My day (coming up!)

Good Morning! Last week wasn't too bad of a neck breaker and this week looks to be less hectic as well. I like those weeks and days, but some days are worse than others, like today!

5:00 am - wake up - wash face
5:10 am - spend time with God and prayer
6:30 am - spend time on computer answering all those emails and blogging
7:00 am - wake kids, get dressed, make bed
7:15 am - breakfast
7:30 am - put face on (makeup) and get hair done
7:50 am - start printing and packing back packs and gettting everything ready for Enrichment
8:30 am - walk out the door and go to enrichment
9:00 am - OT class to teach (5 kids)
10:00 am - Homeschool Board Meeting & Picture day for the kids
11:00 am - sign language class (3 kids)
12:15 pm - go to boys & girls club and kids participate in Mock Vote
1:00 pm - drop books off at the library and head home
1:30 pm - eat lunch
2:00 pm - do school (math, reading, science, & latin)
4:00 pm - Couple to pick up kids and take them to eat and Upwards Celebration at 6:00
4:30 pm - start to get ready for pastor appreciation dinner tonight at 6:00
5:30 pm - walk out door with hubby to dinner
6:00 - 8:00 - attend dinner
8:30 - home and kids come home after being spoiled by couple
8:30-9:00 - showers, bedtime snuggles, and prayer and kids to bed
9:00 - 10:00 - Hubby and I visit finally from all day and take our sleeping pills and wait for them to kick in.
somewhere around 9:30 - 10:00 fall asleep
5:00 am - wake up again and do it all over! (except with different stuff!)

Yes, we have a busy day today!

Beauty & the Martian & Hummer Salesman

Happy Fall Festival (no I don't like Happy Halloween!) Thought you would enjoy the pictures of the kids in their costumes for our annual Fall Festival. Isabella is "Belle" from Beauty and the Beast, Sarah is a Martian wearing her MARS outfit from the robot contest and Martian antenaes, and Zech is nothing really (he doens't like to dress up) but we dubbed him the Hummer salesman since his shirt had a Hummer on it! He like that idea. We had fun, ate way too much candy!

Six for the Road

Have you seen this TLC show? We happened to catch it last night on accident but it was interesting to say the least (at least to us). This family, who homeschools, actually sold their house and bought an RV and they are traveling to all fifty states (not sure how they will make it to Hawaii) and truly educating their children on the wonders of God's glories He has bestowed upon the US. They have two teenage daughters and two very active boys. Last night the show was on dissecting a frog and how their daughters didn't want to and the boys did. They had also stopped somewhere to run a fireworks stand for 12 days and the hardships on this effort were tremendous. I'm not sure how they survive, but somehow they are doing it and adjusting with all of it.

I'm fairly sure I couldn't do this but it intrigued me. We want to take a trip to Washington DC next fall and I've been planning that road trip. However that will be a 2 week adventure at the most and not a whole years worth of planning to go to. The adventure they will experience is so much more than a classroom could ever teach them. The mom is still doing their core subjects and such but going above and beyond the call of duty by giving them a hands on experience of so many things families just don't get to explore. Just thought I would let some of you know what you could watch on TV if you really had some time in the evening to just watch (doesn't happen very often in this household).

Calm before the Storm

Robotics is over and my huge ladies event is done, Upwards has one more week and we are in a calm period of time. That doesn't necessarily mean we don't have a lot to do, we just have less work outside the house and less meeting in the evenings. What it does mean is that we have to buckle down with our school work, get to cleaning our house (it really has been left to itself these past 6 weeks!), and get ready to start thinking about the holidays.

However this week, although I will clean and we will get some school done, I'm going to rest. I'm going to maybe read a book, take a nap, go shopping because I want to, and more. Today, well enrichment continues, and then we will head home to clean up what looks to be a Tornado that hit the inside of my house. We have a few weeks before Upwards Basketball starts up along with Isabella's birthday, Thanksgiving, going to Granny's 90th Birthday party, Zech's Birthday, and then Christmas. All that coupled with parties, shopping, and school, well lets just say the storm will hit again and I will be busy continuously from here on out.

My Lord sustains me and keeps reminding me to focus on Him and what really matters and that is what I am continually doing! He matters and showing the world His glory!

We Won Third in NT Best Award!

I cannot tell you how proud we as home educator parents are for our children! They have worked so very hard the last six weeks in preparing for this competition. There are two sets of awards given out for this competition. One is for the actual Robots and its driving and although in the Semi finals our drivers actually got us into first place (Sarah and Caleb!) our finals round didn't go very well and we placed fourth! However 4th from 14 teams is awesome still and therefore we are still very proud. Although as the judges announced those, they come to a point where they say, the robotics challenge is great and all that is not why they do this competition. They do it because they want to see schools come together in an effort for teamwork, best sportmanship, and spirit. Therefore they place the NT BEST Award higher than the actual Robotic award and we were given 3rd place in that award and Wow how spectacular that is! I am so very proud of my three! They did their work seriously on top of all the schoolwork they had! Mom didn't slack off very much during this six weeks and so we are still ahead of the game and doing our BEST! Go Home Educators Around Texoma (HEAT!), you all did a wonderful job!

You Tube Video of our MARS Team

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8cH6uFsza4


Click on the above post and it will take you to our video for our MARS Team. The kids did such an awesome job!

Friday Fotos!

Pray for the MARS Team and Sarah our driver (all the drivers & mechanics & rack transporter (Zech is one!), competition is Tomorrow (October 25th, starting at 9:00) We have to be there at 7:30 am which means we leave here at 5:00 am! Woohoo! Go, Mars, Go!!!!!