This week's update

Since about one time a week is all I seem to have time for this blog these days.

School is still going mostly OK. I'm a little dumbfounded that Sonia- my absolutely most difficult child to get school done with when we were homeschooling- is getting her entire week's worth of homework done in 1 night. Joey takes longer with more pouting involved. Their level of homework has essentially evened out, but it takes him longer to sit through the process of getting it done so he pouts that Sonia gets to "do what she wants" which of course is read while he'd rather be out riding his bike instead of reading.

Kayla hit a bump in the road of life this week. She came home yesterday saying that her friends from her class told her they don't want to be her friend anymore. I sensed something brewing on Monday when she said they were having a "battle" on the playground on Monday, but I thought it was more of a game. Today they said they can't be friends. I'm a bit annoyed, remembering that happened to me in school, but I was 13 when that happened. And I might still carry a little grudge about that. 

Anyway, in true Kayla optimism, she said she's getting more and better friends and said "it's ok, that happened to Joe in the Bible" (uh.. Joe? who was Joe? is she talking about Job or about Joe and the multicolor coat that was sold by his brothers?) I dunno. Anyway, she thinks God'll take care of her and that she's in good company, so we'll go with it. And besides if her siblings sell her into slavery, I'll wring their necks.

I'm waiting for Mr Dishwasher repair guy, which is why I'm sitting here. I'm afraid to load and run the dishwasher since he might actually need to get into it and the laundry just isn't making me want to move off the couch. The rest of the house isn't in too horrid shape since we had a babysitter here Monday for our growth group night and I hate having anyone see the house a mess, so it was clean 1 day ago and most of that day the kids spent in school.

I've also discovered Kindle for our Iphones. It was free, which was cool, and even cooler is there are free books on it- many classics and ... the 2011 fiscal year US government budget.. in case you're looking for a good headache, indigestion and a mild case of insomnia. It's not in budget form. No siree. It's a Three- thousand page (kindle pages) essay.  I'm sure congress and the president (who's responsible for the opening essay) didn't actually consult an accountant for how you make a budget or there'd be something like columns of numbers- one for red, one for black- and a line item description for each number. Nope. I can't find any of that here. A few graphs, some babble about green house gasses, GDP and depression, and why they need to encourage small business.. but actual numbers and math that you'd expect in a budget. I can't find it. Of course I haven't poured over the 3179 pages in their entirety. It could be hidden in there somewhere.

But aside from the Budget there were many classics- Jane Austin, in particular, Little Women, The Scarlet Letter. A bunch of other stuff I'm not sure I'd ever read, but now I always have something to read while waiting in the school pick up lines or at the side of soccer practice. The letters are too small to try to read it on the treadmill. At least for my pathetic eyes. I've been debating hitting the large type isle at the library some nights. And now the tread mill is giving me a "lube belt" error. I've lubed the belt. Twice. grumble. It's out of warranty and I'm not sure what to do about it. I'll probably end up calling the support number and seeing what they say. After dishwasher guy shows up. If he does show up.

And now that the majority of the house and landscaping projects are done, Larry decided to splurge and get a DVR. It was supposed to be $5 more per month with our cable company. Supposed to. Anyway.. today it was so cool to be able to rewind Mickey mouse for JM. He generally gets to watch a little Mickey while I'm catching up on email and every.single.time. he asks to watch it again and I have to explain that it's over and you can't rewind it. Now I can. Yippeee.. I can get 40 mintues of peace from Mickey today. Well.. could. Cept he's bored of TV  in about 32 minutes and wants to play on the computer.

So.. With that I'll be turning it over to him so I can do something more productive than rambling in type online.