Which begins with being 10 minutes late!
Shame, shame on us...
The doctor actually had the audacity to say Anna was overweight! She's just about the exact same size of most of the 7 year-olds we know (and we know several), so I really don't see how a almost 11 year old the size of a 7 year old is overweight. Anyway, we're going to make an effort to walk ~as a family~ a mile a day.
Anna has a cyst or something on her leg, and he said he'd never seen anything like it, and referred her to a dermatologist. I hate having to wait, but we won't even be able to call them until Monday. Anna is glad for the wait, though...she wouldn't mind waiting until forever. lol
And Emma has scolosis. As far as I know, no one else in our families have it. He said it's mild, and he's just going to watch it for now...she's going back in 6 months for a re-check...so I get to worry for 6 months.
Both girls got shots...and had blood taken for tests. : ( THAT wasn't fun, but they did it without TOO many tears.
The absolute worst part was....we had to get up at the ungodly hour of 6:30 am!....and we were still late. lol
We did find out that our doctor is a homeschooler, too! That's always a nice discovery. Both he and his nurse were very positive about our homeschooling...even though they did ask about grades. I faltered a bit, but recovered quickly and said, "A's". lol
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Working Working...always Working...
BUT, getting SO much done! I just LOVE beautiful days when I can accomplish so much. I got three or four loads of laundry washed both yesterday and today, so I'm pretty much all caught up! (I still need to do whites, which is why pretty much.)
We got the spot marked off for Emma's building, and Daddy started the digging for the blocks. So, YAY! by next week (unless it starts raining) we should have her building up and all their toys out of my building. Double YAY! : )
I've been working outside mostly, it's SO nice outside lately....even though a lady we talked to mentioned snow this weekend. What?!? Couldn't be! One more reason we don't watch the weather channel....too much bad news. lol
While it's nice, though, we're enjoying it. Oscar, even...he doesn't like to be inside if we're outside, so he comes out, too, and barks at all the other dogs..."Hey, I'm a dog too! Do you hear me barking? I'm a dog!" I read outside for a while today...nice....
Only thing I need to do still is to add a bit more shreaded paper to the worm bin...I'll get around to that before dark, though, I think.
Tomorrow the girls have a doctor appointment for checkups...and a couple other things I need to mention, which I really hate to have to do...last time we mentioned something "extra" he was grouchy about it. : ( I'll probably change their dr when they do the open enrollment thing again, and get them both a woman doctor. They both have said they'd prefer that. I don't blame them...I like women drs better, too, unless they're bigger than me...then I'm intimidated. lol
Oh, one other thing...we got fresh milk today! We stopped by a yard sale and they had a sign up "Fresh Milk $3.50 gal." cheaper than store-bought, and FRESH! Daddy and I decided we'll probably start buying from them regularly as long as they're selling...it's just SO much better than store-milk. : )
We got the spot marked off for Emma's building, and Daddy started the digging for the blocks. So, YAY! by next week (unless it starts raining) we should have her building up and all their toys out of my building. Double YAY! : )
I've been working outside mostly, it's SO nice outside lately....even though a lady we talked to mentioned snow this weekend. What?!? Couldn't be! One more reason we don't watch the weather channel....too much bad news. lol
While it's nice, though, we're enjoying it. Oscar, even...he doesn't like to be inside if we're outside, so he comes out, too, and barks at all the other dogs..."Hey, I'm a dog too! Do you hear me barking? I'm a dog!" I read outside for a while today...nice....
Only thing I need to do still is to add a bit more shreaded paper to the worm bin...I'll get around to that before dark, though, I think.
