Teacher?

Today was a classic homeschooling issue for me....who's the teacher?Duchess was working on phonics, specifically blended sounds in big words. Words such as conscience, exhibition, shark, direction, shampoo and smash. Four pages of such words. The goal was to cut out all the pictures and match them to the words after tracing and writting the words. She cut them all out and put them in tidy, very OCD rows.Then she sounded each out (some with a little help) and promptly matched up the words.Until she got to smash.....to fully appreciate this conversation please note that my seven year old has quite...

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A Day in the Life of the "Griswalds" aka Us

So today was a typical "do or die" day in the life of our family, which I think I shall refer to us as the Griswalds. It seems proper since I shy away from revealing our last name. (Makes it harder for the devil to find me, lol)So Dave is in crane prep for his national crane license. He's working sun up to sun down literally working on his practicals so he can blow it out of the water, typical husband of mine. I love ambition in a man, it's freaking hot. And he's freaking hot if I may wonder from the subject at hand, opps sorry.Moving on, so he was up at sunrise and heading out to the school for...

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Watch This......

Since I'm into my senior level classes, it means proctored final exams! So Dave and I hit up the local library where I'd arranged for the head librarian to proctor us (that just sounds nasty doesn't it) and let the kiddos hang our in the kids section. We have a total of 4 hours to take the 50 question exams. It took me 2 hours exactly to make 98%. Go me.........kick some HR Management ass!And now I need a big ole HR management ass nap! Back later with updates and dee...

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Damn FB Games

When you have time on your hands, it easy to get distracted by facebook games. I've done mafia wars, got bored. I did farmville, got bored. I tried cafeworld, got bored. Social life, still giving it a go. However, Kingdom of Camelot and me are likey likey. I am a medevil queen! And I'm running this thing, been bumped up to running an alliance that I joined the other day. It's all about world domination............I so got this.........and I so got to get a life......help me ple...

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We R Griswald

My life is never boring, never ever ordinary, never predictable, and frankly I am so thankful. It blows me away when I look around sometimes and see people going about their lives in a rut. Cause I've been there and it was for a reason, the Lord knew what I needed and when so once my surgery was done, my three years in Utah was revealed to me and I totally understood what it was I was suppose to do there. And why I was there for so long. But can I just say hello! My life is back on track: unpredictable, out of the ordinary, and full.Love it!So it shouldn't surprise me when things go awry, but...

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A Tale for All Parents

So we left Texas in the late evening, intent on driving straight through to Oklahoma to visit my inlaws and our favorite lake. So we did just that. Murphy napped, the kids watched tv and I read by flashlight (don't hate on me, I have to read when I can) and Dave drove. It was quite uneventful until we hit Muskogee, Ok.Then I had to call up my bank and make sure I had enough cash on hand to bail out my husband.Cause I was just sure that he was gonna:A. Kill someone with his bare handsorB. Shoot them point blank between the eyes with his gun that is always in his waistbandAnd frankly I was all for...

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Break Out

What do you do when you get restless and live in an RV....and your man gets a 3 day weekend?You hit the road for a little vacay.Will report deets and pics on Monday, we're enjoying Grand Lake this weekend y'all.Be safe and don't talk to strangers!Love,...

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For My Viewing Pleasure...

Showtime has decided to graciously heed my hate mail warnings and bring back "united states of tara" (hello multiple personalities!) and Nurse Jackie (hysterical and gory, like someone i.e. me falling down the stairs and laughing while it hurts).Thank you Showtime!More to watch after my school is done when the kids are in b...

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What 2 Do at 3 am?

One thing about being sick is that I never get the sleep I need when I need it. Sun and Mon night I was up till 2 am. Last night, I went to bed early but was up at 330 am. I get the sinus headache and no pills on earth help so I read with my ereader on the largest print zoom and chill.However, this morning I watched this season's episodes of The Good Wife. I'm hooked on this show. Maybe since once upon a time I was a pre-law major, maybe cause I love a good argument, but I love this show as it has the law stuff as well as the family dynamics. That said, I think Peter (aka Mr. Big) is a sleeze...

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Dudes,

I have the black plague, seriously dragging. I have facial seepage.........how disguisting is that crap......my tear ducts are seeping, my nose is seeping and my ears are totally plugged. I'm dying and I'm cranky as shit. Warning........However, I did manage to get my teach on today. We had a full day of school and the kiddos did great. So proud of my babies!!!!Back when the seepage stops and I don't feel like running over strangers with my c...

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Dear Idiot:

Thank you for taking your sick sorry arse out into public with that horrible cold. Thank you for then breathing on something in the vicinity of me. You thoughtless jerk.Love Sincerely,Hope4Gracebrought to you today by Mucinex D, orange juice, naps and snot rags.......

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Process and Focus

Today was a fun school day for me, I got to break out my trusty red pen. It was process and grading day. We started out the day in history for Princess, which gives us good reading practice and enabled us to spend some one on one discussing the beginning of man kind (i.e. bible based and evolution). I love the brain on my kid. She gets the comprehension stuff better than I would have thought and her questions are always mature and make me think for the answer. Good challenge! Then she moved on to spelling and penmenship. Next up is math and science before we're done for the day. Today we're going...

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Humid and Foggy

The weather we have had lately here is so strange for us. After three years in Utah, I get as giddy as a little kid when we have rain all day. Light drizzles - ok. Thunderstorms - ok. We open the blinds and just school happily. I had forgotten how humid it can be but it's still better than snow. So bring it!We're still in Beaumont, which shouldn't surprise me as these jobs tend to never follow a deadline like normal jobs. We still aren't sure where we are going next but God is good and frankly we're not stressed. We're just enjoying our time together. Very exciting!School has become more regemented...

