First Day of School

Wow, what a day. All of the kids and I am totally exhausted! My 2 public school kids had a great day, but did absolutely no school work. I had to stop by the school nurse's office this morning and witnessed children, at least 4th grade, learning to walk in a line! Seriously? I would not lie about something so sad. The nurse asked how home schooling was going, I told her we had already done our math lessons for the day, she said,"well you're doing better than these, they haven't done any school work so far."

Trying to get the baby's schedule worked out with my babysitter (who starts back to college on Monday), and our school schedule to work with 3 three year olds in the house is kind of a slow process. Come on Head Start!

All in all, we had a very successful day, we got in Math, Handwriting, Reading, Science and History! Even more important, I got a commitment for cleaning help from my babysitter. She wants to stay on, keep making the $ even if I have fewer kids at home. If she will clean and wash clothes while I teach, then both of our prayers will have been answered!

Finally some answers about my dad's health...he has viral meningitis and is in ICU. We expect him to be in the hospital for at least 7 days. Please continue to pray for my dad's health and my mother's patience.

Where have I been?

Wow! Has it really been that long since I posted? I've been lazy, trying to take care of the kids (9) and my favorite kid (Albert).

Since February we have finalized our adoption of the Marmon 4. Pictures to come. and we now have 5 foster kids to boot. Kids ages are as follows...9, 9, 7, 7, 6, 3, 3, 3, 1.

School starts in 2 days and I will be homeschooling our 4 with the one year old in the house. Two will be in public school and hopefully 2 will be in Head Start shortly.

As always we are accepting prayers and any comments you might have.

Oh how I am craving the structure. Last week we all got up at 7 a.m. and this week we have gotten up at 6 a.m. I feel like it will make a tremendous difference.

Adoption pictures will be coming in the next month!