Hey-ya friends!! My life is totally on cruise control right now, I'm a victim of my circumstances- something like that...or maybe not....
- First up, I have achieved total slacker level in my own photo challenge. Um, I'll catch up, maybe tomorrow. The problem, after being sick- it's kind of cold here in Orange County and I like to sit next to the fireplace in the dining room, sitting at the table with my laptop. Problem is, all my photos and photo editing software are on my desktop in the front living room. The cold front living room. I'm kind of disinclined to change my location.
- Our homeschool plans/curriculum have been in a state of flux. I am contemplating if I should do a side-by-side comparison of what we started of with and what we actually ended up using....it will make a busy page even more messier though, I am conflicted. Here's a teaser, I've ditched MTC Grammar for Shurley Grammar. Does the change in educational philosophy just make your head spin? Honestly, I loved MTC, but the format was a more -read with a child one-on-one and discuss. In this crazy household, it just kept getting pushed off. Shurley Grammar has worksheets and I can do the lesson with all 3 kids together. !worksheets! [yes, I am forever a worksheet girl]
- My car theft saga: Photo evidence here * March photo a day: mom-my-ride Back -story: I now have the nicest car I have ever had. It's a 2004 with a bucket-load of miles on it, but it is fully loaded to the max. I told Sky it was all over, luxury all the way, from now on, baby! I had it 2 months maybe- and it got broken into, on our driveway, and the fancy radio/navigation system touch -screen- wonder was stolen. Top it all off, this was when I was really sick, so I was sick in bed and Sky called home to tell me. After I got over feeling depressed that I was not destined to have nice things {extreme pity-party in action} I snapped out of it determined to replace it and move on. I was also determined on some righteous karma wishful-thinking....
I had it all figured out: The radio actually didn't work all the time and had lately started shutting off when I tried to use the nav system. it was starting to do this when I was changing music functions, too. My great all-consuming hope/dream was that the thieves would go on to sell the radio on craigslist, sell it to a gang-member and then get their tuckus kicked when the gang person realized the radio was broken.
You're a little psyched with me, I can tell! Karma, got to love it!
Sky returned home from church and I filled him in on my great hope. He looked at me, a little confused/concerned and said...
"I just prayed for them, they really must need the Lord." ....okay.... I realized with sudden clarity that it was glaringly obvious which one of us was reading their Bible and which one of us hadn't been...
So okay, I prayed too. Is it bad that a teeny tiny part of me still kind of likes the whole craigslist scenario?? Don't answer...
- I am getting a lot of visits to my blog because of a google search for River Song's red shoes. This makes me a bit giddy. You can see her shoes in action here *River Song video
- I made oatmeal chocolate chip cookies with way less sugar. Brilliant move, the result was the kids left them alone. Score! I will share my recipe as soon as I can get it together enough to take nice photos of the cookies. My name is Jenn and I have a homeschool curriculum habit problem and a picky photography hang-up, I am seeking an appropriate 12 step program.
- I actually made three things on my pinterest boards!! Woot! I made the crock-pot French dip sandwiches [great but lacking in flavor, must figure out a spice remedy] the pancake apple rings [made them with gluten free pancake mix-they are an awesome snack!] and then tonight the Greek lemon chicken. [Sky thought they were too sour, but he ate the skin, I did not eat the skin and liked them] I think I need to make a pinterest board titled "pins I've actually done" Here are my boards - henjenca on pinterest
- everyone but me it seems, has seen The Hunger Games. Big pout. Meg and Josie went with friends on Saturday night. Sky is going to take me hopefully tomorrow. He has no real interest in it, but knows I want to see it badly. He's a good man <3
Hope your week is beautiful, bloggy friends! :)