Cosmetics

As most of us know, ladies must have lots of cosmetics. Well, one little lady sometimes has trouble keeping one little brother out of her cosmetics. For some unknown reason he likes to eat them. Strange Child! Anyway, we think we may have fixed the problem. Doubt it, but hey we can try. Leah has been wanting to learn to sew, so today she had her first real sewing lesson. I didn't get any pictures of her sewing, I was paying to much attention to my fingers. Here is her finished project, it will be hung on the wall in her room.

Crayon Roll and Purse

These days are restless days! I spend too much time online while working with the munchkins in school. If I'm not in the school room, neither are they. Anyway, I ran across a blog that had these crayon rolls a lady had made. (Caleb is forever busting the bottom of his crayon box out, and then there are crayons all over the floor.) So, I thought I would give them a try. That got the creative juices flowing, and I made me a purse. Hopefully, when Leah comes home she can pick out some material and we will work on her a purse! Now, I HAVE to go study for my class. Pray that this stuff will stick in my head. So far, most of it has gone OVER my head!

Roll making 'venture

A couple of weeks ago, I got this craving, and surprisingly I haven't had too many cravings this time. (Hubby would disagree!) Anyway, I was craving Maw Yates' yeast rolls. Well, the only person I know that makes these rolls is Becky, and she is only 31/2 hours away, and these rolls are not just something you whip up. Having good intentions I bought the ingredients about a month ago, and they have just sat in the pantry. I'm not a baker! Tuesday, the cravings got the best of me. I got out my recipe, that I had thanks to Becky, and got to work. Caleb once again was my helper as Leah was busy with violin practice. This is one complex recipe, you have to scald milk, melt your shortening on the stove, then it has to be refrigerated overnight. Much to one little boy's dismay. (Crazy kid actually licked the beaters!) Yesterday morning, I was greeted with the wonderful smell of yeasty bread when I opened the fridge. (Good thing too, I would have forgotten!) While the kids were gone to the nursing home I started the kneading and rolling out process. Well, I have decided if I'm going to make these again, I'm going to have to start lifting weights. And I've also figured out why they used BIG rolling pins and not the little ones from pampered chef! I get them cut out, brushed with butter, pinched closed, and the waiting game started again. Now, they must rise again. I finally got impatient with the first batch and we had them for lunch. Needless to say, they are better after they rise, but the first batch was yummy. The kids loved them, Leah especially. I'm hoping this is a tradition I can pass on to her and she can pass on to her kids. While doing all this I couldn't help think of a special lady. She fixed these rolls for every family gathering. She fixed them for our rehearsal dinner. (I can't imagine how many recipes she had to fix for that one.) And I can remember her sending extra ones with Jan when they would come visit us. She was one special lady! I wish I had thought of doing this sooner, maybe she could have given me some tips. Thanks so much Maw Yates, we love and miss you!

Dare Devils

Saturday was cleaning day around here! We actually got a lot done! Amazing! Anyway, by the evening the kids were all ready to skip ship and so they went out to play. (I think I've finally found a way to make them go outside without having to MAKE them go out. But SHHHHH don't tell them!) Well, as I was walking through the house putting away laundry, I saw my little dare devil shimmying up the basketball pole. I walked out to where he was, and the first thing he said was "Did I scare ya, Mom?". Well, I wasn't scared, this was a minor incident. He tells me he was wanting to hang from the rim. Now, you may ask, "Why would a five year old want to hang from a basketball rim?" This is my answer....
Jonathan wants to be Kobe Bryant!!

Yeah!

Hey, I hope this works. I've been trying to get this thing on here all day! I'm just sooo dumb when it comes to this blogging stuff. Maybe one of these days I'll figure it out!

ADD

As most of you know Caleb is a very active little boy! Understatement! If he were in a public school, they would label him as ADD and want to put him on drugs. Really, he is a very bright little boy who has endless energy. He is doing very good in school, he can read and loves to be challenged in everything except penmanship. Not his favorite subject! Since he is soooo active I'm trying to come up with ways to keep him occupied, and hopefully we can channel all this energy into something good. Here is my latest project for him. Peach cobbler, Yum!! This next one is when he gets all of his energy out!

Baby Bump 251/2 weeks

Okay, It has taken me almost 2 weeks to post these, but here are the latest baby bump pictures. No laughing please, and Laura I DO have a bump! (More like a mound right now!)

Explanations

Okay, here goes, since I've been pregnant, the kids have had some doozie questions. I have given them very vague answers, so it has just brought on more questions. On the way home from lessons tonight I started listening to their conversation they were having in the back seat. (I often tune out their conversations!) Anyway, they were talking about when the penguins brought the baby. I said, "What?". Jonathan speaks up and says, "oh, not the penguins those long legged birds!" "The stork?" I replied. "Yeah, that's it!" was their reply. How storks got turned into penguins I'll never know, but it made me chuckle!

Everything went good!

Sorry, I didn't get back on here yesterday. Me and the couch had a 2 hour appointment! Little Miss Tabitha had me up most of the night on Tuesday so by the time school was out I was wiped out! She is sooo active! We started school at 8am and took one 15 min. break and amazingly we were finished by lunch. It won't be that way every day as the boys videos will get more involved, but it was a good first day. Caleb and Leah have enough seatwork to keep them busy while I'm helping the other one. Pray that God will give me the endurance to be able to keep up with everything. I have less than fourteen weeks to go before the baby is due and I'm hoping to get as much done as possible.

Today's the day!

Yep, today we start another year of school! Right now, the kids are in Bible class with Mr. Howle. He is such a good teacher! He gets right down on the kids level to where even Caleb can understand. Jonathan and Seth are on videos this year. So, I'm hoping to have a easy year, if you can call homeschooling four kids and having newborn easy. I'm excited, I think I'll be able to spend more time working with Caleb and Leah on things we have skipped this year. The first few weeks are nothing but review so I'm going to use this time to work on different things. If everything goes good, I'm hoping to be done teaching by 1 or 2 in the afternoon. Last year we went until 4:30 almost every day. It was some really long days. Well, I must go now they are finished with Bible for the day. I'll try to post later on how it went.