School Days

We have completed 6 days of school. The first day was overwhelming!!! We are doing all new curriculum this year. It is great, but there is alot of work to do each day. So here's what we are doing......

Samuel -1st grade

Sing, Spell, Read, and Write

Horizons Math

He is doing Bible with Abby each day.

I include him in Erin's Science lesson.

Erin- 3rd grade

Horizons Math

Bob Jones Reading

Rod and Staff English

Bob Jones Science/Big Science Book

Story of the World

Matin Latin

Bible

Spelling Workout

Abby- 4th grade

Horizons Math
Bob Jones Reading
Rod and Staff English
Abeka Science
Story of the World
Matin Latin
Bible
Spelling Workout

Abeka Health

We have full days!! The kids are also playing soccer, girl scouts, cub scouts, and piano for Abby. Dave is teaching the girls the Latin class in the afternoons. It's going to be a good semester.

My new Neice......Katie Rae

Katie Rae Hart arrived today at 11:55. She weighed 7lbs 14 oz.

Look at those cheeks!!

Lori Before Katie arrived.

Recovering

I had a partial hysterectomy on Monday. I am home and recovering. I am hoping that this will make me feel so much better. Dave is taking very good care of me. He and the kids are getting me whatever I need so that I don't have to get up very often. Our sweet friends are bringing us dinner each night, and we are so thankful for that. I feel OK until I try to get up. They were able to do a laproscopic surgery so I have 3 incisions on my tummy. I am hoping to start school next Wednesday. So if everyting goes well we should be able to get started. I did all my preparations last week so we would be ready. Samuel's leg is healing nicely. He gets his stitches out on Friday. He said he is going to go swimming and take a long bubble bath after he gets them out. We haven't been able to get the incision wet, so he has been getting sponge baths this week. Thank you to all who have prayed for our family this last week.

Samuel

this is what he is doing with his days, playing inside

his battle wound!!!

I haven't blogged in a while. It has been quite an uneventful summer. So I didn't want to bore you with our daily laziness. This weekend was very eventful so I thought I'd share. Dave and I headed down to Summer Beach Project for return training with the students. Abby, Erin and Samuel were not interested in going, so we left them with Mama and Daddy in Talladega. Samuel was with Lori at Tracy's for the day. We got a call around 6:00pm from Tracy, just as we were pulling into Ft. Walton. She needed our insurance information, Samuel had "cut" his leg and they were on their way to the emergency room. I didn't freak out at first.....but I did freak out. All I could think about is how far away I was. 5 hours. What was the fastest way I could get home? I knew he was in good hands, but he was not in my hands. His Mommy!! Dave and I went to the Sand Man.....the Beach project housing.....dropped off the things we had for the students, and headed back home. By this time we had a better understanding of what had happened. He had run into a utility trailer on his bike and gashed open his leg on his right upper thigh. Tracy, my sister, who is normally very calm, FREAKED OUT when she saw it. She told me all this the next day, as to not upset me so bad since I was so far away. It cut through all the layers of fat and stopped right before the muscle. It looked bad. Lori my other sister that was there is actually a wound care nurse.......but that night she was just an Aunt to Samuel. She is 3 weeks away from delivering her second child. That day she and Tracy had a yard sale so Tracy's house was turned upside down. As Lori was running to get something to wrap his legs in, she fell on some beads and cut her foot. Oh my, it was an interesting night to say the least. Dave and I arrived at my parents at 1:30 am. I couldn't wait to hug my little boy. He was glad to see us. We took him Monday morning to the doctor for a tetanus shot. He had to have 12 stitches, 4 on the inside layer and 8 on the outside. The cut was almost 2 inches deep and 2 inches wide. He cannot get it wet until the stitches come out next Friday, the 7th. So the hard thing now is keeping him from getting it wet, dirty, or playing rough. He is a 6 year old boy, rough is his middle name. Tracy and Lori told me that while they were waiting with him at the ER, he said to them "It would have been worse(think of him saying this with his "R" sound) if it had caught on fire." Sometimes I just wonder what goes through his mind.

What have I been up to?

I have been ordering books, books, and more books for school. I have almost ordered all the books we will need for the school year. I am excited about what we are doing this year. I love curriculum. I know that's weird, but I love looking at the books and researching what is best, and seeing what other people have to say about them. This year Samuel will be doing Sing Spell Read and Write and Horizons Math. I ordered a full year of lesson plans for the girls that came with a book list. They have chosen some of the best curriculum for each subject. I have almost gotten all the girls books and I really am excited about what the girls will be doing.

We are having a good summer. A very lazy summer. We will be going back to Summer Beach Project in a couple of weeks to be with the students before they come home. Then it will be time to begin school. It has been nice having Dave home a little more this summer. He has been quite the Mr. fix-it this summer. Our house is at the point where a lot of things are needing to be repaired or replaced. So little by little we are doing repairs.

So I'm off for another lazy day! Oh the joys of summer.

Can I tell you how thankful I am? I am thankful for many things, but this week it is something that may seem petty to some of you. In December my dishwasher died. So since then we(Dave and I) have washed many, many dishes. Our plan was to get a new dishwasher in November because that is when it worked into our budget. Last week my parents had to do some unexpected work in their kitchen, and gave us their not so old dishwasher. It is just like new. Oh how thankful I am for my new dishwasher.

Erin Rebekah

Eight years and 9 months ago Dave and I got some very surprising news. We were gonna have another baby. Abby was 3 months old and we were expecting another baby. We were a little overwhelmed and excited at the same time. I saw my doctor on June 19th and he scheduled for me to come to the hospital at 5 am June 20th to be induced to have my baby girl. Dave and I arrived there right on time and the nurses got me all set up and ready. Just like with Abby's birth, everything went great. It was a pretty uneventful morning. Dave actually ordered drill for his marching band show around 10 am. A short time after that I was holding a precious little girl with a head full of brown hair. Abby looked just like Dave ( and still does), so when Erin was born I now had a little girl who looked just like me. She was precious from head to toe. She weighed 9 pounds and 1 ounce. Her personality was evident from the very beginning. She was a bit fussy and cried alot. She was and still is a mommy's girl...although she has warmed up to her daddy lately:) She is a sweet little girl who I call "Little" sometimes. She takes her time to do things....just like Dave. She looks just like I did as a little girl and shares the name Erin with me. I love her sweet smile and infectious laugh. Happy 8th birthday Erin. I love you.