Schooling and our trip to MOA

Last Sunday we went to MOA to ride on all the rides. Jacob worked up the nerve to go on the avatar air-bender, which is a ride described like this. Its set on a giant skateboard. One each side of the skateboard there are a set of seats that hold about 6 people you get strapped in pretty good. The ride starts moving back and fourth in a big "U' you go way up in the air and as you go up in the air the set of seats you are attached to spins real fast in circles...its definitely the most scary fastest ride they have there, I couldn't handle it and Jacob came off green in the face...lol the lady across from him on the other set of seats said "every time when your side was up on the "U" and he was looking down on her she would see his face and pray that he kept his stomach"...lol anyways he said that was a one time ride. There were a lot of other ride that he did like and James had a blast on the log ride a zillon times. I had to go get a cheap pair of shorts on sail for $5 from old navy and a shirt for $3 cause what they forgot to tell me is when you sit up front and weigh the front down the water comes in and you get completely soaked.   ;-(

My trip to the E.R last night :-(

So last month I was having server pain and went into the E.R my gull blatter was cheaked nothing, didnt know what it was, went away. Anyways found out what it was most likely related to. I have kidney stones in both kidneys of which I have been apparently passing. on top of that I have a lower UTI infection. I was in so much pain I could not sleep last night so I went to the E.R...and that says something cause I hate those places. Anyway after an IV, a variety of different drugs, vicodine and heavy antibiotics I am feeling comfortable now. Mom came to watch the kids for me...the kids woke me up still with there loudness :-( only 4 hrs of sleep :-/



 Other then my little trip last night the next big thing that is coming is this weekend we are taking the kids to Nickelodeon Studios inside MOA to a mirror maze and mouse mountain. I found a set of tickets on CL for dirt cheap I could not pass them up. Pray I feel better by then cause I really want to do this with them before school starts.

What do we do?

We are still waiting for the insurance company to come out and look at our roof. In a way im praying that I get stuck with flipping the bill. Is it wrong of me to want that just so I feel like I have a more moral valueble reason to walk away from this place? Probably. Yet, I have been worried about what we are going to do when the time gets to it if that does happen. How everything is going to work? If it will screw our credit? If it will screw everything? Its like im just waiting on this one thing to know what I should do. If it turns out that I am responsible for it that is my awnser to the whole house thing, because we cant afford to live hear with the upkeep of the place and I wouldnt feel bad about walking because of that, its different though if you just walk cause we dont like were we are living. I also want to do what is right, what God wants us to do. Please pray for this situation. We need knowlege and we need wisdom, we need a unwavering anwser and God's peace in our hearts about the whole thing.

If we're walking in his peace then we're walking in him.

We are thinking about getting away from home with the boys before school starts. Once school starts its going to be crazy busy and family time and any time will be pretty limited. No time for getting away even just for a day or two, so I have been looking into cheap stays at a hotel with a water park.

We went to the childrens museum yesterday. September is our last month of our yearly pass. I dont think ill upgrade. We went five times last year which did pay for itself. The kids had fun painting their faces, and playing with everything. We brought along Jacob's friend Aiden and that worked out well. When we got home I couldnt find James anywhere after we were in the house for a while. I thought he had told me he was going to the neighbors to play and I had said he could. I got worried, I found him eventually up in his room on his bed burried under his blankets fast asleep. He was tired from the days events.

I just took some time to look at the curriculum cause the school already has it posted on the site for school and I am acually excited. It looks fun. I got everything done that I need to get done not to feel unready. I got the house looking good, all the rooms done, the laundry caught up, if i do one load a day it stays done. I got the garage done, my car cleaned out with my tinker bell floor mats. I bought those from a garage sale like months ago and have not had a floor to put them on :-) it was bad, now its clean. I feel very accomplished and ready for school now.

We had fun the other day taking some pics for you to enjoy.

Now on a nother topic I wanted to talk about something that really gets to me. I can not stand they way my oldest son plays with his toys. He has to play with small pieces of every single set of toys he has and he has to leave them lying around all over, he cant play with the legos and the little mario people seperate, or kenex'  and the castle things seperate..( I know im dreaming right) but what really gets me is his ability to leave them all randomly lying around on shelving...grrrr.

