Glasses

My mom used to say that she and my dad figured their kids would need glasses, braces and narrow shoes.

Well, my husband and I were expecting our kids to need glasses. As you can see in the photos our two oldest now have glasses. They don't need them all the time since they are both near-sighted. But, they will have them for school - so they can see across the classroom.

Three Things

So one of my college friends is an avid blogger http://lovingourhomeschool.blogspot.com/
She tagged me to do a "meme". I'm not sure what that is but I think I'm supposed to finish theses "three things" statements. So, here goes...

Three things...

that scare me: that I might hurt one of my kids (I was stopped at a stop sign the other day - ready to make a right turn and I let off the brake and rear ended the car in front of me - I thought he'd already gone - things can happen so quickly - there was no damage to either vehicle but boy it shook me up), not being in control (the older kids start public school in August and I won't be there), trying to think of another thing but everything seems to fit under not being in control...

that I love: God's grace, my husband and the fact that he's an involved dad, my kids - especially when they laugh

that I hate: poverty, abortion, when families are destroyed by divorce

that I'm doing right now: typing, listening to my kids, breathing

that I can do: laundry, dishes, read

that I can't do: fly an airplane, knit, drive a semi

that are my absolute favorite foods: chocolate, bread, potato soup

that I watched on TV when I was a kid: Mr. Rodgers, 3-2-1 Contact, Captain Kangaroo

Good Morning

What a cute little paleontologist. The little guy was digging at The Children's Museum of Indianapolis. I'm so glad we have a membership so that we can go often and leave when the kids start to get cranky or I'm tired. I get tired a lot. I think I need to get more iron or maybe it's more sleep I need.

Today my husband's mom is here so we are going to drive around and look at houses that are for sale. They (my in-laws) are planning to move down from Michigan in the next year or so.

Well, it's 6:50 and the kids (who are already awake) are allowed to get up at 7 AM so I'd better go curl my hair and get ready for breakfast.

Hope all of you who read my blog have a great summer!

Party Time

Tea Party.

Swimming Party.

School is out.

Time for summer fun.

Around here...

Here's a picture from our recent trip to Michigan. I'm on the far right. The four kids are mine and the other guys in the picture are my brothers. Yea! The kids like their uncles.

Right now...

I'm home with the little one (now 20months old).

Not sure what's wrong.

He's had a fever off and on since Thursday afternoon.

He's had a rash come and go on his legs and neck.

He's a little grumpy and doesn't seem to have a huge appetite.

He hasn't been sleeping well and neither have I (ha ha ugh!).

He's rubbed his ears some but not a lot.

He has a bit of a cough, runny nose and sneezes from time to time.

And the drool - he's been chewing on the pacifier and drooling a lot.

I suppose I'll call the doctor and take him in this week. And, she will probably say it's a virus and he should have plenty of liquids.

What else is going on here? Let's see...

Friday morning I got all four kids ready to go on some errands. 8:45AM, Everyone was strapped into the van ... it wouldn't start. My husband came home and tried to start it - no go. So AAA towed it to our mechanic and Friday afternoon when they checked it out. Guess what. It started right up. So, I guess I wasn't supposed to take the kids anywhere Friday morning. Thankfully we have AAA and the mechanic didn't charge us anything.

We were very thankful this week to have a roof over our heads. There's been a lot of rain here in Indiana. Thankfully the drainage around our home is working well (husband's company did the site plan for our subdivision). We just had to detour around a couple spots in town because of flooding. The river is really high.

A couple of weeks ago we got a fishing pole. There's a retention pond behind our house. Our oldest son has decided he likes fishing. It's a great sport for someone who doesn't like to rush and likes to sit and think - that's our son.

We signed up for summer reading at the local library. Our red headed six year old girl has really been reading up a storm. From March to May, she read about 15,000 pages. She's read lots of picture books and chapter books. She's especially enjoyed the Chronicles of Narnia, Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Mandie series, Magic Tree House books, and Encyclopedia Brown. Every afternoon at our house we have "rest time" from 1:30 - 3:30 (the older two read and the younger two nap). Her comment a couple of weeks ago was "I don't want to go to public school because I won't be able to read as much." I tried to assure her that she'll still have time to read and that she'll enjoy making new friends.