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.

Help me get my Schedual right!

I have such a problem with sleep. I have always had my sleeping schedual turned around since I was a teenager. I stay up to late and sleep in to late. Jacob is up by like 7:30-8am James normally is up by 9am. I normally get up at 10 or later. In between this I do drag myself out of bed, stumble down the stairs and get the cearal and milk going for the kids, but then its right back upstairs for another hour or two :-(
 I know that I need to get a better habit, this is not going to work once school hits. This is something that has bothered me for quite some time. I love my sleep. I need atleast 8 hours to even be able to be me. 9-10 hours and I feel great. I think its all what our bodies are use to. I have to change. I like to stay up till 3am studying, reading, bible, books, play games on computer and talk on FB. Lets face it, my brain does not seem to really get going till about 10-11pm then im up and im ready to do this kind of stuff. How do I change it? First of all, I want to wake up by like 7am in the morning to get breakfast and get school going. I want to feel like I do right now, early in the morning, happy to be awake, happy to be up and starting a wonderful day. I think that if I were to pull a all nighter maybe I could switch my routine, but then again I wonder if that will really help at all. Do I do it all just "BAM" start doing it perfectly or start out slow? Get myself use to the new hours? I am just dreading this. We need schedual for myself, for the kids. I think it would greatly help my sanity :-D....LOL. any advice on how I should conqor my schedual issue?

James had to get shots today!!!!

So we went for our physicals this moring, (Jacob & James) and all is good. Boys are growing well, Jacob being on the bulky side and james being short and skinny. James had to get his 5 year old shots today. I was quite amazed with him. We rolled up his sleeves and he sat there and watched the nurses get the needles ready for poking. He puffed his arms up while sitting on daddy's lap and waited patiently. They told him to close his eyes because it would be easier for him, he did, they poked him and not a word, no tears, just a little flinch. All done, then they said they needed to give him a shot in each leg. He didnt detest just took it like a pro. I was so amazed at his ability not to cry, worry. Now Jacob, he was all worried he was going to have to get shots and was freaking out and I know we would have had to hold him down....kids are so different.

They're growing up to fast.

With Summer almost over and Fall is fastly approaching I like most of you moms are probably thinking about school. My boys are 7 and 5 now. I still remember when Jacob was 2 weeks old laying in his swing with the pretty music and I lying in my bed next to him watching him sleep. I pulled out our photo album from a long time ago when the boys and there cousins were so little. There was Sam and Jacob covered from head to toe in mud standing inside grandma and grandpas house, when they use to live in the apartments in spring brook. Both boys with big grins on there faces. James and Jameson in those little tike cars that they fought over so much till there was more then one...boy they were so little. I think the most thing I remember so clearly about James infancy was his ability to be a clinger...lol Yeah I know but I miss it. He is five now and like a couple months ago he still was a mommas boy. A couple days ago I went to give him a kiss and was denied :-( My heart broke to the realization that just like Jacob he too will go through the faze. My sweet, cuddly, clingy mommas boy is growing up. The school district called the other day for James to see if I was enrolling him into Kindergarten, just another reminder of how fast they grow. It came very apparent to me yesterday how effected I was by this. I'm probably not the only one who tries to denigh it, or not think about there babies growing up...in fact I'm almost certain I'm not. So I have to deal. I have felt so sad and in the dumps lately and I think that this is part of the reason...actually I'm certain it is. It feels so good to get it out. 
This year I will be home schooling James for Kindergarten. Jacob will be going to MNVA (Minnesota Virtual Academy) which is a online at home public school system based out of Huston, MN. The one question I have for myself is How am I going to do it? How am I going to teach two? I am completely worried about this. I have no clue how to juggle two schedules for schooling for two kids that learn in two different styles and have different things to learn. This is what I heard while praying on it today. "My peace is sufficient enough for this is it not?" So it is God's peace that he gives to me. I know that it will work out. I know that I want to do it. I know that I have a desire to teach them. I know that it will all be good, but yet inside knowing this I'm completely a wreck so pray for me please....so as I study God's peace and hopefully get some :-)  It is with his peace I hope to accomplish it and with his peace I hope you blog readers leave with.