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  1. Cool, cloudy and rainy today. Glad I was able to sit by the pool yesterday:) 

     

    Errands: Children's Place ($1 flipflops!), Target, grocery store

    School planning: never got to it yesterday, a gf texted and asked if she could stop by last night, well, of course you can:)

    Pick up around the house, nothing too strenuous

     

    Dinner: Sloppy Joes, fries or chips and something ytbd

  2. hjffkj, hope you can enjoy yourself at the conference!

    Lizzie, so sorry to hear about med not working for your dd:(  Hope she responds well to the new ones.

     

    It's a beautiful Friday morning! Cool and breezy, ahhhhhhh!;)

     

    Weeded the flower beds last evening; after all that rain yesterday it was easy

     

    Major project: Kitchen windows

    Mop Kitchen floor

    Laundry- 2 loads

    Boys will finish math and latin so need to make up our School Lite summer schedule

    If books come in the mail I can start working on geography course for next year, poolside!;)

     

    Dinner: Grilled Salmon burgers; mac and cheese; peas

     

    Have a great day!!

  3. I know I'm probably the last in line for this thing (don't have a smart phone either but that's for another post :tongue_smilie:) but it sounds really interesting to me. I walk every morning but that's about it as far as organized exercise and it monitors your sleep or something? Obviously, I'm clueless but I'd like to know more. I have a birthday coming up in July and it might be a gift suggestion for dh. Thanks!!

  4. Common areas (living room, dining room, main hallway) have to be tidied up before meals. Food is a wonderful motivator :D  (No, I do not starve my children if the house is a mess; I give them a 15 minute warning before meals and they use the time to tidy the main areas. They just know that no one sits down to eat until the common areas are tidy.)

     

     

    :iagree:  Also, I try to remember to ask them if there is anything they need to do, clean up, etc. when they ask to do an activity; go outside to play with the neighbor, play the Wii, whatever. Again, it's a good motivator to get it done in a timely manner;)

  5. Good Morning! Finally, I have a stay at home day. We'll see how much I get accomplished:)

     

    Promised waffles for breakfast so I have to get on that next

    Laundry; towels in dryer; ds will fold and put away

    Dining room and family room windows

    Clean 3 toilets (good times:P)

    Oversee Latin and Math

    Change ds dental appt.

    Work on school planning

     

    Dinner: LO grilled chicken over pasta; salad and dinner rolls

     

  6. 7th grade

     

    Literature; to be analyzed, discussed and occasional written narrations

     

    The Trojan War

    The Wind in the Willows

    Tom Sawyer

    Shakespeare: As You Like it

    Around the World in 80 Days

     

    Still working on historical and science lists

     

    Read alouds will consist of various missionary biographies for our focus on geography 

     

    And a lot of free reads; they keep a list of these.

  7. Good Morning! 

     

    Today's big event (for the boys:) is a swimming get-together for our co-op. So, in order to get ready for that, I need to:

     

    Get a shower, dress, hair

    one load of laundry

    pack pool bag

    pack lunches 

    get mail together to drop at PO on our way out 

    stop at store on way home for things I didn't get at Costco yesterday

    prepare for our Wednesday kids' program

     

    Dinner: Hamburger/sausage on grill, tortilla chips/salsa and fruit salad

     

    Church 

  8. Got to everything but package for my daughter; must do that tomorrow!

     

    Daughter in law texted this a.m. and asked if they could swim today, well, of course!!;)

     

    So after errands, came home to a houseful and spent the rest of the day by the pool.

     

    They joined us for dinner, thankfully my roast was able to stretch enough to feed 10 people!;) 

  9. Good Morning! It's going to be hot and humid (summer must have arrived:) so I want to get as much as I can done this morning, so this afternoon it's sitting by the pool time;)

     

    Rachel, Nature Journal Art camp sounds very cool!

    Amy, prayers for dh's interviews! 

     

    Laundry (2 loads)

    make list for Target and Costco

    Prepare pkg. to mail to daughter in MO

    Go to Target, Costco, Post Office and School District Admin to drop off portfolios

    Get roast in crock-pot

    Maybe do some school planning while sitting by pool this afternoon

     

    Dinner: Roast, mashed pot, lima beans and dinner rolls

     

    Have a great Tuesday!!

  10. Melissa, I'm guessing your son will make out just fine, boys love adventures! ;)

     

    Plant flowers that I never got to over the weekend DONE

    Hang front door wreath DONE

    Marinate chicken for dinner DONE

    Laundry (going now) DONE

    Meals DONE

    Make lists for errands tomorrow (Target, Costco etc)

    Listen to Latin lesson with boys; supervise math DONE

    Regular cleaning plus deep cleaning project: windows (probably take this week and next to do all of them) DONE

    Summer schedule mostly DONE

     

    Dinner: Grilled Chicken with peach salsa, cilantro rice

     

    Hopefully, the weather will cooperate this week and they boys can actually get into the pool my husband cleans so faithfully:)

     

    I think that's enough for one day :001_cool: .

     

    Not too shabby, it's amazing what one can accomplish when you make a list and put it out there for everyone to see :lol: .

    Soon off to take a shower, sticky from the day's work. Then crawling into bed with a good book, night everyone!

  11. I'm using some of her book suggestions, since she did a bunch of the work already for me, and I'm inherently lazy. :)

     

    Based on that schedule, I requested "Free the Children." I'm going to read it and see if it's a good book for us to start out with, since she uses it in the first week or so. I read the synopsis on Amazon, and it looks good!

     

    I'm also scoping out the free Geography booklist from Barefoot Meandering, which is awesome because it labels the young adult and Newbery Award winners. My son is a great reader now, but he was a delayed reader, and his vocabulary development is where it shows. So I need to mix up the less challenging young adult reading material with the stuff that stretches him. Scheduling something like Kon-Tiki in the first week would make him run for the hills!

     

     

    Great resource! Thanks for sharing! I am putting together my own 7th grade geography course this year and all the suggestions are wonderful! I'm beginning to think I can actually pull this off:)

  12. :grouphug:  Melissa  :grouphug:  I'm sorry. Can you plan something fun for you to look forward to each day? Doesn't have to be big just something you might not do when dh is home? Just a suggestion:)

     

    We are going to worship with my son, dil and 4 grands at their church this morning. I always look forward to that:)

    My mother is hosting Father's Day; we all bring something. I'm bring Texas Sheet Cake

    Hopefully, we'll be home in time and I will have enough energy left to plant those flowers! 

     

    Have a great Sunday everyone!

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