Someday...

Someday my husband will get me a computer I can use during the day while he's working...and then I'll be able to blog again...someday ;)

*I wonder how long it will take for him to see this...

Field Trip to the vet

No for real.  An actual field trip to the vet.  Not a lame, 'we're taking our dog to the vet so we might as well drag all the kids and count it as a field trip cause we're homeschoolers', field trip. :)  The kids had a lot of fun, and I was impressed by how much the vet showed them.   She did an exam on this poor old dog, who was completely good natured and like a dog should be.  He even stood there while all the kids listened to his heart with the stethoscope.

Now this cat on the other hand...not so good natured.  Note that it is practically in a head lock.

I can't imagine why it wasn't happy....

They got to see a spotted gecko

They also got to look at Xrays, look at a flea under a microscope and see ticks and worms in specimen jars, and we got to walk by while a dog was getting his teeth cleaned.  It was a nice trip, I'm impressed with this vet for sure!  She did great with the kids and even gave them goody bags with crayons, stickers, and fruit chews!

Busy Days!

Turns out it is very hard to keep up on blogging when your husband works from home and needs the computer all day!  We are keeping busy and warm...for the most part.  Our furnace recently broke around 9am on a Monday morning...and Simon was leaving for work for 3 days at 5 am on Tuesday morning.  Not great timing!  We had a new system put in on Tuesday, but it wasn't able to run until around 4pm.  So no heat from Monday morning to Tuesday afternoon made for a very cold house!  I was kind of jealous that Caelin got to go to co-op for a few hours (after a delayed start b/c of low temps), at least she got to be warm!  Other than that, we survived our 3 days without daddy but were sure glad to see him when he got home!  I think poor Connor has only been to preschool twice since mid December!  After Christmas break, he has missed two weeks worth because it is just so stinkin' cold!  Speaking of cold...I now regret agreeing to potty the neighbor's dog.  Sure, its easy money and all fun and games when the weather is nice.  But right now?  Yeah.  Not worth it.  AT ALL.  Especially because I'm pretty sure that dog could hold it all day.  So that is a brief update.  Surviving the cold and Simon's work travels, trying to get back into the swing of 'school' after Christmas break (poor homeschoolers' don't get snow days or shortened days for cold temps) thinking about school options for next year, oh...and we started Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace University.  So we're supposed to budget and stuff.  We already try to budget, but I think this is going to take it to a whole different level.  Probably to a level where I need to actually stick to the budget.

You've got to be kidding me.

Caelin is doing Upward Cheerleading this winter.  I'm not so sure about the whole cheer thing...but I think its good that she is branching out and trying something besides CYT.  So her first practice she comes home with these:

These are her pom poms.  Seriously.  No, for real.  I had to sit there and separate and twist all of these little plastic ribbon type thingies.  By hand.

It took forever.

But its done.  I don't know if its right...but whatever.  I can't be the only mom who didn't know what she was doing/waited too long to get started and was scrambling to get them done before the next practice.  And so far...I don't think she's loving the cheer thing.  Of course we don't even watch sports so I don't think she even totally 'gets' it.  Not that I want her watching what the 'professional' cheerleaders do...since I don't think it has much at all to do with cheering anymore.  I'm thinking that maybe once they actually start doing games, she might think that is exciting.

Trick or Treat! Kinda late...

Puppy Shaming #2

Puppies are over rated.  Cats don't do things like this.   I owe the library way too much money.

Awana Grand Prix

So, these things are for the kids, right?  No.  Not at all.  They gave us our kits months in advance...which we thought was odd.  Until Simon actually tried to start working on it a few weeks before the race.  And we realized we were in trouble.  The only part the kids can do or help with is the painting.  For real.  And you need tools and stuff to make these cars. We won't talk about what we ended up spending so we could buy equipment to make these silly cars.  But its an investment...all 3 kids will do this so we have years of Grand Prix races to 'look forward' to.

Early attempt...not going well

As you can see.

Just look at Caelin helping Dad on the car!  Oh wait.  She's just eating Halloween candy.

Desperate times call for desperate measures!  Cheyanne's nail grinder was sacrificed for the cause.

In the end we decided to try and preserve the nail grinder and ordered an official dremmel (?) to work on the next one.  This one was given to Connor.

The only part the kids can actually do.

Race day!  Caelin's is #7 on the left.  She named her car, "The Chet".  Connor's car is on the right.  He named it, "The Off Button".  Yep.  No idea.  But he named it.

Race time!

Watching their cars finish!

Caelin ended up placing 7th overall at the end of the day.  Not bad.  Not bad at all.