Hello! Welcome to my blog! My name is Lynn and I am a HS/ SAHM. I write here about my daily happenings at home with my two darling sons. I hope that this blog will be a blessing to other Homeschool mothers and be a light for my Savior Jesus. So please pour yourself a cup of coffee and sit back and enjoy! Thank you for visiting!
Well, we got bad news from the doctor about Little One. He is backed-up again. We have to start him on Miralax today! We have to give him a full cap of the MIralax, 3 times today and have to continue this for like three days. Please, please pray for him if you get a chance. Like I said in my last post, we have been through this before and the last time he ended up in the hospital with a tube up his nose which is very painful. I REALLY pray that this does not end up the same way!!!!
*sigh* I really feel like I ask for WAY more than my share of prayers here. Little One has been complaining of these very vague tummy aches for a few months now. His doctor had already tried switching his Reflux medicine to see if it helped and it did not, so the doctor has ordered x-rays. If you have been reading this blog for a long time, you may remember we have already battled a bowel back-up once that resulted in Little One in the hospital with a tube up his nose. I REALLY PRAY he doesn't go through that again!!!!! It was HORRIBLE!!!!! The last time, we tried 4 clean outs at home (which were horrible enough!) before he got hospitalized. I REALLY pray it is not a bowel back-up. Please, if you think about it, please pray for the little guy that he doesn't have to endure this again and please pray that there is nothing really wrong or that it is something that can be overcome easily without a lot of pain to the little guy. He has already gone through enough in his life! Thank you in advance. I'll update as soon as I know something.
Hello All! I hope you had a great weekend! PC (our oldest child) was home overnight on Friday. Unfortunately, it was NOT one of our better visits with him. *sigh* On Saturday, we took the children to a Settler's Celebration which was really neat. The kids got to do a lot of hands on things that was pioneerish. They got to try a Native American game and play with some pioneer toys like a hoop and stick and walk on stilts. They got to press apples into cider with an old fashion press and then sample some of it. We took a wagon ride and then they got to pet the horses. PC even got up on one of them, but LO didn't want to. They got to watch a knife and tomahawk thrower hit targets and the guy explained a lot about it. They got to shave wood with an old tool. LO had lots of help from daddy!!! They got to make a toy like the pioneers had. It was one of those cups with a small ball tied to it that you try to get the ball into the cup. They also got to dip wax to make candles. It was a REALLY cool trip and the weather was lovely that day. The best part about it, it was FREE!!!! We paid a $5.00 parking donation and the rest of everything was free except food and trinkets. Even the activiites like candle dipping and toy making was FREE! LO wants to go back next year and I think we will definately try. I took lots of pictures, but I have not uploaded them yet. I hope to share some later this week. Sunday, Hubby started to try to fix our fence and we are kinda worried now. He couldn't get the posts to budge and they are cemented in. I really hope we don't have to hire someone to do it. Unfortunately, LO can't really play in the backyard until it's fixed because our neighbors have a big dog that is scared of strangers and doesn't know how to act with the little ones (LO and his friends) and they also have a pool that the little ones could get hurt on. So we are kinda bummed that this is going to be a lot harder job than it seemed. This week, I'm got a lot going on, but I will try to keep you posted! Have a great week!
Well, I had planned on writing a whole bunch about my experience over the last week, but I just can't get it all out. Every time I think of writing something, I realize I am forgetting something or skipping something and it just doesn't sound right! So, I'm going to keep my summary short and show a lot of pictures. The first several pictures are pictures of our backyard. We had a tree go down during the storm and crash through our fence. At first the damage didn't look too bad until Hubby started clearing the tree away from the fence!!! The other pictures are just random pictures that I took through out the area. Please keep in mind this is only a very small sampling of what all happened!!!! The damage was all across Cincinnati, Dayton, Columbus and beyond. I think it was something like 3 million people lost power in Ohio. This storm was HUGE! We were fortunate. We only lost a tree, part of a fence and food. There were trees that fell on houses and cars. There were people's houses that burned down. There were people who died in this. My mother has a friend who's elderly mother stepped into her doorway during the storm to see what was going on. She lost her balance due to the gusts and was thrown out. She tumbled head over heel. They don't know if she is going to make it or not. Luckily, most stories are not like that, but most people were effected in some way or other. There was roofs that were damaged, LOTS of trees and large branches down, guttering damaged, sheds destroyed. Quite a few people without power lived in rural areas. Many of them were on well water and they had no electricity for their water pumps. Some people were complaining about not being able to flush their toilets!!!! Many people's water heaters were electric, so they had no hot water. We were lucky because our water heater is gas and that did not go out. My parent's power was out for just slightly longer than ours and they did not have hot water. Poor PC had to take cold showers!!! There were also rumors flying around. News is REALLY hard to get when there is NO TV, internet and the local newspaper was damaged too and they had to print at another site and it was VERY limited. We heard rumors that the water pumps were being taxed and they may have to shut them down. I have know idea if that was true or not. Luckily, we never lost water. We also heard rumors that Dayton's water and several other communities water was not safe to drink. As far as I know there was only one community that had to boil their water. A few other places were on water restrictions. Like I said, it could have been worse. So, what did I do with myself? I got up, ate a couple Granola Bars (feed LO a Nutra Grain Bar) then got myself ready to leave. We spend a lot of the day (LO and I) hunting down news and getting food and supplies. I would go to the library to use their internet for an hour (or less), go out to lunch and go shopping for things like batteries, an oil lantern, and battery operated lanterns. The evenings would usually consist of going out to eat and then either shopping or going to something fun like a movie. Yep, we saw 3 movies during this time because we were so bored!!! I know, I know, we should have been reading!!! And yes, we did do that a lot, but let me tell you it is NOT as romantic as it seems!!!! Reading by flashlight is difficult and not to mention we had a real reality that we REALLY had to conserve batteries!!!! By Thurday, we realized our batteries were getting weak and it was next to impossible finding more. We had flashlights that used 6V batteries and everyone was sold out!!! Hubby finally found some, but they were about 2X the amount we had bought them for at Walmart. At over $6.00 a battery, lets just say, we weren't too eager to tear into them.
