trying to catch up

Goodness, every time I try to get on here to post I get consumed by something else, or I am on the back computer (in which case I don't have access to pictures to post). This time around I said....I'm doin' it, I'm writing a post, come what may. So here it is. I'm sure it will be piece-meal. And it will be pictureless because I am on the back computer. Oh well. And who knows if I will actually be able to write everything that I wanted due to a teething/sick/something baby. He's not been sleeping well and has been waking up at all sorts of odd hours. Pour little guy.



OK...on to the post, of which I am hoping I can even remember what I wanted to write about. I will start with Mother's Day. We had to stay home from church since Jonah was sick. His cough sounded horrible and he had a fever. Isabella had been feverish the night before. This illness has hit all the kiddos. Jedidiah had a rough time with it. We were able to get by without caving into antibiotics. I am glad we were able to do that because antibiotics just throws another wrench into an already chaotic picture. I was able to talk with Jed's homeopathic doctor during Jed's illness and give him the appropriate remedies. Back to Mother's Day, the girls all made me lovely drawings and a couple of picture frames. I was in the mood for some cinnamon rolls that morning. No one was awake yet, so I set to making them myself. When the older girls woke up they had planned on making me breakfast. Hey, I wasn't going to stop them :-) So they set to making some eggs and toast. We listened in to the sermon from the computer. The day was pretty quiet. Jeremiah made us all dinner that night. So I got the night off from kitchen duty :-) And to top it all off Jedidiah actually said "mom" for the first time! It sounded more like, "mmmmmmmummmmmmmm". Look closely and you will see a "u" in there. He had two long "m" sounds that were on either side of a short, but oh so sweet, "uh" sound. He has taken to calling me "mom" half the time and "bah" for the other half. "Bah" is what he normally calls me.



My computer time has been limited to mostly researching homeschooling things. The girls will be taking their year end test in a couple of weeks. Normally that is the end of our school year and we take a break for summer. This year will be different since we had taken more time off after Jonah was born. To make up for that we will take a short break, one week or so, and dive into the beginning of the next school year. I think it may actually work out better this way over all. I plan on giving them a couple of weeks off come Sept. when it gets cooler out. Right now since it is so hot during the middle of the day they have been playing outside in the morning and evenings, and doing school during the mid day. Then come next spring we'll take another long break. So I've been printing off attendance sheets, and other printables. I am trying to make up a reading list for this coming year. I am gathering a few different lists and then will pick and choose the ones we will do. I was given the link to a neat Charlotte Mason site a while back. I looked at it and thought it looked like it could be helpful. I must not have spent much time on it...because I looked it over yesterday and was amazed by what they had on it :-) Ha! Plus we came across this (or these) really neat site(s) for free printables for some really neat lapbooks. I want to do a few of those this summer, to keep things more light hearted. I think it is more for my sake than the girls. It is hard to break from the thought of summer=no school. My girls of course don't care one way or the other. I will share our book list and curriculum once I have it all figured out.



I was able to talk with someone today who does holistic care. I got her number from a friend. I am really excited to meet with her in person. She said from the info I gave her that Jedidiah has a central nervous system problem. This is what his homeopathic doctor has been saying recently as well. I would like to get her to look at him just to see what she can "see". I want to first say that I am VERY happy with the progress we have made with the homeopathy. And I will continue to recommend it to others, and I plan to continue to learn more about it for the rest of our family's sake. But later next month Jed has a well child visit. Not a problem, except that the nurse called to ask if we would be OK seeing the new PA in the office. I guess his doctor and the PA have been discussing Jed's case and his doctor is "frustrated at his lack of weight gain". Hmmmmm, that might not be good. His doctor has been fabulous through all of this. But I have the feeling we may be heading for a bit of a confrontation this time around. If his doctor wants more testing done, due to the lack of progress in his weight it is going to be hard to explain that we need more time. And by no means is his doctor pushy or anything like that, but it does get hard to stand your ground when it looks like I don't have anything to stand on!!! So my hope in going to this holistic care person is to see what she believes is going on with Jed. That way I will be armed with two other alternative med. peoples' opinions. And, who knows, she may be able to help us get Jedidiah better faster. I'll fill you in after his appointment (June 3rd).



Well off to bed I go. We have a parenting seminar we are going to tomorrow. That will last till early evening, then off to a graduation party. And let me tell you that makes me feel old!!! The girl who is graduating was 4 years old when we first me her!!!! Now she's graduating high school. Yikes!!!



I will leave you with a couple of links to the places I have been hanging out at lately.



Donna Young's printables



Simply Charlotte Mason



Lapbooks---this one doesn't look like much at first. You will have to sign up in order to get the password to the lapbooks, it's free. And most of the stuff is on the bottom of the page after all the google adds. But don't let all that stop you, it really is a neat site!

Homeschool freebie of the day

That's all for now. I'll be back at some point with pictures.