Tomorrow the girls have a doctor appointment for checkups...and a couple other things I need to mention, which I really hate to have to do...last time we mentioned something "extra" he was grouchy about it. : ( I'll probably change their dr when they do the open enrollment thing again, and get them both a woman doctor. They both have said they'd prefer that. I don't blame them...I like women drs better, too, unless they're bigger than me...then I'm intimidated. lol
Oh, one other thing...we got fresh milk today! We stopped by a yard sale and they had a sign up "Fresh Milk $3.50 gal." cheaper than store-bought, and FRESH! Daddy and I decided we'll probably start buying from them regularly as long as they're selling...it's just SO much better than store-milk. : )
Monday, April 7, 2008
Today was WONDERFUL!!
I got SO many thing done I've been wanting to get around to!
I finally got into my compost bins...and oh, the DIRT! I LOVE LOVE LOVE my compost bins. I was really wishing I had charged the camera batteries yesterday when I thought of it, so I could post pics of the wonderful, big pile of DIRT I got. (Isn't that just the wierdest thing? lol) I put compost over all my flower beds, and set a bit aside for the girl's seeds they're starting.
I got the cabbage and tomato plants in the ground, and planted okra and radish seeds.
The girls carried brush to the backyard for a cookout tonight, and we roasted hot dogs and marshmallows when it started getting dark.
Daddy worked on his car, and got it running nicely (for the most part). Now he just has to decide if he should sell it or drive it. ; ) I sat with him while he worked on it, and he liked that. : ) I had a hammer and chisel working on getting concrete off some blocks so we can use them for Emma's storage building, but squished my little finger in the process, which put a stop to that. That's when I went and started digging in dirt, so now I have a cut finger with dirt in it. I'm thinking a nice long bath might help clean it up, though. : )
I finally got into my compost bins...and oh, the DIRT! I LOVE LOVE LOVE my compost bins. I was really wishing I had charged the camera batteries yesterday when I thought of it, so I could post pics of the wonderful, big pile of DIRT I got. (Isn't that just the wierdest thing? lol) I put compost over all my flower beds, and set a bit aside for the girl's seeds they're starting.
I got the cabbage and tomato plants in the ground, and planted okra and radish seeds.
The girls carried brush to the backyard for a cookout tonight, and we roasted hot dogs and marshmallows when it started getting dark.
Daddy worked on his car, and got it running nicely (for the most part). Now he just has to decide if he should sell it or drive it. ; ) I sat with him while he worked on it, and he liked that. : ) I had a hammer and chisel working on getting concrete off some blocks so we can use them for Emma's storage building, but squished my little finger in the process, which put a stop to that. That's when I went and started digging in dirt, so now I have a cut finger with dirt in it. I'm thinking a nice long bath might help clean it up, though. : )
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Oregon Trail and Other Things
I played Oregon Trail by myself for the first time tonight. I killed everyone except myself off very quickly...we made it just past the Great Salt Lake. : ( I was snake bit, but didn't die. : )
Today, IRL, we really *did* have run-ins with snakes. We went out picking up trash again, and the road we took was next to the river, which was flooding since it's been raining so much lately. (Not really too bad, just about 5 ft. over the banks, and only over the road in one place. Daddy saw a couple boys come across it, so he knew he could make it, but it scared Anna, so she and I walked way around it, on the bank.) Anyway, Daddy parked the van, and walked back to meet Anna and I on the other side, and Emma had been with him and walked back, too, and we were messing about, and I went to spear a piece of trash...and there, right in the water's edge was a snake! My spear was only about two inches from it! It started swimming away (can't say I blame it) and I started screaming, and the girls came back from the van where they had just been about to get in. The snake came back up onto a log, and they all got a good look at it. : P Anyway, Daddy beat us back to the van, because we were talking over the snake, and lo and behold....there was one right outside the side door of the van! Either it had just recently come up, or Emma had stepped right over it when she got out! AND the girls had just been going back to get in when I saw the other one! We stayed close to the middle of the road after that...and poked with sticks before getting near edges. Gives me chills just thinking about them. And I'll bet I'll have nightmares tonight.
