Wednesday Night

Our Wednesday night program at church has been working through the 10 Commandments. I'm the director for the K-2 kids group, and for some strange reason I can't seem to get a lot of people to share the teaching duties, so it's usually my turn. So last night we finally got to "Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery". And you can guess who got to teach that one. I came at it more from the angle of Keeping Promises and I think I only mentioned the word "Adultery" once in the middle of a very fast sentence, leaving no room for any of the kids to jump in with their ever so helpful questions or explanations. Whew...I'm glad that's over! And I don't think I'm going to get any calls from parents! For anyone else teaching such a lesson, Horton Hatches the Egg is very useful - and time consuming!

Spring is Coming!

I'm happy to report that the first robin of the year was spotted in our backyard this afternoon. I can't tell you how much joy this brings me! Just a few more short weeks until I can send the kids outside to play. I'll bet our neighbors are looking forward to it, too. Tee hee.

Fridays at IKEA

So Friday is art class day for my girls. On a good day when I have my ducks in a row (and quite frankly sometimes when I don't, like today) I drop the girls at art and J-Man and I make a bee-line for IKEA. The kid loves Small Land, and I love an hour to drink coffee and read a book without paying for a babysitter. Everybody wins. So today I wandered the store for awhile before I settled in with my book, and I ended up coming home with a new toilet seat. (I bet you're wishing your life could be as exciting as mine, aren't you?) When we got home I deposited said seat on the floor by the door and ran upstairs to take care of something. When I came back, the kids had taken the seat from the package and were trying it out on the living room floor. Which makes me wonder a couple of things....what's wrong with my kids....and who else's rear end has touched that seat? Lysol, here I come!

Hello!

To the small handful of people who may be reading this post - Hello! I've been a wife for almost 14 years and a mom for 1o. We homeschool our kids, and with that comes almost a daily string of fun, frustrating, wonderful, annoying things. Along with the normal daily life stuff that we all deal with, of course. I created this blog mostly for someplace to share and vent. I'll refer to my husband and kids with generic terms: I have a 10-year-old girl (Big K), a 6-year-old girl (Little K) and a 5-year-old boy (J-Man). I also have a cat, who doesn't care about her privacy, so we'll just call her Emily. Thanks for dropping by!