You were warned with the title! :+) Here I sit at 10:23 pm when I should really be getting myself ready for bed. I am recovering from a nasty chest cold so I really should be getting on, but I have missed chatting here. Life seems to be flying by that I have not made much time for this. I have had so many good resources come my way though, that I keep thinking, I have to blog about this! Now that I am here I am sure I won't remember most of them. LOL

I did want to share a fantastic new Christian historical fiction series from a really talented author called the Viking Quest Series. These were so engaging to me that I literally flittered a day away reading them! I rarely do such a thing, but these were good! And they are for your children so that tells you they are quite likely to draw them in too. (And I have the proof in my second daughter!)

We have been *so* enjoying our Mystery of History study! I mean *really* loving it. So much more than I ever thought we would. I think I keep saying that but the curriculum keeps surprising me by its coverage of so many things! :+) We also just read Victory on the Walls and really enjoyed it! It is quite close to the book of Nehemiah that it teaches so much in the story. I really felt for the Israelites and the faith of Nehemiah is real and vibrant. I highly recommend it! 

I am in the midst of planning for next year. I have not felt so scattered as far as school planning goes in a while. I have not been able to devote any serious time to it and with five children in the hopper next year I feel I need a few days to let my brain percolate on it. Really though, good luck to me trying to find those days! I will have to carve out some time once my real responsibilities are done for the day. It is something I really enjoy once I am into it though. The excitement of the next year is always a thrilling thing to look forward to even if it scares me a bit. :+) Have you finished your planning? What about your buying? That is the hardest part, isn't it? LOL

We have a new van! It is a lovely 2007 Town & Country minivan and we are so very blessed and happy to have it. I mean SO very happy!!! We also happened to need a new stove *and* dishwasher at the same time so needless to say it has been a banner week for Lowe's. :+) Too bad that rebate check hasn't arrived! I think we are doing just what they want us to do with it without it. LOL

So I have been following the election cycle pretty closely and am as diappointed as one gal can possibly be at this point. I don't know what to hope and pray for other than for God to be glorified. I don't feel we can ever feel hopeless, but I sure feel disgusted by the fare being dishes up to us from both sides. Would that Ron Paul stood a real fighting chance. I will probably vote for him anyway by write-in, but you know, I sometimes wonder what our country would *do* with someone like him in office! Just the thoughts of what could happen are enough to make me giggle. :+)

So that is not much to pour out of my brain at this time of night, I am afraid. I apologize for the most schizophrenic post I have offered you in a long while now. I hope to be more centered soon - once I stop coughing up my lungs. :+)