Now I should take a picture of it, this was last week after his room was mostly clean...each shelve now is completley filled with castle, lego people and peices, he says "Mom you cant move them I play with them all the time!" and he is right he does..so mom can't win this fight :-( oh well, I just wont look :-)

Jacob is offically excepted into MNVA and I am enjoying the time we have till school

So we got a letter that Jacob was excepted into the school and told him about it and he was all excited. I am accually excited too. The curriculm they use seams to be very good. The stuff look fun for me. However I am enjoying the last little bit of summer that is left.

Yesterday I spent a little portion getting the house in order. Reorginzed the living room so I fell like I live somewhere else that is how bad I want out of here :-) I would say I do it every like 4 months, get bored of it and have to change it.

We have some nasty storms rolling throught our area right now, nothing I think that will be to serve just nasty looking. James is counting to Ten now pretty well on his own. He is also getting really good at colors. He came up today and said "I took a poop and it was brown."...lol "really" i told him im glade you know what color it was..still kid :-D he just looked out the window and said" look its a rainbow' (there was no rainbow, the sky was a diff color cause of the storm) but he said "its a rainbow, rainbows are orange." I am right in his for sure voice. of corse we had to correct that but the sky was orange. Colors are coming along very well, and I think he will do good with kindergarten this year with homeschool.

Sheeba our dog got into the cats food yesterday, she ate 5 bowls of cat food...grrrr i wanted to ahhhhhh....anyways, while I was cleaning I was going around after her..she got real sick and lathargic...puked, pooed, it was bad but i couldnt stay mad long cause she worried me i thought something was way wrong...of course today she couldnt keep any of that clamness...shes back to her chipper, stuborn, bullheaded, needing collar to control self :-D as much as I hate to admit it, she has become part of our family, we feared her health yesterday even the boys....I like watching them play with her, she is so gental with them, in rough housing or telling them "not now." she has gotten a lot better at that. Well time to go got some battle star galactica to watch.

School, James counting and other things on my mind.

Today has been a pretty laid back day. slept in..that was bad. But we were up so late last night watching movies and playing games and talking with neighbors. Had a nice brunch...now James is on Daddy's lap and they are practising counting. He almost has it to 10 now. although he keeps messing up...he'll get there soon.

So last Friday went well. We visited Target Field and found out a lot of interesting facts. We also got to see lots of stuff that was behind the scenes stuff which was also awesome. The boys liked the tour. We got to see some of the curricullum we would be getting to use this year for school and it was pretty cool. They had a rock kit that was like 20 rocks or so and they sent you a whole bunch of science stuff, experiaments and stuff. They had this really cool paper for writting which is not like your normally line paper to learn to write letters. The normall line paper can be confusing for kids with the red lines, slashes and blue lines countinuously repeating down a sheet of paper. These are nice because it is two straght lines across then a big gap and then the same thing...no colors or confusing spaces, or dashes. Ill have to take a pic and post it when the stuff comes.

Friday is going to be a fun day!

On Friday we are taking the North star to Target Feild with Mom to go to a meeting for Jacob's School. We get to meet his teachers and ask questions. I can find out more about the issues with reading/writing we have with Jacob, they want to test him in some areas to see if he has some other issues that may be causeing him to not be up to par on that subject. I found out they do have a Special Education Teacher for this subject. They are going to test him out for all subjects to see were he falls and if he needs help to fill in the gaps they will give him what he needs which is good. On a possive not being a child that had special ed myself for reading I know how it feels and I also know that I didnt get ready to read till I was in 4th-5th grade when I finally found books interesting...but that was me. I also know what might help as well with his reading stuff. I am excited because
1. we have to get up early and this will help me with the other thing on my last blog.
2. James and Jacob will be so happy to take the North Star.
3. Mom is taking Jacob home later that day so thats nice :-D
4. Just that it will be an enventful day of doing something and going some where. I get so bored with the same thing everyday. To do anything seems to cost money...or should I say to do anything that seems intersting and fun (stuff that we dont do normally) cost money.