Great time away

Wow with the storms, power outages, mini holiday away, I have not been on here for awhile. I haven't even had a chance to blog about my 3 in 30.

So to start with that :
1: Read the bible in 90 days.
I managed to find the challenge on line in a printer friendly verson so I printed it and started reading. Now in the first 2 days it went great, then my life got topsy turvy for a few days and although I am reading everyday since; I have not read my required readings for each day. I do plan once things get back on track to read some extra on certain days and get back on track. If not at least I am reading every day.

2: Get the school room ready and everything ready to go back to school.
I plan to finish sorting things out in there and setting a few things up as well and as as soon as the books come in sort it all out, try and figure out what days we will work on certain subjects. I also want to talk to some of the homeschool mom friends I have and ask what works for them.

3: Work on a menu planning and becoming more budget friendly.
I want to try and save some more money. We want to purchase our first house in the next year and if I can save some money I will try and do it. So I have been reading some blogs that talked about menu planning and to be honest when my kids were little we were SOOO broke so I did the same thing. Then time got away with me I worked away from home and last minute meals become more the norm. So now that I have decided to be more enviro friendly and budget friendly I thought a menu plan would be a great idea. I hope to have that up in the next couple days so I can go to the city for a big grocery shop. ( Prices are cheaper than our little town store)

I also want to try and take pics  and post them of our school room in the next day or so. Hopefully I can get that figured out soon.

Well gonna run off to bed as another fun filled day tomorrow and last day with my handsome hubby. :( Sad about that but it has been a great days off with him.

Night ya all.

What a bea u tiful day!!!!!!

What a fantastic day!!! Ok ok the start was not great, just can't seem to get up in the mornings, must be something to do with the fact that I am having a terrible time falling asleep. But I am trying to get to bed earlier every night so hopefully I can get back on a normal schedule.

Ok so now back to my great day. I did it!!! Its official!!! I signed Sarah up for homeschooling today!!!!!!!!! I am so excited!! : D. I think she is too but also a little nervous which I am as well. But yea yea yea!!!!! So in saying that as I went to go and grab her last years report card and birth certificate to register her today I could not find either and had to go without them. So I decided that after I dropped S off ( she went swimming and hanging with a friend today) I would go home and work work work on organizing my office. And...Voila...IT'S DONE!!!!!!!

Ok so maybe not Done done but so close I can taste it. I cleaned out the big filing cabinet that I never use except to store junk into and moved it into the school/craft room where it will be much more useful storing school supplies and scrapbooking stuff. Then cleaned out the desk and my little filing cabinet and threw away a couple garbage bags of junk and reorganized it better so it shall be more useful and then...wait for it...are you ready???

I started my very own FCS (filing crate system) I am soooooo pumped about this. Now in my dream world I would have fancy folders and corrospond them for the months and weeks but...I dont live in my dream world. My reality is that I had some new file folders that I had not used up and some that I could recyle so my and my trusty labeler got busy this afternooon and now I have a start to my own fcs. I unfortuately did not fully think this through and never got a grate or something to hold my files in so for now they are stacked neatly up on my desk so my desk still pretty much looks the same but... I have my very own fcs. Can you tell that I am a little pumped up about this? I even have some stuff in them such as my pumpkin stencils in the Sept/Oct file and the snowman soup and cake in the mug labels and recipes in the Nov/Dec files. March/April holds some accounting advice and my St Pattys sash. Things like that. Plus my next weeks file is starting to look full but I am really excited about putting it all into practice. And then maybe just maybe we can get a bit more organized, Something I think we are really going to need with S homeschooling, dance, gymnastics and youth this year.

Well since I did all that today my house looks like a tornado hit it so gonna clean tomorrow and then church and maybe golfing on Sunday. And then monday I get to tackle organizing the school/craft room.

I love it!!!!! Plus after all that I get the huge reward of hubby coming home on tuesday. I love my life!!! God is amazing!!!!!

Night ya all.

