What happened to the yahoo group Homeschool freecycle?  I know it existed I was a member.    This is not the first time this has happened either.  I have had that happen with a couple of groups.   So dear owners if you are disbanding a group send out a mass e mail so at least we know what is going on.......awful to be sitting at the puter and scratching your head going.......HUH?

   No not Christmas........school!   Ok so Christmas is first but I love starting back up after an extended period off.  Just so much fun to go and get new pencils and paper.  The to plan and see the kids get excited and ohhhh even better to see them go .......mooooommmmaaahhhhhh we were supposed to start school today!!! When you had to delay just a couple more days.  That is the best feeling........don't you think?   I sure do.

I am 2 kids off these days!!! LOL.   Yup 2 of my birdies flew the nest to go and seek their fortunes and try and avoid the big bad wolf!!!    Both are off living on their own and just dropping in for a visit or a quick e mail.  Oh and there are the phone calls........ohh you know the ones where it is your newly "adult " child saying ohhh mommy how do I do this or that, or could you get so and so for me?  Ahhhhh yes the .........we are adult thing is great.  I mean my goodness why wouldn't it be........they have all the answers!!! At least until something actually came up or they were not sure which person they were listening to was right or wrong. 

Remember those days folks? Not too long ago when it was you and I going through the same thing.   Newly found independence and NOBODY can tell me what to do!!!!   ummm now could um you please tell me what to do????? LOL.......ahhhhhh youth!

   My phone was out for 3 days!   Oh, and not just my phone, the whole neighborhood had no phone service!!   Which , since we all live out in the country also meant no dial up acess!   Someone cut a major line so ....uhh yeah......not good.    All these guys......and we saw where it was and the umm "pros" that did it, had to do was call okie dig and they would have come and, for free mind you, marked all the stuff to watch for.  arghhh.

Oh well no use  over spilt milk ehhh? Or is it spilled milk...hmmm spilt yeah that is right.

Ok well happy 4th to all!!!!!!

    You know what two words I really despise?  I CAN'T!!!  Really gets under my craw!!!   I have been hearing that a lot lately. From everyone I know!  What is the deal?  Look can't usually boils down to want.......we don't want to this or that.  Are there some true cant's?  Sure ......but very few. 

If you don't want to then say ......hey yeah ya know what......uh uh.  At least that is honest.   I would list some of the I cants I have heard lately but the list would be huge and well honestly I am tired.   Ohhh believe me they run the gamut of things.  The list of I cant's is as long as your imagination!    Big kids, little kids, teachers, officials, family, strangers, friends........yup and even I the hater of cant's well I have had a couple myself.   But it was not until upon hearing everyone else's list of can'ts that I realized just exactly how much I DESPISE THOSE WORDS.  

Food for thought folks. 

  Ok, update on my unwanted "critters".  They are so still here!!!!! 

I am at a loss of what to do.   So far that is 2 professionals, 2 batches of different sprays, boric acid, and raid fumigators.  They don't even seem to be any less! 

The former owners took the lady who rented to court and they had the pros. that were here testify to just how bad the bugs were here.  They also took video of everything she tore up.......which really was not too bad. We have fixed most of that stuff alread.  

I would fix a thousand holes if I could get rid of the problem I currently have.  I have looked things up on the internet and everything. 

Anyone out there know what I could try.   Ohh and not getting lizards.................yet.....I am considering it though.   LOL.  Well would be an excuse to get some new pets. 

So other news.  I went to our local Book benevolance today......it is a resource for homeschoolers open once a month on the 3rd sat. of the month and you can go and dig through and get books and things.  I found some pretty nifty things for the kids to use.  

Now see free books for folks like me.........well that can be bad........I love books like alcoholics like liquor!  I see book stores or books in garage sales and I start to salavate and sweat and get all jittery.  

Sooooo needless to say today I fed my addiction with 2 good sized boxes of books plus on wal mart sack!!

