I need to post here first

It seems I get all my internet stuff done first and then there is no time left over for posting on my blog. Maybe I will start posting here first then read email and if there is time left over then I can read others blogs. We will see. I soooo enjoy reading about others lives! Yep, I admit, I'm nosy!

JK and JA are so very very busy with school. It seems they have more work to do than they have time but they chose to take the classes they took so they will just have to figure it out. JK needs to figure out there is not time to read whatever he wants to anymore. He needs to read the assignments first and then read leisure stuff when he gets done. JA does pretty good and gets most of his stuff done but he also needs to buckle down a bit more. They have memorized "To be or not to be" this week. They are working on elocution, that is speaking in public, using it. This week they have to memorize the famous part of Romeo and Juliet "Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art though Romeo" That will be fun"! LOL I'm going to have a couple of romanticists hanging around my home for awhile!

M is learning about Egypt. She is doing great at going above and beyond. She has read most of the books on the additional reading list and is studying all the books that we have around the house on Egypt. Last week she got to dress up like an Egyptian princess, make up and everything! She is on the verge of going beyond me in math. She is doing fractions and fractions is something I've always struggled with. I told her her brothers or her Dad may have to take over very soon.

A is thoroughly enjoying her art class. She made a tooth fairy box and a bag last week. She very desperately wants to learn how to read but doesn't want to put in the time to learn. She also memorizes everything really quickly so I never know if, when she reads to me, it is words she has memorized or if she is really reading it.

S is just S. She seems to follow in her sisters footsteps with everything so it's hard to know what her interests are. Her birthday is Sunday and it was very hard to pick gifts that I know SHE will like and not what her big sister would love and therefore S would like. We bought some things last night so hopefully we will be ok.

JZ is still on the verge of walking but just not there yet. He can stand for long periods of time and take 4-5 steps but thats about it. I was watching another little guy at church that is 2 days older than JZ and he is walking so well. His Mom had to take him out of the meeting and I watched as she was able to send him out the door in front of her and she was carrying only her bag. Yeah, I have to admit a bit of jealousy. Otoh, the list of words he can say is growing by leaps and bounds. The other day JK got in the car and JZ says to him "Kaboom"! LOL He also said "Grandma" yesterday. He is signing a ton, as well.

As for midwifery, it's going. Thats about it. I did have some good news, though. The midwife I'm working under told me I was going to be crazy busy with births in October. I am getting much better at find fetal heart tones and measuring bellies. Not so great yet at figuring out baby position but I haven't had a lot of chances to try yet.

For now I'm busy trying to get my house completely organized. I'm tired of the "for now"s. The little things that I put someplace and say "I will put this here for now and figure out what to do with it later". I'm nearly done with my bedroom and about 1/2 done with my bathroom. We got the garage nearly done but we can't finish it until some things are done in the house, so it's ok. It's close enough that I could park my car in there with just a few adjustments.

Oh, yeah, my trip to Vegas. Lots of fun. Especially the drive down by myself with my 14mo! LOL Actually he did really good. We left very early in the morning so he slept through the majority of the drive. I had plenty of time to get down there so it wasn't a problem the few times I had to stop to take care of him. Unfortunately when we got there we had a huge mishap. I put him in the stroller for just a second while I turned around to get some things to load into the stroller and he fell out. He cut open the inside of his lip really bad. I was not thrilled about finding an instacare by myself in Vegas so I didn't get it stitched up and it looks like I made the right decision because it looks fine now. He just spent the whole time in Vegas looking like he had a pouty lip!

It's been a crazy few weeks

School has started but we have been busy with all the back to school activities and meetings. We've also been busy cleaning out our garage so that we can park in there this winter. Unfortunately now the mess is inside my house! LOL So now I get to spend the next week getting it all put away.

JA started an English class today, AC was supposed to start a craft class today but the teachers daughter was sick so she will start next week, the boys youth group classes will start this Thursday and M's history class will also start on Thursday. Wednesday I have a staff meeting with the midwife I'm apprenticing with, Thursday is our Anniversary. We are going up to our family cabin to spend the night. Without my baby! That will be weird. AC's birthday was Monday but we are having her party on Saturday. So.....we have a very busy week planned! Next week will also be very busy.

The best news is that I've lost 10 pounds! Yippee!