Silly 'Saturday

                                         

He actually had half of that foot in his mouth!! Course as always with photographing the kids, he removed it just as I snapped.

Funny Quotes:

"My mother had morning sickness after I was born."

                                                                — Rodney Dangerfield

"I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them."

                                                                        — Phyllis Diller

"If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?"

— Milton Berle

"I can remember the first time I had to go to sleep. Mom said, 'Steven, time to go to sleep.' I said, 'But I don't know how.' She said, 'It's real easy. Just go down to the end of tired and hang a left.' So I went down to the end of tired, and just out of curiosity I hung a right. My mother was there, and she said 'I thought I told you to go to sleep.'"

                                                                   — Steven Wright

"It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder, and violence every single day should be avoided entirely. But the desire to beget children is a natural urge."

                                                                   — Phyllis Diller










Recycle and Reuse!!!-Homeschoolwise

So I thought I would start sharing, and collecting others ideas for reusing things around the house to use for their home school. So if you have any ideas, leave a comment!


I like to save all my cardboard boxes from around the kitchen. You know, cereal boxes and other food boxes. I like to use them instead of buying card stock. When I make games or puzzles or anything else that we will be using over and over, I glue them onto the cardboard, cut them out, then use contact paper to cover both sides. This has saved me a lot of money for not having to buy cardstock!

Help a Fellow Blogger and Do Some Hoppin!!

Hi everyone!!! Holly over at Popsicles and Pigtails has entered her daughter Darbee (such a cute name by the way) into a photo contest. So stop by her blog and click on the link to go to little Darbee's photo and click "Like" to vote for her. Then repost so your friends can do the same. GO DARBEE!!!

Menu Monday

So here is the plan for this weeks dinners:


Monday:Grilled porkchops, grilled okra, corn on the cob


Tuesday:Cheese filled Manacotti w/ maranera sause, salad, and garlic bread


Wensday:Wont be home


Thursday:Sante Fe Chicken Salad


Friday:Quesadillas with mexi-corn and salsa


Also hopping this morning, so check out the blog hop buttons on the left, and link up!!!

Sight Word Games

So today I have been looking around the web to find some fun ways to practice our sight words. We have a workbook we do everyday that introduces new sight words on the front half, and reading sentences practice in the back half. We do three new words every week, and sentence practice everyday. I also have a little game that I put together that we play. I have all the words she learns written on the large popsicle sticks, and we are always adding new words. I show her the popsicle stick, and if she gets it right, she keeps it, but if she misses, I keep it, and she can't sound it out. Then whoever has the most wins, and she loves to beat me ;p. I like her not being able to sound them out, so she will say the word right out since she knows it. She is getting better and better at her reading, but she tends to sound out words she already knows, therefore slowing her down. I am a major believer in phonics, for without it, new words are hard to learn and pronounce, but I also believe in learning to read everyday words by sight so that reading goes more smoothly in the beginning. So anyways, back to the whole web search thing, I didn't find much, at least that looked fun, but I did find this one sight that has quite a bit of printable games to play with sight words. It's at Kelly's Kindergarten: tp://kellyskindergarten.com/Games/GamestoMake/games_to_make.htm.


My only problem is everything that I find is for multiple players, and I am the only one playing with Diva Queen, so I need to find games that don't require me answering questions too. Because of course I'm always going to get them right. Does this make sense? I am finding it hard to word that. Mommy brain strikes again!!


So, I am still searching, although a few of the games on that sight did seem promising, I want to always keep things fresh, so they don't get boring.


Any suggestions, I'm ears!! 

Our Not So Perfect Homeschool

So our first year of homeschool is definitely not going as planned. I had such high hopes at the beginning of the year, and at first, I did everything as planned. We did phonics, math, art, some music, and dabbled in some social studies and science. We started school everyday at the same time, and stayed on schedule throughout the day. Even after the baby was born (once  I was better and healed) we returned to our routine. After a month or so I dropped the social studies and science lessons, using children books and normal reading times for our social studies, and decided to save science for the summer. Music was lost, and we only did art once in a while. Then after Christmas things just blah!! One the baby has started to be awake more, there for needing me more. Another is Crazy Man seems to be fed up with all the attention Diva Queen is getting, and while I try to include him when I can, or finding activities for him, he wants none of it! Then there is the now remodeling, and we're all just in a slump. I find myself wishing the year to be over so that we can start new next year. As of now, we're down to just our phonic/sight word workbook and math. Oh and I do make sure she reads aloud to me at least sometime during the day!! Yay me!! It is only kindergarten right? And the main thing is she has fun being a kid? Right!!???!! Uggh!!! Then why do I still feel like I failed :(

So I pose a question: Did your first year of homeschool go as planned? Here's another one: How did you cope with having an infant and a wild toddler/preschooler plus trying to do school?
(Ok! So that should be QUESTIONS instead......don't judge me.....I have frazzled mommy brain.)

Remodeling!!!!

We've finally started remodeling our house. Who ever built it did a very bsd job, and sooo much has got to be done. We have started in the bathroom, which was the worse, and even turned out to be worse than we thought. We have replaced the ancient tub which was peeling and rusting on the outside. Under the old tub was nothing but rot!!! So now not only were we replacing the tub, we now have to replace the entire floor!! It is a horrible mess. We also have to re-sheetrock the walls behind the tub because they had several mildew spots. It is a work in progress, and hubby is doing a wonderful job!


Next will be the kitchen, which the floor will be retiled, and I would like the cabinets to be redone. Also the washer and dryer hook-ups are right beside the stove, which I hate sooo bad!!!


Then we will get to the livingroom. We plan on recarpeting and painting it. We're also talking about adding recessed lighting. My brother-in-law has it in his house, and my husband loves it!! It will give the lighting a more even look in the room. Our living room is long, with a fixture on each end.


After that, we will just go in to the individual room and add new paint and carpet.


It will take a long time to get done, but hopefully the outcome will be well worth it!!