Ohhh I got stuff I will use and couple of them were rather large; such as the international encyclopedia that is one big book now let me tell ya.  But it was like new and I plan on really utilizing it.

ohhhh and while I was gone my husband who kept all the kids so I could go dig through books kept all of the kids and finished my porch!!! it is all covered now!!! such a cute little deck out there!!! cant wait to sit out there this fall in all my big tummy glory.  thanks hubby!!!! I wuv you much!!!

Thank goodness!!!  That was the most tiresome camping I have ever done!!! I was even in my own back yard! So go figure.  I was so busy trying to rangle the baby away from the fire   that I didn't get to do any pioneery type things or even read to the kids.   Then when we could finally all go back in all i wanted to do was sleep    . 

ohh and does Pat Robertson irritate anyone but me?!?!?!?!?!!!!!!!!1

Random thought there.

   Well sort of .  We are setting up the tent in the yard........which if you have ever been camping at the lake and the camp sites usually all have trees around them and grass and rocks........well that is what our place is like . Minus the lake.   Our little acre "ranch" is just lovely that way .....trees everywhere.  Everyone says ...... hey it's like being at the lake.    I affectionately like to call it Camp Matchen or The Big M  Ranch!  

Ok back to camping out.  The lovely person who used to live here left us a lovely present.......not to elaborate as it sickens me but those things you need to buy little black motels for! Sooooooo any how we have had 2 different exterminators out here and all they seem to do is flush them all out.   It is so bad that ughhh they come out even in the day time.    So enough is enough.  I have only ever had this problem one other time in my life and the only thing that worked was fumigators.   Not aresol bombs .......fumigators.   We had to do it 2 times but it worked and after the first time it was 90 % better.   So I broke down and bought some.  So we are going to go out in a while when it is really cool out and let er rip!!!!!

I had planned to read to the kids by the fire but I am soooooo tired we may just have to settle for letting the kids tell stories.  

Hub fixed the ac........well fixed the vent so now it is much more bearable in the house. 

  Funny we just got it cool in here and have to turn it off and go out!!!! lol. oh well such is life .......just thankful that we have one to cool us.

Lets see what all the kids learn tonight!!!!

   Usually I am a year round schooling mom.  Just seems to work better that way. But since the move and all the things going on(new baby and my craving for sleep) I have just spent the summer trying not to feel overwhelmed.

Ohhh and another lovely event happened yesterday...THE AC WENT OUT!!!  Well it still works but something got under our house and tore up all of the duct work.  Ahhhh critters. Sooooo having no money to buy it all we are going to do something that is not nearly as pretty but effective.  Salvage enough duct to run the intake and the output into two seperate windows.  Works great just does not look real purdy! We have had to do this a few years ago in a rent house where the land lord would not put in ac.  So my dad gave us a central unit and we hooked it up via the windows.  We are surviving pretty well at night with fans as it is pretty cool.  There is a little window unit in our room and we are cosleepers so that helps my husband sleep.....the ac not the kids. lol

So I am thinking .......hmmmmm I can trap them in the only cool room in the house and get some school started if I just organize it! ha ha! (scary diabolical laugh)

Well we will see how that goes. Progress reports to come.

I decided that since this is a homeschool blogger site I would start a seperate blog to talk about my pregnancy.  I will list it in the links.   Hope you all will come and take a peek.

How is everyone's Memorial Weekend going?  Ours is going ok.  I feel kind of preggo icky but other than that I am good.   We didn't do much just kind of lounge around and watch some tv. I took lots of naps........could take a lot more.

I am going to go out as soon as it cools off a bit this evening. which it may or may not do.........good ole summer time.

I have a batch of cowboy stew in the making so that is dinner........one pot easy.

It is not cooking from scratch or anything but tasty none the less.

ok soooooo now someone tell me how to fix my friends list..........add or ask people.

lol........cant figure it out.

See you all later.

Wendy

Angel baby # 10 is on it's way!!!! Due in Jan. 

I am so excited and so is dad!!!

Been really busy so no able to blog like I would like but will try harder to keep up.  Key word is try. lol

Blessings and hugs all.

