It was family, and one other child. I find that 1 other child pretty annoying, but then I have for as long as I’ve known him.

It was nice to hang out and chat for awhile, as I hadn’t seen the family in several weeks.

I have to get laundry folded and put away, and I’d like to get my room all cleaned up and organized, but I don’t know if I will get that far or not. I’m not feeling all that great today, and we have another busy week ahead of us….

We’ve had rain, and wind, but that’s it. No tornados here…The wind hasn’t even been what I would call severe, although I’m glad I wasn’t out driving last night!! Rain has been more of the down-pour variety, instead of what I would classify as severe. No booming thundering, or startling lightening.

I tried logging in to my email, and using the messenger from there, but it has disappeared. How weird everything is tonight!!!!

I also got a new steam cleaner. My old steam cleaner was on it’s last legs. *LOL* It made horrible clunking and squealing noises the last time I used it. It was close to being 10 years old anyway, so I can’t complain. I’m excited to have my new one, and can’t wait to try it out!!!

As you read in the previous entry we are going to be trying a new therapy with Dad in hopes of avoiding back surgery. He’s already had surgery once and we aren’t looking forward to it again, for many reasons. We have an appointment set up for him to see a surgeon, but in the meantime we are going to try acouple of different things, in hopes that we can cancel the appointment with the surgeon.

Does anyone have any experience with Inversion Therapy using an inversion table?? We are also looking into that with hopes that it will work to help Dad.

Anyway, I know that it’s not much of an update about life, but perhaps another time I can sit and write a better update. Right now I’m off to another blog to do some more work.

We aren’t done yet, we have about another 10 weeks until the end, but I did all the figures tonight, and if we stay on schedule, we will complete TWO years of curriculum in everything except Language!!!!! Can you believe it???

What’s even more awesome is to see how much they have both learned and improved on!!!! Both of them have improved on their reading so much it’s unbelievable!!! Both have improved in their handwriting, but Megan’s improvement is so much so that you would think someone else did the writing!!! They both have had so much fun learning so much about history and science, which is something that is not taught much around here.

Spelling used to bug me sooooo much when we started out, because I would have to spell almost EVERY word they needed for a sentence, now they are able to spell so many of the words.

They are not at all behind in Language either, even though we will only be completing one year of language curriculum…..The language books are big books, filled to the brim with lots of new information. The parts of a letter, how to write a friendly letter, antonyms, synonyms, homonyms, subjects, predicates, nouns, pronouns, verbs, and the list goes on and on.

It’s just amazing to me the progress my girls have made, and I am so happy and proud!!! Another 10 weeks, and then a well deserved break!!!

I have already started planning for next year, and have already ordered a little of the curriculum. We will be throwing in some computer and typing classes, and a new health curriculum, but the core subjects will be from the same company for sure!!!

I really miss him. He was fun, and never minded hanging out with his girl cousin. *LOL* We’d play basketball, and walk around town together. We’d play his game system, and just hang out. We were friends. And then life changed. I went my way, and he went his, and we never talked anymore.

Well he got in touch with me again. The first time in over 12 years. It’s really sad to think of all that lost time. When I received his first letter I was shocked, when I received the second, I was pleased. Now I’m looking for the third. We’ve both made a lot of mistakes in life, and I think that is what will bring us closer together again. Waiting for the letter is a killer though. I look for it every day, hoping and praying it will be there.

Miss you cousin dear.

We get home and I find that my dinner plans aren’t going to work, because the meat didn’t thaw, so I’m trying to come up with a plan when Dad calls and says I need to pick him up at 3:30….well of course that didn’t work, so we made alternate plans….the girls and I take care of our business in town, go to pick up Dad and then go back to town to eat dinner. When we get home I did manage to get most of the laundry caught up.

Things have been and will be so busy for awhile yet, that I need to get this work done while I have the chance, and yet I also just want some time at home to relax.

Major housecleaning is in order too, since we’ll have visitors next weekend. I hate when they come into a messy house, so there’s several things I want to get done to help get it straightened up a little. Perhaps it’s vain of me, but it’s how I am.

I do think I’m going to skip out on the rest of my work for now, and just relax a little. Then perhaps I will feel more inclined to do something needed.