am putting jason down for a nap.

Love and prayers
crystal

Accomplishments

Okay, I talked about getting organized....Well. I am working on it.



So far, yesterday I cleaned my washroom, kitchen, dining room, living room. I still need to do....



Kids room

Kids Bathroom

Kids Closet (yuck)

Our room

Our Bathroom

Our Closet

The Office (yes i am procrastinating on this one)





I have not mopped or vacuumed, I have just decluttered and reorganized.



Not bad for a woman with three kids (and I am missing my helper) That is another thing, Everyone always wants kylie and thinks they are helping me by taking one away. It would be more help if they would leave her and take one of the others......I could get more done if I didnt have to stop and feed Jason or get Alaina out of stuff...lol.. I mean Kylie helps. And she said the other day that she needed some momma time.....I dont get to spend as much quality time with her as I should...

Its a Monday for sure!

It has been Monday today....We usually stay home and do laundry on Mondays but We had to go to a town about an hour away and switch cell phone companies....yes me with three kids in the middle of the mall in a cell phone store....very funny picture.....anyway, we got that taken care of and had lunch with Paul and was going to go to Target, but I had to come home and call in some info for our new phones and had a door loaded in the back of the truck for our Church building anyway so I will probably go running around this weekend. Just to get out of the house with the girls for a while....Kylie really likes Target and I need some stuff from there anyway.



Jason is not feeling well at all today. He has been terribaly congested the past two or three days and it seems to be getting worse. He does this when we change environments for two or three days or when he is outside very much...We were outside Thursday and went to a birthday party Friday night ( which meant night air and change of environment) then Saturday, we went to the library and to another birthday party.....



Alaina is not feeling well, her ears were almost cleaned up at their doctors appointment but she had a lymph node that was really swollen and I dont think it has gone down any plus she says her ears hurt again, so I will have to call the doctor in the morning....She is an excellant doctor, I just cant say enough about her...She is great with the kids and is really patient and very thorough.. Kylie was playing with that light thing that they look in your ears and stuff with and she let her...She just laughed...





I made some changes to my blog. Verse of the day...at bottom of blog page-------Bible Gateway website link....You can read the Bible online here and search from many different versions-----Changed the prayer list----Added links to several of the ooks that I am reading.....



I will change my Menu next week. Right now I am winging it as I cant seem to get stuff prepared on schedule with sick kids.



Homeschooling is going okay...We dont have a set schdule yet..We are just doing it whenever Kylie says she wants to...I drop whatever I am doing and we do school for 30 to 40 minutes....She is doing some handwriting worksheets and a workbook that we have.



I will try and post more later tonight, I have a couple of things that I want to post on but have a cranky baby righ now and amtyping this between screaming fits....



Love and Prayers

Busy Days

We have had some busy days lately. I have been trying to clean my house which means catching up on what I did not get done monday because Jason was fussy all day, and Tuesday because we had to go to town and wednesday because I was just too tired to do anything. Yesterday, we started cleaning and finally got to a point that I could start sewing on the girls dresses. I have almost got them finished. I need to put the finishing touches on Alaina's and kylie wants a bow on the front of hers. I have never put bows on stuff before so I dont know if i can do this or not.

anyway.. Julie I appreciate your comments and also that you helped Sarah leave one. I am humbled by the fact that I inspire you. I didn't figure I could inspire anyone much less my older sister. I am inspired by you also. I am striving to be more like you in the areas of Bible studying and patience with our kids.

In case anyone who reads mine and Julies blogs are wondering where she is at, She is having a hard time right now. The further along she gets the more she hurts. Please pray that she safely continues to carry this baby until it's due and that she may find some comfort and relief from the aches and pains. I know she would appreciate it.

I know every one of my pregnancies were different. I only had three but they were all different. Kylie layed on my back and had my sciatic nerve pinched. my legs were constantly numb and hurting. Alaina was great except for ligaments stretching and her fingernails scratched. Jason was the worst. I hurt everywhere all the time. There was no comfortable position and no relief.

I had fun with the girls yesterday. We had dance class. We put in a CD and danced to oldies rock. It was hilarious. But it got Kylie interested in school again. So I have decided that we are going to have a dance class in our homeschool. It may not be the best class in the world but It is fun and it is exercise for me. lol

I am going to finish the girls dresses and work on my house some more today. What are you going to do?

Love and Prayers
Crystal

Accomplishments today.

I feel very good about myself today. I got half of my to do list done. That is a big accomplishment right now. I got all the laundry done. lol that was a lot. I got my living room clean, the girls room clean, their toys rotated out and pictures hung in their room. I also got supper put on this morning. Deer steaks and gravy in the crockpot and this evening I am cooking scalloped potatoes and Chocolate Chip cookies. I think I have done really well considering that I don't usally get to do very much. Maybe this sudden burst of energy and ability to do stuff without hurting means the baby is closer to coming. Oh yeah, I also got my kitchen clean. Yes I scrubbed the whole thing.

I also got my Bible study time in without interuptions. See what happens when you give the kids old toys that they haven't seen in a couple of months. Maybe tommorow I can actually get some of my sewing projects done. We will see. I found some of the cutest patterns for the girls some dresses Sunday at Hancocks and their fabric is on sale right now. But I didn't have the money budgeted in right now for stuff like that. so it will have to wait.

Gotta go finish supper, Paul will be home in a few minutes.

If anyone reads my blog and can't comment on it, You can email me and let me know what you think. Julie told me that some of yall that read it is having problems leaving comments because you have to have a blog to leave them. But you can email me and i will email back..

Love and Prayers.