Show of hands...............

Stuck in a rut?

Anyone...........

Anyone????

Ok............

Just me.

I almost lost my computer this weekend!!!  Somehow.......don't ask me how we managed to aquire 82 viruses!!!!!    I thought all was lost but I managed to start over from 0 and for now at least we are ok.   Bummer of it is I lost lots of cute lil pics of my kids!  grrr!!!!!   Well I think I am going to get myself a burner so I can put the lil videos on disc and save them. 

My lil camera is actually great!!! you can take up to 42 minutes of video with it.  I was shocked for no more than we paid for it.   Well now we did buy an extra memory card or we couldn't make lil vids. 

Well I am still struggling with my schooling but I think I just won't worry about it as they always seem to get most of what they need.  

But for the Grace of God there go I.

Okayyyy would have been nice if I remembered to put captions on those.

Well they are as follows....top pic is my baby Candis and our baby Akita Kuma looking out wanting out actually with everyone else.  The next one is of my baby and my 15 year old.   She soooo loves her big bro.

Brrrrrrr winter finally made it here in the great state of Oklahoma!   Snow, freezing rain, wind, the works! lol. 

I hope you all are home and happy today nestled warm and snuggly in your little dwellings.

It's snowin

It's blowin! 

Well it's just a bit more than a dusting but any moisture is good these days what with all the fire danger and what not.   Now if in April we can get our rain......not tornados..........just lil rain and thunder......we'll be good.  

Other news.......Misty had 9 puppies last night! Can you say Awww?       But.............

our deal with our acre of land did not work out.   

But I know God has a reason for everything and we will keep on looking.  Actually I found some more places to look at with a lease purchase deal and better on the price.  So pray about that.  

I sure would love to move where it is safer.  Where I am not afraid for my kids to play outside.......where they can ride their bikes.  

I am still not done with the decluttering......ick....no fun.     But I trudge on.

Well baby is sleeping now so off to bed I go

I think that I am maybe starting back a so so rountine today.  The kids are as we speak doing school.  All of them accept oldest ds who is finsihed and he is playing a game and about to get a job.  ( fingers crossed and praying for him)   and 2nd oldelst ds who only wants to write , write , and write! lol.   I don't bug him to much as he has some talent going there.  Oh and he also likes to draw as do all my kids and they draw well.  DS #2 did get some math done so I didn't get after him too much.  

I am still decluttering so hopfully I will be done with that soon!  Ohhh gotta run as they are bringing me math to correct.   

See you all later.

Good morning all! 

 Well it is another unseasonaly warm day her in Oklahoma.  My husband who called in sick yesterday went to work this morning and was not happy about it.  He still felt icky to say the least and he will be gone all week.  To top it all off the signs that they loaded for him yesterday were loaded incorrectly and he had to drive back to the shop and reload them.  Eeeeks....he was so not in a good mood.

   I hope he doesnt' end up sick and down for a couple of weeks after this.  I told him to take it easy and he said.........easy doesn't get things done.  ( sigh) I guess he is  right. 

On the  upside Kuma is doing well and growing like a weed!  She was house broken in a week.............a week!!!! Isn't that just so cool??? She has the best personality and is always doing that talking thing that akitas tend to do when they are happy. 

Well I should be off and getting things done.  Have a good day all.

Wendy

There comes a time in our lives when we say......
should we do this or should we neih.

Should we give our babes cake for breakfast today?
We are behind on the laundry and dishes in the sink......
But I say it's no worse than donuts.......that is what I think.

P.J's for tops even when going out.
I say ......the kid' s fully dressed and that is all I care about.

Dinner in front of Dora so smart
hey two birds with one stone food for the brain
food for the heart!

Letting them veg on animal planet for hours on end.......kid will not move
yet?
Don't judge ..........that kid says he's gonna own a zoo and be a vet!

Bottom line is we love our sweet lads and lasses
and no one offers how to be a perfect mommy classes.


Wendy
Feb. 3 2006