Yet another reason I'm glad I homeschool...

On the way to church Sunday we drove past an elementary school. It had a sign that said "no guns or drugs allowed". At an ELEMENTARY school! I read it out loud and my husband's response was "when I was in elementary school we had a sign that said fun zone ahead." Crazy.

Things really have changed since we were kids I guess. Seeing things like that always makes me think how glad I am that I homeschool my kids!

Look what I finally have room for!

My wonderful husband brought this big dry erase board home several years ago. The place he worked was going to throw it out! I loved it and wanted to use it in the school room, but it wouldn't fit...until now. The schoolroom in the new house has room for it. It was the first thing we hung up in this house. (Still one of the only things we've put on the wall) I love it and I use it every day. Now, if we could just get the rest of the stuff put on the walls that would be great!

Wordful Wednesday

I've been so busy since we moved that I haven't been very good at keeping up my blog. I have been very good at enjoying the new house though! We especially like the yard. We have a pool and that has been really nice since its pretty much been over 100 degrees everyday!


We also have lots of little critters in this yard. Being a homeschooler I love this...science right in our own back yard! We have hummingbirds, cardinals, blue jays, chickadees, squirrels and we have seen 4 or 5 different kinds of lizards. I'm dying to get some good photos of them. I just haven't had the time. My son grabbed the camera and snapped some of a big lizard on our porch the other day. It a little cloudy looking because he took it through the window. Apparantly, the cat (who was inside) spotted it first! They drive her crazy! She sees them through the window and doesn't know how to get to them. She runs from window to window and literally tries to climb the walls!

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Wordful Wednesday

Our move was a little traumatic for our cat, Simba. She's a very skittish cat anyway, but when the movers showed up in a big truck she really freaked out! I wasn't there. My husband and son were. They said she ran and hid under the neighbor's car and then ran off. They get to the new house and my husband says, "oh, yea. Your cat ran away."

I went back that afternoon to look for her, but I couldn't find her. We went back again that evening...no simba. The next day was Sunday so we went to church and then went back to the old house to look for her. We could hear her meowing in the back yard, but she wouldn't come. I went around back and got her. She really just laid down in the garage and that was it. So, we went to eat lunch and then went back for her. She went right in her crate, which was odd. She hates the crate. She also just laid in it on the way to the new house. Again, odd. She usually paces back and forth the whole time she's in the car. She spent the rest of the day just laying in the crate! That night she came out and was acting weird. She was just kind of crawling around, not really walking. I turned her over to see her paws. I thought she might have a thorn or something. Worse. Her front paws were completely raw! She must have come back during the night and pawed at the door to get in. She actually pawed 3 screws out of the metal that holds the weather stripping on! That explained why she just laid around all day.

She spent about 3 days just crawling around. Her paws are better now--still a little pink, but she walks just fine now. Poor thing. I felt so bad for her! Somehow, somewhere she lost her collar and tags so we had to get her new ones. The kids picked out a hot pink collar with rhinestone paw prints on it! I tried to get it in the picture, but she wasn't real cooperative! She's getting used to the inside of the house. She hasn't explored the outside yet. I'm a little nervous about letting her out there. I got her new license tag today so maybe we'll do a little supervised exploring this weekend. :)

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I'm finally back online!

Wow, the last couple of weeks have been crazy! We closed on our new house on July 30th. So we have moved into the new house...almost completly. We had movers move all the big stuff last weekend. I've made trips to the old house every day this week bringing more stuff here and unpacking. I'm so tired! I have been on my feet for 2 weeks straight. In the middle of all that I had to get the van fixed.

The day we closed on the house my van got backed into. It dented one of the sliding doors so the kids could only use one. I tolerated it for a week because I was using the van to move stuff to the new house. After we got settled, we took it in to get fixed. I'm driving a Tahoe in the meantime. It's nice, but we call it "the tank"! It's very tall and wide...can't wait to get my van back. :)

Also in the middle of all this Claire got sick. I think the paint fumes set her off the week before we moved in. She's had a horrible cough ever since. I took her to the doctor and she came home with lots of medicine and an inhaler. She probably has asthma.

We are enjoying the new house, but its been tiring. Two days after we closed the downstairs A/C went out. Temps have been above 100 here for the last 13 days. Luckily, we got it fixed the next day. Nathan had a Dr. appt. that same day and I missed the repairman. Thank goodness he was able to go to another call and then come back.

We switched our phone & internet from one house to the other. It was suppose to be on at the new house last Friday. On sunday we still didn't have it. My husband called AT&T on Monday. Apparantly there was a problem...they sent us an email. Yes, an email to the people who are moving their service! How are we suppose to get an email when the service has been turned off? The problem? They needed to confirm our home phone number! Seriously, AT&T? You are our phone service provider. You know the number! Anyway, we got the phone on Tuesday, but had to wait until Wednesday for the internet.

So, that is what I've been up to. Sorry, if this post is a little random and rambles on. I'm watching the Ranger game as I type. (The first place Texas Rangers!!) We still need to move the last stuff from our old house. We'll probably do that this weekend. Then, I need to have a big garage sale! I'll post some pictures as soon as we get all settled in and unpacked.

So, what have you been up to?