Listening to something wonderful.

My older 2 kids are watching something 'scary' on TV, an old episode of McGyver. Youngest son is hanging out in my office/bedroom with me and reading to me from a book, Ricky Ricotta Vs. Voodoo Vultures From Venus. It's so nice to hear him reading and enjoying a book.

Not a plague of locusts ... but

We went to the historic house Locust Grove, in Louisville. It was a mildly interesting tour. The gardens were lovely. The day was breathtakingly beautiful, not too hot. We sat down for a potluck picnic under the shade trees. The kids finished eating and ran off to play and the parents were still eating and enjoying ourselves very much. Then suddenly several of the kids started screaming and crying. They had gotten into a yellow jacket nest, I guess. 5 or 6 of the kids were stung, one poor little guy had a yellow jacket in his ear! It was pretty awful. We packed up everything and left and that was the end of that field trip. Locust Grove has a Revolutionary War reenactment in October that sounds like fun and I had thought we might go. Maybe the yellowjackets will be hibernating (or whatever they do in winter) by then?

To all my readers ...

Thanks so much for all the wonderful comments on my post yesterday. I feel so encouraged! Now I'll probably blog so much you might wish I'd stop! I've got to hurry this morning because we're going on a field trip to Locust Grove in Louisville.
http://www.locustgrove.org/index.htm We were just talking about George Rogers Clark the other day in our studies, so hopefully a trip to his sister's house will make history 'come alive'. I didn't plan this trip, it's with our homeschool group and it's a substitute trip because the other trip we had planned today fell through, but it wouldn't have fitted our study and this one does. Cool, huh?

Anyway, I've got to get in the shower, but thanks again for helping me know I'm not 'talking' to myself. ;-)

A few things.

I tell you, I've kind of lost my spirit for blogging now that I've lost my best reader/commenter. I miss Henny Penny and all her other aliases. It's difficult to feel that one is talking to oneself, but here goes anyway.

Earlier today one of our kittens was playing with 'half a mouse' as my daughter described it. I asked which half and she said "the back half" in other words,
"a mouse butt." This was funny to us at the time.

Later on, my oldest son was complaining about his socks. He's very picky about socks. I guess this was an older pair, washed many times and maybe we hadn't used enough fabric softener. He said that they felt rough and kind of "crunchy". My youngest, on hearing part of this conversation said "You gotta wash your socks Dude!" LoL. He's just recently started throwing the word Dude into a lot of conversations. It's funny!

Tomorrow we have a field trip so I don't really have to do any planning for that, other than picking up peanut butter and jelly for sandwiches, which I've already done, but maybe I'd better do some planning for Tuesday? Then again, maybe not. It's my day off and maybe I should just enjoy it.

Studying American HIstory

These are some web sites I have found useful in our American History study so far.

http://www.mandygregory.com/Social%20Studies.htm

http://www.usconstitution.net/constpix.html

http://www.classbrain.com/artfreekid/publish/article_52.shtml

http://www.ourlosbanos.com/homeschool/history/americanonline.html
http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/

http://www.lessonplanspage.com/

Fun book about space, not related to our unit, but might be good for someone else.

http://www.astro.washington.edu/ivezic/Astr598/SpaceColoring.pdf

We've progressed up to the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution in our study.

Thursday.

I can't believe it's Thursday already. The days are just zooming by. September's almost half over. How does this happen? We're plugging right along with American History. We just finished studying the battles of the American revolution and will start on the formation of the new government.

I'm still not doing very well with my lists and my motivation. I did exercise yesterday, but it's been kind of hit and miss. Maybe today will be the day I jump back up on the bandwagon. Don't hold your breath though.

Yesterday, my youngest son stubbed his toe, not too long after he had scraped his leg on the exercise bike. He said "My lower half is not having a good day today."
Hopefully, his upper half was. LoL.

Sleeping Late

I didn't sleep well last night and ended up sleeping later than usual this morning. My youngest son and I were discussing this and he said "I sleep until my dream goes off and then I wake up."

It seems like not that long ago ...

My youngest nephew was born, but today we celebrated his first birthday. He's a cutie. Here's a picture we took of his chubby little hand on Easter weekend. Is that cute or what?



I cannot even think about the fact that my oldest nephew is going to be 16 on his next birthday. That does not seem possible.