Flybabies October 1

I feel a bit better today, but still stuffy and coughing. I'm going to call the dentist and see what they say I should do (cancel or not).

Most everything hinges on that. I need to unload the camper (not much stuff this time) and clean it out (vacuum and mop), put away Sam's stuff. My yard needs to be mowed really bad. Will see what the day holds in store.

Good Morning
Andrea, are your parents visiting for a while?

Glad you’re on the mend Jenny, I had the crud last week but I’m feeling better today.

Shaun, Disney! I’m so jealous, how long are you all staying?

Heidi, you’re as organized as I remember How have you been?

Well I do have a TADA for today so I'm going to post that and then my biggest TADA for the day....
After this I'm off to bed! Bed before midnight, can't beat it!

TADA
*homeschooled
*cut grass in the front yard
*hung Halloween lights (I put out the Scarecrows last week)
*finished fall decorating inside
*painted pumpkins with the kids
*cut 3/4 of the back yard before dark (I'll finish up tomorrow)
*swept/mopped kitchen and dinning room
*cleaned blinds in the dinning room
*washed table cloth and put back on the table
*BBR

Seems like I get a little more done when I know I'll be TADA'ing so I'm going to try to stick with it this time. (Jenny can give me a kick in the pants if I don't post)

Sorry about the work stress, Andrea. I really feel for you.

Glad to hear you're better Jenny. I felt pretty crappy this weekend but starting last night I am clearly on the mend. It may help (?) that my new antidepressant feels like speed compared to the old one, which made me feel like a lumbering old bear. Now if I could just fall asleep before dawn . . .

Better get to work. Tons to do in the next couple of weeks before . . . da da DAH! . . . our trip to Disney World!!

Shaun
www.redseahomeschool.wordpress.com

Great pictures Andrea, the kids have grown SO much!

Hope your feeling better with your tooth Jenny. I had all 4 of mine pulled at once, all my wisdom is gone

Not quite finished with my PODA but I'll TADA what I've done in case I don't make it back later

TADA
*took my Mom to work
*Morning routine
*Finished cutting grass
*Read with Trey
*pulled down morning glory from the fence
*spiffied in the kitchen, living room, dinning room, and family room

Still need to work on my bedroom and Trey needs to finish some copywork.

http://www.xanga.com/homeschoolingthem

Andrea, I thought I remembered that your paretns had an apartment near you. I'm sure that's nice.
My Mom is living with us until her house sells in SC, she's been out here for a year and she's doing great. The first 11 months her boyfriend was with her, a total loser, but he's gone now thanks to a 27 hour straight trip to SC I was more than Happy to make! :lol:

Ok, qucik PODA
*take mom to work
*finish grass in back yard
*pull down dead morning glory from fence (not totally dead, it'll be back next year)
*homeschool
*Clean master bedroom

Gotta run get Miss Savannah dressed. You ladies have a wonderful day.

Andrea, thanks for the link to your blog! Loved it!

Hi Heidi and Jamie Lea!

I got the camper unloaded this morning. Well, most of it. I'm on strike on doing EVERYTHING for the kids, I'm making the girls bring their own stuff in. Which will have to wait til tonight, or, uh, tomorrow? Let's see, they have play practice right after school, then there is a home volleyball game after that. Soooo, sheesh, busy afternoon just like that. Looks like dinner will be concession stand (yay!!).

My mouth is kinda sore after having that wisdom tooth yanked out, I'm eating some grits this morning. Have to eat something before drugging myself up, right? Got laundry to do, and I bought more tubs at Walmart yesterday, need to fill those up and move them to the other house (though I should really organize and sort all the baby stuff a bit better first). Need to mop and do bathrooms, too. And the lawn maybe. Then ballgames tonight. DD10 is so excited, now that she is in middle school, she likes to sit with all the big kids on the north side of the bleachers and cheer/facepaint, etc with them.

Time to run!

Oh, we mowed. Drew sat in my lap and we did alot of mowing today. Yard (back and front), and several areas outside the yard that had 5 foot tall weeds. 2 loads of laundry done. Dinner made and cleaned up. And I'm beat. Hopefully tonight I'll get to sleep in MY bed (Drew and I got the sofa last night. DH complains that Drew kicks him in the back too much, so we gave him a break last night).

I ate real food today. Grits for breakfast, then BLTs for lunch and speghetti for dinner. Nice to eat again. Mouth barely sore tonight. yay!

TADA
morning routine
subbed all day
read paper
sorted mail
dinner
homework
DD bath
shopped with Ds(dress shoes and belt)

Jaimielea-pot roast came out really tender this time,doesn't happen too often!

jenny-so did you beat your rivals at volleyball? No Haz mat drill at our school,just fire and tornado drills

Insomnia wearing off,better get to sleep since I am subbing again tomorrow or is that today??!!

