The past week has flown by. We have shown our house 4 times but unfortunately no one has shown interest in buying it.
Jennifer leaves for church youth camp tomorrow (Tuesday) morning. She always has so much fun at camp. She will be gone till Saturday. Next month she will be going to Youth Conference, she is very excited about that because this will be the first year she is old enough (14 years old) to go. I loved the theme, "Book of Mormon Adventure". I think it sounds like so much fun. It reminds me of some of the exciting book of mormon novels that LDS authors have written.
My family website idea is a great hit so far. The kids work on their sites almost everyday. Jennifer wants hers to be further along before she publishes it but Adam is publishing his work as he goes. It is quite interesting to sit back and see the things they are interested in. I really like it because I have had some great insights into their personalities.
Yesterday I started reading "Little House in the Big Woods" to Rachel. I thought it would be a fun book because of pioneer day in July. I was a little reluctant to start a long chapter book with her because she just turned five and I didn't think she would be able to sit long enough to enjoy it but I was wrong and am very happy I gave it a try because she loves it. We read one chapter yesterday and two today, the Little House on the Prairie books are pretty exciting. I even caught the two older kids listening a few times.
I thought it would be a fun activity to make butter in a jar out of whipping cream and home made bread. I remember when I was little making homemade butter and spreading it on bread for a fun pioneer activity.
Monday, June 18, 2007
Sunday, June 10, 2007
Just Thinking
The kids are all in bed and now I can sit down and give this blogging a try. I have dabbled very lightly in blogging using my yahoo360 site but I think I will use this one to just talk about what life is like being me. Wife to a last semester law student who is going on for his specialty law degree (LLM) in sunny Florida this August. And home schooling mother of five, only three of them are school age.
Our house is on the market and waiting for someone to buy it. We are supposed to be moving to Florida the end of July so our house needs to sell FAST. I think I need to go back to Home Depot tomorrow and buy some more flowers to spruce up the yard, brighter colors this time, maybe pink. The other flowers I planted looked so cute in the flats but they were very little purple, blue and white flowers and they seem to blend in to much with the grass that butts up against them so back I go find brighter flowers to accent the others. This kind of thing is hard for me because I like more muted earth tones but muted tones look too drab with outside flowers. Oh well, The kids and I will have a great time planting more flowers. Rachel 5, and Joseph 3, get so exited for any chance to get their hands dirty and their feet wet. It will be fun!
For our home school summer project the kids and I are putting together a family web site. I am excited because it will give the kids a chance to learn how to use the Internet to post their interests on their own web site and maybe get some blogging in. I think our family back home will love to read about what the older kids (Jennifer 14, Adam 11,) are doing and what they are interested in. I also think it will be a great place to put lots of pictures of the three younger kids.
Our house is on the market and waiting for someone to buy it. We are supposed to be moving to Florida the end of July so our house needs to sell FAST. I think I need to go back to Home Depot tomorrow and buy some more flowers to spruce up the yard, brighter colors this time, maybe pink. The other flowers I planted looked so cute in the flats but they were very little purple, blue and white flowers and they seem to blend in to much with the grass that butts up against them so back I go find brighter flowers to accent the others. This kind of thing is hard for me because I like more muted earth tones but muted tones look too drab with outside flowers. Oh well, The kids and I will have a great time planting more flowers. Rachel 5, and Joseph 3, get so exited for any chance to get their hands dirty and their feet wet. It will be fun!
For our home school summer project the kids and I are putting together a family web site. I am excited because it will give the kids a chance to learn how to use the Internet to post their interests on their own web site and maybe get some blogging in. I think our family back home will love to read about what the older kids (Jennifer 14, Adam 11,) are doing and what they are interested in. I also think it will be a great place to put lots of pictures of the three younger kids.
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