It's funny I actually  have 3 blogs right now but they all are about different things. This one I haven't been blogging much on as we really are now after school and summer school at home family and I feel odd blogging here about other things. So I will be sharing some of the things we are doing for education this summer here, while my xanga blog is more about day to day life, and being a stay at home mom. And then my blogspot one is just for my family to cover summer  activites.

So on that note what are your educational plans for the Summer ?

We are doing a hour of math a day, then we also have a craft once a week , plus we are doing a study on Owls, and Astromony oh and a study on the Greeks. I will list how we are going to be doing those later this week end. I really look forward to learning with the kids during the summer, just right dh feels that our small country school is were the kids belong.

I am doing a giveaway on my other blog at www.xanga.com/midge8

The kids are all doing well in school, and we have had some afterschool schooling activies. Mainly reading programs and scouts,and piano lessons.

So if you would like to see more of what is happening in our home visit www.xanga.com/midge8

I have a new blog as our life has changed, and all the kids are in school and I felt a little odd posting here. I will keep this blog as a I don't know how to move everything and I will still write about afterschooling and other topics on here. But the blog about our daily life is now at www.xanga.com/midge8 so come on over and visit us.

Margery

Here are the younger 4 sitting outside before church.

aidan is just 13 months almost 14 mon, but he is a very busy little boy, always trying to help. Mops and brooms are toys to him he loves to help mop and sweep. He even tried to wash the van with the other kids. And he thinks the lawn mower is his ( when we mow he is always in the house), he climbs up in it when ever we are outside.

Well Pat was a busy boy on Friday he hung drywall all day on Saturday, he was helping Steve and Gary the guys who are putting in the room for us.

the celing going up

Break time ( the guys are sitting in what will be Pat's closet.

This is the closet door that leads to our room for the frezzers.

This is the inside of what was the garage door

This is them putting up the wall were the garage door was.

And here is it all finished

This year my ds pat built me 4 raised beds, this is a picture of one.

The first picture is from around May 20th, this bed is all plants not easily killed by frost. The second picture is from yesterday.

In our little town Memorial Day is a real big deal. There is a parade and then a program at the bridge for those who died at sea, and then one in the park. There is a reading of Flanders Fields, and the Gettysburg Address, plus prayer and a speaker. My dd Sarah and dd Kathryn were there with their GS troops and the boys Conner and Nolan were there with the cub scouts. And my DH was there with the VFW, he got to fire the rifle that he is holding, both at the bridge and the park. At the bridge everyone drops flowers into the river in memory of those who died, and at the park as the names from our town that died in war are read off the GS and Cub Scouts place the wreaths on the crosses. And here are the pictures.

Before the parade, Conner and Nolan and fellow cub scout.

Sarah and Kathryn

DH ( he is the one on the closest end }

At the river

At the park

My dd Sarah was in the scout races with her team the River Raiders. She was in a relay race and her part took about 1 1/2 hours of paddling. Here are some picks of her and her partner. This was a little after the  start of the race. They did get hung up on a tree once but the Gator Guys a team of eagle scouts came to there rescue. The neat thing is even though the Gator Guys stopped to help them and three other teams in there race passed them the Gator Guy still won their race.

This was at the end of their part of the relay race.

In a few short weeks this space will become our son Pat's new room. It is right now our garage, there will be a small room for the frezzers, closet space for tools and space for Pat's bed and desk. And yes mom my garage is really this clean right now

This year instead of a family vacation we bought a pool, now let me tell you when the kids told me they wanted to go swimming and I reminded them  the water was only 65 degrees and It was only 68 outside that didn't stop them. I think they were in the pool for a few seconds and right back out again. Well we have had the pool filled for a few days now and It was 85 here yesterday so they went swimming agian and this time lasted about 30 min.

Yet today it is raining and only 58 degrees, here are some photo's of the pool.

My son Pat with dad's money built me some rasied bed gardens. There will be four of them when they are all finished. The first two are ready for planting and one other one is ready for dirt and the fourth is yet to be made. Maybe this weekend he will get it built.

The first bed has carrots ( 128 ), lettuce ( 32) , Radishes( 32), Broclli ( 8),spinach ( 18), Onions ( 64),peas ( 32), and snap Peas ( 32),

Bed number 2 has 20 strawberry plants,

Bed # 3 is going to have 6 roma tomato plants and 1 cherry and 1 beefsteak tomato I will plant these at the end of the month when all chance of frost should be gone. And I will plant some more spinach and lettuce around those plants.

Bed #4 is going to have 6 cucumber plants, and 7 pepper plant. I think I cannot find the plan right now. I was hopping to plant some pumpkins somewhere else in the yard I just do not know yet.

Well today was another busy day here at the Eagle’s Nest, housework wise I did another load of wash and a general pick-up. Then I headed outside, were we hung more laundry to dry, and worked more on the garden.

Then it was time for repairs, I have to fix the washer as the cold water intake is clogged with dirt the real fine kind, but of coarse I couldn’t find the right pair of pliers so that repair will need to be done tomorrow. After Pat’s tutoring, Aidan fell asleep so I left him with Pat and took the three amigos with me to get the snow tries off the van. While when we got here they couldn’t see me until 3pm so off to the library in town to waste time until 3pm. I have never been in this library but found that they have a great children’s area so I will be back this summer with the kids. After the tires I stopped by home and picked some of my kids and all the cousins’ clothes and drove out to DH work and dropped off the cousins as they are heading to grandma’s house.

 I also picked up the wood for my raised beds so my son Pat will be working on them tomorrow, as I would like to get my cool weather plants into the garden this weekend.

 As far as meals went we had French toast sticks for breakfast and I burned the sausage. Lunch was turkey sandwiches and I made myself an egg and cheese burrito. Dinner was on the run as I was driving kids all over so we had Arby’s roast beef sandwiches.,

 And we did do some school work today.

What a day I spent most of it waiting for the pool guys to come, which they never did. But I did get the kitchen floor and living floor washed, and Aidan slept though his PT. I did get more laundry done and hug on the line. Plus the daily work of school, and kitchen work.

 For breakfast we had cereal and lunch was leftover hamburgers. Dinner was an open the fridge and have an idea meal as I was feeding 12 yesterday and 10 were kids. We had beef potpie, I used the leftover beef from dinner on Monday, added some gravy, peas, carrots, corn, and some canned potatoes (I didn’t have any leftover ones). Then all into a pan and topped with biscuits, and into the oven.

 Then there were the evening activates the two oldest girls here went to youth group; the youngest 6 (but not the baby) went to Word of Life Club. My oldest son stayed with the baby until dh got home. And I went to the track for an hour of exercise, well I made it 30 min before I just could walk any more. Then pick everyone up and home to bed.

 Tomorrow my extra 3 kids head home with my dh who is taking them

We went to the science center to celebrate Aidan's first birthday, we had quite the crowd with only family and even then not the whole family. The one spot the big kids love was closed,but Aidan had fun in his hands on spot.

You have to love a boy and his firetruck.

Here is a picture of some of the other kids,

Nolan is the one working the display, Luke my nephew,then Makayla my niece, then Kathryn, and my oldest Pat with his stupid hat on.

Here is the before photo. We wait until there first birthay to get there haircut, and he was one little boy who really needed a hair cut.

And here is the after, he was so good at getting his haircut.