Heidi

test?

Jamie Lea
http://www.xanga.com/homeschoolingthem

Sorry about the Harvest fest today, Heidi. Will it still be going on tomorrow? We have our Peanut Festival here next week, which is the start of MY Christmas season. I can usually find a few gifts there. Oh, and freshly made kettle corn. Yummy!!!

Me and the kids all went to town for the wedding planning meeting. Almost as soon as I got there I got a text from DH that our dog is at the neighbors (a mile away) and according to her, he was killing her goats. Well, he wasn't. I got FIL to go over there and bring him home and chain him up til I could get home myself. He hadn't touched anything, but the cranky old hag proceeded to tell FIL that HE needed to keep him penned up on a concrete pad (FIL told HER that it wasn't HIS dog, that this was the first offense, and it wasn't HER place to tell him or me how to take care of my dog. Go FIL!!). I got home and helped FIL hook the dog pen up to the electric fencer. Guess he won't be getting out now! LOL! Poor thing, though.

That screwed up most of my day, which had not only included the meeting I left in the middle of, but a birthday party DD8 was supposed to attend, because I'm not going all the way back to town. Well, not like there is a lack of things around the house for me to do, right? LOL!

Small TADA from yesterday:
*cleaned windows in living room and kitchen (including sill in kitchen, which was a wreck).
*a few other zone chores in kitchen, like cleaned the oven, stove top (with easy off), counters, microwave.
*vacuumed LR and picked up stuff in there. The kids things seem to grow legs and walk out in the living room to live. They must, apparently NONE of the kids brought them out (dripping with sarcasm here)
*loaded up my pickup with a bunch of trash and empty boxes (which DH got to go dump today, since he wanted to use that pickup today).
*two loads of laundry (but not put away yet)

I have some desk chores to do still (bills mostly). I'm sure I'll find other things to do as well. hehehe.

Good Evening!

TADA
morning routine
read paper
subbed half day
bank
lunch
Aldi run
sorted mail
dinner
watched Surf's Up with kids(it was awful)

We are all off til tuesday here. So friday's PODA involves decorating for Halloween and some cleaning. May go to a harvest fest Saturday,watch football on Sunday, and DS has an ortho appt on Monday. That's the bare bones outline so far.

Jenny-how did the biology test go? How many bows do you have to make? Are they for favors or to put on the pews?

Andrea-I don't scrap but a good friend does. Today at Aldi they had really nice scrapping sets. Maybe yours does too.

Better run,see you guys in the morning

Heidi

I remember back when I couldn't keep up with the posts over here, it's so slow now, what's up with that?

TADA
*Morning routine
*homeschooled
*took my Mom to work
*cleaned out a purse I'm not using anymore and stored (something I've meant to do for a LONG time)
*spiffied everywhere
*cooking dinner as I type

Jenny, that haz-mat drill sounds wild, we never did anything like that in school. Most we ever had was a tornado drill.

As for me, I'm MIA because I am desperately trying to complete taxes, meet deadlines, and prepare for our trip to Disney World on Wednesday. I'm psyched!!

Hope you sickies (and sick kids) start feeling better. That's great news about your cat, Andrea!

I'm off to pick up the fanny packs and socks I ordered from REI online. No blisters for me!

Shaun
www.redseahomeschool.wordpress.com

Jenny-sorry about the game,maybe you should brand the buffalo of theirs with a Haz Mat symbol!!! LOL

Andrea- good for you about the housekeeper! Hope you enjoyed the weekend away,did it involve the Yankees???

DD came down with a fever after school and I gave her another dose of tylenol just a bit ago(that's why I am awake,not insomnia this time)I hope she doesn't get what DS had for about a week. He missed 2 days of school and was really coughing his head off. No strep at least. So I plan on laying low this weekend so DD can rest,etc.

DH has painted the outside of our house this past week. It went from white siding that was very faded to a light yellow beige color. It looks so much better now. It was needed for such a long time. We had been concentrating on indoor renovations since we moved in 5 years ago and never got to the siding. So now it's done. And they managed NOT to squash my perennial beds too!!!Yay

Well,have a good weekend Everyone

Heidi

I should clarify: the Haz-mat drill wasn't really FOR the school. It was for the hospital, police, and fire departments. They used some of the students for actors to play wounded. They had scripts to follow for the EMTs (one had "chemical burns", another was critical and he told my husband "I'm hurt and can't talk to you"). They had to follow all these protocol procedures. Most of the students had business as usual, just a select few got to participate in the drill. DH had a blast (since it was all fake, ya know) and said he learned alot.