After that we went on down the road and took a little off-shoot road that Daddy and I both knew to be a dead-end, but we didn't know what was at the end of it, so we went up and besides the water tower (who knew? lol) was an old graveyard. Part was fenced....about 5 graves, but there were probably 20 unfenced, and lots were the really old ones, with just stones for markers. We read the readable ones, until Oscar peed on one and knocked another one over. Then we left. : (
We picked up a bit more trash, and saw 10 Canada geese swimming in the river...oh, and on the other side we saw two (not at the same place) blue herons! They're SO cool. When I was a kid I had no idea blue herons would live around here. Last year, I believe, there was even a nesting batch of them. They're amazing. : )
Today, IRL, we really *did* have run-ins with snakes. We went out picking up trash again, and the road we took was next to the river, which was flooding since it's been raining so much lately. (Not really too bad, just about 5 ft. over the banks, and only over the road in one place. Daddy saw a couple boys come across it, so he knew he could make it, but it scared Anna, so she and I walked way around it, on the bank.) Anyway, Daddy parked the van, and walked back to meet Anna and I on the other side, and Emma had been with him and walked back, too, and we were messing about, and I went to spear a piece of trash...and there, right in the water's edge was a snake! My spear was only about two inches from it! It started swimming away (can't say I blame it) and I started screaming, and the girls came back from the van where they had just been about to get in. The snake came back up onto a log, and they all got a good look at it. : P Anyway, Daddy beat us back to the van, because we were talking over the snake, and lo and behold....there was one right outside the side door of the van! Either it had just recently come up, or Emma had stepped right over it when she got out! AND the girls had just been going back to get in when I saw the other one! We stayed close to the middle of the road after that...and poked with sticks before getting near edges. Gives me chills just thinking about them. And I'll bet I'll have nightmares tonight.
After that we went on down the road and took a little off-shoot road that Daddy and I both knew to be a dead-end, but we didn't know what was at the end of it, so we went up and besides the water tower (who knew? lol) was an old graveyard. Part was fenced....about 5 graves, but there were probably 20 unfenced, and lots were the really old ones, with just stones for markers. We read the readable ones, until Oscar peed on one and knocked another one over. Then we left. : (
We picked up a bit more trash, and saw 10 Canada geese swimming in the river...oh, and on the other side we saw two (not at the same place) blue herons! They're SO cool. When I was a kid I had no idea blue herons would live around here. Last year, I believe, there was even a nesting batch of them. They're amazing. : )
Saturday, April 5, 2008
Weekend Beginning....
And it's NICE...: )
Today I've worked my little tail off...reading, napping, messing about reading blogs online...
I'm going to try to keep up this level of activity for at least one more day. ; )
Anna and Daddy have spent most of the day playing Oregon Trail, and Emma enjoyed herself with our new VCR. We were without one for about a month, and just got another one last week, so she had to re-visit some of her favourite videos.
They're working on Daddy's hair right now...gelling and combing...and watching Stargate again. I think I'll suggest a video we haven't see for a while. Maybe The Love Bug. : )
Today I've worked my little tail off...reading, napping, messing about reading blogs online...
I'm going to try to keep up this level of activity for at least one more day. ; )
Anna and Daddy have spent most of the day playing Oregon Trail, and Emma enjoyed herself with our new VCR. We were without one for about a month, and just got another one last week, so she had to re-visit some of her favourite videos.
They're working on Daddy's hair right now...gelling and combing...and watching Stargate again. I think I'll suggest a video we haven't see for a while. Maybe The Love Bug. : )
Thursday, April 3, 2008
More of This and That...
It's been rainy for a few days, so we haven't been able to get out and pick up trash for awhile. We did, however, take the girl's cans they've picked up to sell today, and they got $26! We went out for pizza, then they bought parts in a new computer game. (Oregon Trail) They are playing their new game now. (Emma keeps saying, "WHAT should I DO?" lol)
I just discovered I have a two-day overdue DVD from the library...and so everything I was going to blog about has left me. : ( I completely forgot it. They've been watching so much Stargate they haven't thought of anything else for a while...and no one thought of the darn DVD. Waahhh...
