Happy Thanksgiving 2010

I'm still recovering from my gallbladder surgery, we won't be able to go to my Mom's for Thanksgiving this year, so we are spending it at home! I'm not sure if I'll be able to eat any turkey... and no black Friday shopping for me either... oh well.

Happy Thanksgiving anyways!!!

Gall Bladder Surgery

My gallbladder is finally out!! I went in at 6:15 AM, came home around 11:20 AM. I've been taking pain meds every 4 hours. It's been helping! The only things I've had to eat are saltines and water, no, I don't mind :)

I had a very good night sleep! My Dh has been AMAZING! taking care of me... I keep forgetting I can't be picking up after the kids... he keeps reminding me:)

Thanking God for taking care of me!!! I just took some pain meds.... starting to feel a bit sleepy. Will post more later.

School Week 14 2010

This week we will attempt to row the books The Hatmaker's Sign with A8 and This is the Feast with X6. I said attempt because the boy is sick, I have an early doctor's appointment on Wednesday and may have others, and we are going to see a Shakespeare play on Friday. Next week is Thanksgiving week which means no school the whole week.

My gall bladder needs to come out and on Wednesday I get to find out when that is going to happen. Dh wants it to happen the week after Thanksgiving, but that would put XMas in jeorpady. I wanted it to happen last week, yes we'll miss Thanksgiving but at least we'll have XMas... but of of curse it is out of my hands... unless I decided to eat lots of high fat, fried food and get an attack and then he will have no choice but to take it out that same day :) No chance of that happening.. nooo way.. ha ha!!

Truth is I just want to get this over with. I'm getting a little anxious about the surgery and of course the after surgery "how is my stomach going to react to certain foods" dilemma. I have heard many different things about the surgery but everybody agrees you just don't know what's going to affect you till you eat it.

Not sure I want to find out while at a XMas party away from home... having to spend 30 minutes in somebody's bathroom is not my idea of a fun holiday..

I have decided to trust my Dhs' judgment on this one and let him take care of me.

As far as school goes, A8 is DONE with Beta! She will be taking her final test today, no math for the rest of the week. We may start Gamma after Thanksgiving week, of course not knowing when my gall bladder surgery is going to take place I'm not sure if I should just wait till January to start Gamma as originally planned.

This is going to be one of those "we will just have to wait and see" weeks... ohhh joy...

All Hallows Eve Pics!

I finally moved all of the Halloween pics to my computer!! So here they are!!!

Cleopatra

Toothless

At light the night at our Church.

Hot chocolate and cookies!

The Youth group did a skit for light the night!

We had a great time that night, the weather was perfect, although it did get a bit breezy the later it got. The kids stayed at the church most of the time and it showed in their candy bags. They had enough candy for two days only... usually we have Halloween candy all winter.. ha ha!!

Where there is smoke, there is Fire!

This morning as the kids and I were outside looking for leaves and mud and sticks to make a nest we heard all these sirens... the scary thing was they kept getting closer and closer... we were in the back yard and then we saw them... three firetrucks coming down our street. I thought there was a fire in the elementary school across from our street.

It was actually one of our neighbors house. The kids and I ran down as she was taking her little animals out of the house. She seemed pretty shook up, she had just come home from work. I believe cigarettes were involved, but thank God it was only smoke, the fire started in the garage. The rest of the house was covered in smoke.. NOT fire!

School Week 13 2010

This week A8 is rowing the book The Hickory Chair. A story about a boy who has been blind since birth, and his beloved Gran. When Gran dies and her will divulges that she has hidden notes "for each of my favorite people in one of my favorite things," the boy relies on his keen insight into his grandmother to find many of the notes.

This is a wonderful book and we finally get to read it!



X6 is rowing County Fair, one of the books in My First Little House Book Series. I'm going to be using the Almanzo books for X6, I thought reading about a boy in a farm in New York state will be more interesting to X6 than reading about Laura and the Prairie. Plus the story takes place in the Fall!

School Week 12 2010

It is November... I can't believe how fast these months are going... It is raining here and the kids are sound asleep.. I don't have the heart to wake them up :) Which means school is going to run a little late today.

This week we are rowing the books The Gullywasher and Henry the Castaway. The Henry books were out of print which is why I never rowed them with A8, but they are now available again! I just got mine in the mail Tuesday!

At the beginning of the week I had a couple of doctor appointments and had to have some tests done, we didn't get much school done because of it. We are now caught up!

A8 has a couple more weeks of Math U See Beta and she will be DONE!! We are going to be able to start Gamma earlier than planned! X6 is doing very good with Reading Made Easy, we are doing lots of reviews and I'm introducing news words very slowly. It can be a bit frustrating since he has a tendency to try and guess what the word says rather than just trying to read it, but when that happens I change my approach and it seems to work... this is going to be a long road for the both of us, at least till his little brain is able to connect all the dots...