Update... After I wrote this, there was a report of yet another victim of the storm. A high school boy stepped into a roadway to avoid debris and was struck by a truck last week while on his way to school. Unfortunately, he died today (Thursday).
Did I say short summary???? Hummmmm...... Ok, here are the pictures....
Our Backyard
Moving stuff around
What was left standing
After more was removed
Another view
The branches spread out across our yard
After most of it has been cleaned up
After the trunk had been cut down
Random damage through the area
Branches on the ground
Tree fell over
Broken branches all over a yard
Tree Down
Lights out at a major intersection (Tuesday- 3 days after storm hit!)
Pole down
Gutter falling down
Branch hanging from tree (we saw this alot!)
Pile of branches waiting for the city to pick them up. (There are piles like this everywhere! Our pile was about 30 feet long and ranged from about 3 to 4 feet tall.)
Tree uprooted
Either a tree or a large branch down
Pole tore off and top part hanging
Transformer down
Tree Split
What we found laying in front of our van on the first night when we came out of a movie.
Traffic light tore in two
Beautiful weather we were having (a couple days after the storm)
The bags of food we had to throw out due to spoilage.
Hello! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend! This is going to be a short post, but I wanted to say "hello!". Friday, we finished up our first week of the new school year. Little One did very well. On Thursday we also had our first co-op day in 2 years. We took a 2 year break because we were just sooooo burned out (or I should say I was burned out). Little One LOVED it. This year I'm
trying not to pile so much into our schedule so I don't burn out again. That last year we were in co-op was ridiculous and I DON"T want to repeat it!!!! From what I can remember (it WAS 2 years ago, so I could be mistaken!!!) PC (my oldest) was in AWANAS on Wednesday night, Thursday co-op (most of the day), Thursday night basketball, Friday 4-H, Saturday basketball. That was the year Little One had his surgury and had to wear his brace for 7 1/2 months and so he had a lot of doctor visits and some PT (almost weekly we had at least 1 medical appointment). His surgeon that we had to see was in Cincinnati (60 miles away) and could take up to 3-5 hours for the doctor visit not including travel time. Plus everytime he broke his brace we had to drive to Cincy to get it fixed which was several times at least until I got smart and duct taped it. That was also the year that we started therapy (in Dayton) for PC and he saw a doctor regularly for his medicines in Cincinnati. All the while, I was homeschooling PC!!! When I think back on this time, I still shudder!!! My health was already bad, and I just went down fast during this time. So you can see why I say I DON"T want to over do it. On the other hand, Little One really does need to be involved in a few things, especially with his big brother not here right now. He loves his time with his mommy, but he does need interaction with others and getting him in a few activities is the answer for us. We are also going to check into basketball through our church this winter.
On Saturday, we took Little One and PC to see the new Star Wars cartoon at the theaters. It was kinda corny, but the kids LOVED it and that was important to us. We knew going into it, that it was made for children so we didn't mind that it didn't meet the normal Star Wars standards. We had some free movie passes, so the price was right!!!
Well, this ended up a little longer than I thought it would!!!! lol!!! I hope you all have a great week!
Prince Caspian is a very energetic, creative 12 year old. He enjoys Narnia, Star Wars, reading, and building with Legos. He excels at History and Science. Unfortunately, he suffers from ADHD and OCD and he is staying at his grandparent's house for awhile.
~Little One~
Little One is a very imaginative 6 year old, who loves Star Wars, Narnia, and Disney. He loves to play with small people and figures that he can make interact. Unfortunately, he has suffered from several physical issues, but he doesn't let them slow him down!
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