As for the game last night: we lost. It was heartbreaking. This school has such bad sportsmanship (they brought their mascot, a buffalo, to OUR homecoming a few years ago. We won that game and they got him out of there before we could go brand him). It was down to game 5 and tied til the very end. In volleyball, you have to win by 2 points. They finally made it two ahead of us, 14-16. There is alot of history behind these two schools together, it was really a letdown for us, especially after winning under the exact same circumstances Tuesday night with our other rival school.

Anyway, it's a busy day today, but not for flying. Homecoming. Junior High starts at 1pm, Varsity at 4, coronation stuff in between the two games. DH will be working the ambulance, of course. And I have little cheerleaders to coach. Drew and I are STILL sick, so I'm not going to attempt much around here today.

Good Afternoon!

Jenny-maybe whatever you had has turned in to a secondary infection and you might need antibiotics. Hope you can kick it real soon.

TADA
morning routine
read paper
subbed til lunch
bank deposit
paid bills

PODA
sort mail
put away laundry
vacuum
dinner
homework
bath

Heidi

Here I am, alone again. LOL!

I still can't shake this cold. Ugh, hate stuffy noses and coughs!!

Today I'm taking Drew to the dr for his 18 month well baby and shots (just a few months late. He will be 2 next month! LOL!). I'll be gone for a while, see ya later.

*lol*
Poor Drew I hate baby shots.

DH's took the day off so probably not much flying going on here today. Darn, I really wanted to clean *lol*

I went to yard sales this weekend and added 25+ books to our growing home library for less that $20! Yes, I'm quite pleased with myself

Heidi, how are your kids? We've been sick around here, I think we're all ok now but Savannah was the last to get it so she's not 100% yet.

I'm so jealous! I wanna go to Disney World!! I haven't been since I used to live down there. Have a fun and safe trip.

I working on a few projects around the house. I finally put all boxes of baby clothes and other items babyrelated in tubs, then discovered that the lids are the wrong size (they were right there with the tubs, one would think they would be the right size). So next trip to town I'll exchange those.

Load of laundry in the dryer now. I need to stick to the one load a day thing, not many days off then do a thousand loads. Kitchen is fairly clean, beds are made. I still can't shake this crud stuff. And I'm so tired. Wonder if I can talk Drew into a nap later on. Oh, but I have homework and a lab and threaded discussion to do for biology due by tonight. Kids have play practice after school, and I really want to see the volleyball game (home game). When did life get so busy? LOL!

Laters.

Well, I skipped the nap and did all my biology homework instead. And I stayed after school for the volleyball games, didn't get home til 8 (I make kids do their homework during Junior High or JV games). All three teams (JV, JH, and Varsity) won, go Broncos!! Not much else with flying yesterday.

Today, need to fold a load of laundry and do another. Not sure what else. It's not that their is a lack of things to do, just haven't decided where to start first. LOL!

I'm going to town today. Yes, I just went the other day. But a friend whose son is getting married invited me to a meeting for planning the wedding on Saturday (ie, need ideas to make it a nice wedding while being very, very cheap), then asked me if I can make bows. So, I need to go to Hobby Lobby and find a bow maker thingie and learn to make bows. This is a very small wedding (a rather unexpected one, if you know what I mean. The bride is still in high school). It's a very tight budget wedding and I did offer to help out with anything if they needed it, since they are pretty good friends of ours. I have my paycheck (whoohoo, $60 last month!), so I'm going to cash that and use it.

I'll find other things to make the trip worthwhile, too. Like a new vaporizer (mine spits everywhere). And a frostie at Wendy's.

Funny, you talking about the cold already, Andrea. It's still in the upper 80's here during the day. LOL! Our first frost date is usually around the middle of October, but the forecast doesn't show anything lower than 45 for the next ten days. New Mexico is so strange. I've seen it snow on Halloween, then there are years when it stays warm up into November and December. We've had Christmases with a foot of snow, and some in the 70's.

Glad you got alot of stuff done anyway, Heidi.

We ditched church today. I just didn't feel like getting everyone dressed up and go to town again. Selfish, I know.

I did take care of a couple of procrastination things yesterday, I had to order checks for the computer AND to write. I realized I didn't have enough to print all the bills this month. LOL! My poor dog is still locked in his electric cell, I'll try to get him out and play with him some today. I need to take some pictures of some things around here for my mother. And how is it that the same living room I worked hard on Friday was a mess again last night? Makes me not want to try very hard.

It's going to be a beautiful day outside today, should barely hit 80. If the wasps aren't too bad, maybe I can get some outdoor work done.