Back to better things...
Mullein
http://www.nps.gov/plants/alien/fact/veth1.htm
We've always called it rabbit tobacco...Sunday when we were out walking Anna spotted some and said, "Oh! It's KITTY CABBAGE!" lol I am sure it will forevermore be called kitty cabbage in our family. : )
While we were out today I bought Oscar a name tag. He jingles now. : ) The cats aren't quite sure what to do with a jingling dog. Even Tiger swatted at him. lol
We went to the pet store to buy some ferret food, and took a minute to look at the animals...and boas...ewww. lol I wasn't expecting them and squealed. lol
Prices have gone up SO much it's almost unbelievable. I took $300 out as usual for groceries and non-food items, and wasn't able to get everything on my list...before I could get all with about $20 left over for *incidentals* during the week. : ( Daddy fussed about "mismanagment of funds", but apologized when I pointed out that I wasn't responsible for prices going up. Honestly, if they don't stop going up we'll have to pick up cans to help pay for basic necessities, instead of special pizza dinners and games. (only half-joking...)
Rabbit food alone has gone up $3...cat food $4...animal bedding $2....cheese has gone up about .40...I tried to get things on sale, but still, outrageous!
I had something else here, but it disappeared. Thankfully Blogger saves drafts for you! I like that...my whole post didn't leave me.
It's now what was tomorrow, yesterday. That is to say, when I got cut off last night and decided to just get off the computer and left my post as a draft it was yesterday, now it's tomorrow, or today, and Daddy and I are back to happy, and the girls are having a blast traveling the Oregon Trail. Karen had recommended it a couple years ago, but we hadn't bought it before...it may have been too early for the girls to really enjoy it anyway. They certainly are enjoying it now, though. : )
I just discovered I have a two-day overdue DVD from the library...and so everything I was going to blog about has left me. : ( I completely forgot it. They've been watching so much Stargate they haven't thought of anything else for a while...and no one thought of the darn DVD. Waahhh...
Back to better things...
Mullein
http://www.nps.gov/plants/alien/fact/veth1.htm
We've always called it rabbit tobacco...Sunday when we were out walking Anna spotted some and said, "Oh! It's KITTY CABBAGE!" lol I am sure it will forevermore be called kitty cabbage in our family. : )
While we were out today I bought Oscar a name tag. He jingles now. : ) The cats aren't quite sure what to do with a jingling dog. Even Tiger swatted at him. lol
We went to the pet store to buy some ferret food, and took a minute to look at the animals...and boas...ewww. lol I wasn't expecting them and squealed. lol
Prices have gone up SO much it's almost unbelievable. I took $300 out as usual for groceries and non-food items, and wasn't able to get everything on my list...before I could get all with about $20 left over for *incidentals* during the week. : ( Daddy fussed about "mismanagment of funds", but apologized when I pointed out that I wasn't responsible for prices going up. Honestly, if they don't stop going up we'll have to pick up cans to help pay for basic necessities, instead of special pizza dinners and games. (only half-joking...)
Rabbit food alone has gone up $3...cat food $4...animal bedding $2....cheese has gone up about .40...I tried to get things on sale, but still, outrageous!
I had something else here, but it disappeared. Thankfully Blogger saves drafts for you! I like that...my whole post didn't leave me.
It's now what was tomorrow, yesterday. That is to say, when I got cut off last night and decided to just get off the computer and left my post as a draft it was yesterday, now it's tomorrow, or today, and Daddy and I are back to happy, and the girls are having a blast traveling the Oregon Trail. Karen had recommended it a couple years ago, but we hadn't bought it before...it may have been too early for the girls to really enjoy it anyway. They certainly are enjoying it now, though. : )
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