Parade, Kids day and 3 in 30

Wow what a day. Get us rush around like a mad person cleaning the fridge and taking the garbage to the curb, then quick shower, then hurry get ready and head out the door to take my girlie to town so she can be in the parade. Can you say slept in? Oops. Well in my defense I just couldn't sleep last night. Lots of tossing and turning not to mention as I said it was 1 before I even got to bed. So Oops again.

However...I got to see my baby in the parade again. This is such a cool experiance getting to see her do that. I waited and waited and then pow she was in front of me and then vroom she was gone. Oh well there is always next year and I did manage to take some pics. :)

On another great note I met with the homeschool register and we are off to town tomorrow again so Sarah can meet with her and we can possibly get her signed up and started. I am so excited about that. I think Sarah has her moments but I believe that there is more good moments than bad ones so I am happy about it.

Then I was reading some blogs today and I stumbed across Lynnette from http://lynnettekraft.com/ and she talked about having a kids day, and I thought what a fantastic idea. I mean we do lots of fun stuff with our children but not ever an entire day just devoted to them so I am going to talk to Rob and see if we can do this come fall. I think once things settle down again it would be a great opportunity to get together and just celebrate them and their lifes. I have 3 blessings here on earth and 3 in heaven waiting for me to mother them when I get there. But for now I want to be the best Mom I can be for my beautiful ones here. So thank you Lynnette for the fantastic idea.

Plus in my blog reading journeys I have come accross the 3 in 30 and I really want to try that for August so now I just have to decide exactly what my first 3 are going to be. I hope to do this every month. Small baby steps first. I know one for sure is going to be about me being more open with my faith and try and let God lead me without me thinking I might know better. So stay tuned.

Well that is all for now, I came closer to finishing my laundry today but not quite so have to finish that off tomorrow but a few more tidying up. So until then.

Night Night.

My baby is home!!

WhooHoooo!! My baby is home. After a very long and emotional 6 days she is back home. And passed out before 930. Poor girl is so wiped out. She had such a busy 6 days with +35 temps and dancing everyday plus all the other extras included. By last night she was sick. I think some of it was just she was so homesick, but I think the majority of it was plain exhaustion. Her poor body was saying enough is enough think about me. She was so happy to be home but I think even more happy to be in her own bed tonight. Heres hoping she has a great nights sleep.

I have been spending more and more time reading different blogs and less and less time on facebook. I am finding out some really useful information. I never even thought of some of the stuff like homemade laundry soap, or that other parents would write about their homeschooling experiances. I must say it has really opened my eyes. I wish I actually some of these people lived close by me so we could meet but reading their blogs and getting to know some info that way is the next best thing. Besides honestly I am really shy.

Well should get to bed now. Back to the normal grind tomorrow of having Sarah home and work on her review of grade 7. Hopefully she is open to hitting the books once again. We are also off to town tomorrow to get her hair done and hopefully make a trip to the library. Partly for her to pick out some books for summer reading and some for me to learn more about homeschooling and faith wrapped in one.

So for now night night.

My baby is coming home tomorrow!

I am so excited. My baby is coming home! Sarah was in L.A. on a dance trip for the past 6 days. Although we have spend more time apart (7days lol ) this time was particulary rough. I am not sure if it is because of everything else going on in my life but I really missed my baby. We have spent alot of time together this last year what with running so much to dance so it seems weird not to have her here all the time. We have decided to try home schooling in the fall and as much as I am nervous about it, I am also very excited about it. Here is a chance to spend time with her, bond with her and help her learn. Get her excited about her education while also maintaining the crazy lifestyle of dance and youth and church related activities.

 It should be a very interesting year with it being just her and  I for the most part with Rob home every other week. My life is changing so fast I can barely keep up.

Now to some more exciting news, I talked with my hubby last night and looks like I will be making some phone calls in the morning to talk to an adoption worker and get the ball rolling. Look like I will be losing my craft room again. :)

I also am getting pumped up about spending some time with just Rob and I next week. We are sorely needing it. With everything that has been going on lately around here and his work stresses not to mention when he gets home he will have been in camp for 19 days, we have been putting each other on the back burner and now it is time for us again. I miss him so much and am very much looking forward to some us time.

Well i guess I should be running off to bed now as am going up to the city to pick up my baby in the afternoon.
Night ya all.