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Days In Our RV - the coolest soap on web

Today is everything I remember Texas as being.........HOT, muggy and overcast. It's a very "I need a shower day" with a filmy layer and I don't care.Yesterday was rain rain rain. SO much so that before lunch in the dead of schooltime Dave calls and says to fire up the F250 and come get daddy from work....those precious words: RAINOUT. And when I showed up to pick him up driving that F250 dressed in jean capris with knee high rain boots, a black shirt, a black hat and no makeup, he said I looked cute. I can't remember being this "not" concerned with how I look. It's very refreshing after years...

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Sunday In An RV

So we got up to do church this morning and we had a great traveling preacher visiting. With a sermon on growing a new heart and learning to start over, it was a priceless lesson. Very good stuff there.Then since Dave had a rare day off we took the kids on a field trip. More on that later.The most interesting part of my overcast, chilly day? Well Dave and I are battling laptops at the dinette doing school work while the kids are watching movies. At some point, Princess turned around and stuck her head next to Dave's and they were pretending that Dave had two evil heads, when disaster struck. Princess...

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Ruh-Roh!

In the words of scooby, ruh-roh. Noticed something interesting on my blog today. My real name is right out there for anybody with a slow enough internet connection to figure out......and I'm too lazy to change it.....shhhh....don't tell!Did you find ...

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Off the Wall

What do you call a pill bottle full of bullets?A bottle of terrorist microchips...implant in the forehead.Do you see why my life is never boring? This is what happens when Princesses asks silly questions and Dave's in a good mood.The things my kids learn.....s...

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Sunny Saturday in Texas

It was such a beautiful day. We made hay, getting in over 8 hours of school sitting here with the windows and blinds open with a slighty chilly breeze blowing through. Oh it was heaven. The girls were just on target today.Princess finally nailed the double digit divison! Yes! This was huge peeps as she learned this last year but it wasn't until mommy was the teacher that I noticed that she has only about so-so with it. But we got it today! Yes! Big accomplishment for us. Now we're on to reviewing fractions in math.Murphy spent his day barking happily at other dogs passing by. He is such a shit....

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I found satan

Princess and I are working hard. And I have to tell you, I have discovered one of Satan's hiding places........76/87554Double Digit DivisionIt's the devil.And after two days of nonstop drama and wrong answers and frustrated kid/teacher combos...we had a breakthrough.....And celebrated by going to SON...

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Good Feelings

Today is a great day. It's sunny, beautiful and peaceful. Since Dave works Saturdays, we do school on Saturdays so I give my kids Friday off school. What a peaceful wonderful day it is. We get our errands done, we hang out and relax. We talk, laugh and do all our upkeep stuff, like nails.Except it's the first Friday of the month....which is the day I pay ALL the bills. The regularly scheduled ones, not the straggling medical bills from my surgery that come floating in one by one. Before, I'd be up at midnight working on bills and trying to juggle my checkbook while dreaming of sleep. Instead,...

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Dear Stalker (Not My Husband)

I do so heart visitors to my page, and even if you have a criminal record (as long as it's not a felony record cause then we'll have to pass, sorry) I don't care that you visit. But be a peach, speak up. Try a comment out there ever once in a awhile so I know who be stalking my arse.Frankly it's more fun when everyone participates, so say hi. Drop us a line, just don't show up at my door. There isn't enough room in this traveling circus for overnight guests....

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oh my lord...

I really needed a good laugh this morning and oh man, the place to get it is "Modern Family". I laughed myself till I thought I'd have to change my pants. Geez. I do so heart that someone else (even fictional) is living the Griswald dream.Oh let me count the ways.....but I'll save you there and not get into it. No examples of the gasping, crying laughing parts. Except: the definition of Phil's for yager.......omgawdAnywho, we did our service project this morning. It absolutely makes my heart soar when the kids do something wonderful for someone other than themselves. They made beautiful pictures...

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Challenges Galore

Duchess and I are doing one on one math right now. Since we began homeschooling in the middle of the Christmas break, I ordered them their corresponding years worth of books through Abeka. So we make sure to do reading and math everyday while doing work on the other subjects throughout the week.What really has me boggled is Duchess' math abilities. Her teacher when we parted ways gave me her progress report and her year end goals. She was working on subtraction. First grade subtraction. So even though we began our homeschooling journey in the middle of the year, I had Duchess start at the beginning...

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Hump Day!

Sometimes I have too much time on my hands...like rainy days in which those of us with a cold do not want to venture out at all. And since I'm a certified facebook addict, it should come as no surprise that I found something as quirky as I am. Status Shuffle: for those too lazy to think up their own witty and intriguing status lines. Really you should give it a shot: these are my favorites that I have on hold for future use......yes I look through them and save some for quick posting.....I'm not...

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Close up Time!

Today was a day I dreaded. My poor traveling children were overdue for a teeth cleaning and Princess had a filling pop out so it was off to the dentist. Previously dental expeditions were all about crying jags, big ole bills and the "orthodontist" talk. So it's not something I have looked forward to in the past. Also since dentist keep banker hours, I usually had to use my organizing skills to arrange time off work, juggle the kids' schedule and then trying to get us all there and back in one piece. In other words, one big ass ole headache.Today was a gift from God. Thank you sweet Jesus. Duchess...

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