Happy Birthday Elisabeth!!!

Today is Elisabeth's 7th birthday! She woke up at the leisurely time of 8:30, opened 2 presents, one from me (her heart socks on the right) and one from Moma and Papa (that first picture is Elisabeth working on the butterflies from them), got dressed and had cinnamon rolls for breakfast. Then we went to Target and picked up a birthday present for Mitch. All in all a good morning.

Our new sitter Tiffany will be here at 1:00, so I can go to class, I have a quiz today (yuck!).
Elisabeth requested corned beef brisket for her birthday dinner, yummy!

Tomorrow is our first day of homeschool co-op for the year, I guess I better plan my lesson to teach tomorrow!

Joseph had to get in on the glitter paint action!

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Procrastinating!

OK I am supposed to be studying my Latin vocabulary, but I needed a break for a few minutes.

This is a picture of Elisabeth's knitting needles. We made them last night, and she started her first knitting. I think she is going to get the hang of it quickly as long as she doesn't get too frustrated. Notice the needles have little doggies on the ends, those are beads we glued onto the ends of dowels and we sharpened the other ends to a point with a pencil sharpener, Elisabeth actually did most of the project.

Here are the kids this morning, cleaning out Elisabeth's closet. Notice Joseph's shirt is on backwards, he likes to dress himself and he always puts his clothes on backwards intentionally!

I also bought some yarn from someone on the socknitters group. She was getting rid of some Opal Rainforest Yarn, which normally sells for $15-16 a ball, plus shipping. She sold it for $12 a ball. Since Joseph has been adament about wanting the Tiger socks (tigers are his favorite animals these days), I couldn't pass it up! I know, it is my weakness. But that is 1 Christmas present taken care of!

OK procrastination finished, I need to learn these Latin words for a quiz today!

Sitters, sickness and school

Mitch put an ad in the paper on Monday to look for a replacement sitter for the kids. We have gotten several calls, so we will be spending the weekend interviewing candidates. We have several good possibilities.

Joseph was sick last week and now Mitch has the same cold, they have both been miserable. On top of the cold Mitch has been working 12 hour days for the past week and a half, because of the start of the semester. Thank goodness we have a long weekend coming up!

My classes have been going well. Already I have so much work, and we just finished the first week of classes! But I knew there would be a dramatic difference between the work load of the gen. ed. classes I was taking at Santa Fe and the classes at UF which are for my major.

Elisabeth had her first Brownie Girl Scout meeting last night. She had such a good time! This troop is very active and already has sleepovers and camping trips planned. I think it will be good for her.

She has been really good with Maisey. Here she is petting her. Elisabeth constantly wants to give Maisey her toys and treats. Sometimes its too much love!

The picture at the top is the first completed sock of Elisabeth's birthday socks. I am almost done with the leg portion of the second sock. I should have it completed this weekend, then I can wash them and surprise Elisabeth with the socks on her b-day. She thinks the socks are for me or Becka, she keeps asking me to make a pair like them for her.

Well gotta go for now.

So Frustrated!!

So I got a call last night from our new babysitter. She left a message to call her because she needed to talk to me. I had a bad feeling when I got the message. I called her back this morning, she put in her notice to quit!!!! AHHHHH! She told me she is not able to handle the demands of school, babysitting and being a single mom away from home for the first time. She said she will work for us until we can find another sitter. But it was so hard to find her in the first place. I'm hoping that now that all the students are back in town it might be easier. What a way to start the week. I go from the great news with my classes to this. I suppose it could be worse, I suppose she could just not show up again.

Meanwhile, I am thankful that Katrina did not pay us a visit. My prayers are continually with those who are being affected by this monster of a storm. And we are watching the Atlantic as TD 13 forms.

The week could only get better right?

Schedule Changes

I did a little switching around in my schedule last night. A seat opened up in the French Literature course I have to take. This class in only offered in the fall the the 2nd part is offered in the spring. So, I went ahead and added Intro to French Lit 1 and dropped Man's Food. I still have to take a biology, but Man's Food is offered year round online, so I can take it any time. The French Lit class falls right between the 2 classes I already had on MWF, it works out perfectly.

I haven't uploaded any new pictures, so here are a couple more from our trip to Orlando. Elisabeth forecasting the weather at the Orlando Science Center. A weather exhibit done Magic School Bus style, very fun! The manatees above are from the exhibit at Sea World.

First day of classes

Well, the first day of classes went well yesterday. I had my Writing in French and Latin I classes. It was wonderful to be immersed in French again. The class will be a lot of work, but it will be a fun challange. Latin should be an easy class to relearn everything I learned in highschool Latin.

Today I have Structure of French, I think it will be an interesting course. I also have Man's Food, this is basically a course on nutrition. It is an online class, I only have to go oncampus for it for the exams.

The kids were great for the sitter yesterday, hopefully that will last, at least for a little while.

Well I need to go and get ready for our day.

I will post more pics soon.