Since we have started school again we've been doing a Monday, Wednesday, Thursday schedule (with the exception of Math every day.) Today Luke and Isabel finished their math worksheets before I was even up out of bed. Now they are playing at a friend's house and later my good friend will take them to their children's church Christmas choir practice. With only two at home now I guess that means I should either clean something or take a nap (Gee, I wonder which one I'll choose.)
Joey has been doing some crazy online shopping lately. I guess being a computer programmer and being surrounded every day at work by other computer nerds (I mean geniuses, of course) he knew about all kinds of online black Friday (or was it black Monday for online) deals. One day we got seven packages and the next day when we got four more the mail lady told me she wants to be at our house for Christmas. Yesterday Joey even got his new bike in the mail. This is just an extra long story to say that Joey bought me an MP3 player online and has introduced me to the world of podcasts (I know I know, welcome to five years ago.) Hazel is such a slow eater so in the night when I am feeding her I listen to a podcast or two. We also love to download stories for the kids to listen to in the car. Our favorites are Doctor Floyd and Story Nory.
I was worried about starting school this week but knew that having my kids on a schedule would really help. It has. What also helps a lot is that Joey has been getting the kids up, ready, and working on their math in the morning to give me some extra time to sleep, feed Hazel or just to get myself together.
Luke has been asking me about World War 1 lately and it made me realize that I sure don't know much about it. On the library's website I have requested a lot of children's books on the subject. I know that my grandmother has a memory of the celebration of the end of the war in 1918 so I wrote her a letter requesting a written account of it.
It is always more difficult to know and figure out what Isabel is interested in. Right now I am reading the book, Kirsten's Surprise: A Christmas Story (American Girls Collection.) Isabel seems to be enjoying it and so far I think it is a great way to teach history or just time periods.
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I was so tired of sitting around waiting because of what if, so we went out last night to the Bellagio to walk around their amazing garden that changes every few months. Here are a few pictures. They also had huge pumpkins on the ground, a beautiful water mill and gigantic glass leaves hanging from the ceiling. Isabel liked the idea that we shrunk into fairies when we were there.
These venus fly traps would open and shut.
His eyes and eyebrows moved.
Human sized handmade insect/folklore creatures.
I mostly have a better attitude because this morning my doctor said I was dialated to a four and fifty percent effaced (for those of you who speak pregnancy.) For those of you who don't, don't worry about it because ultimately it doesn't mean anything but for all my pregnancies I have so wished that it did mean something. My doctor tried to persuade me to come in tomorrow morning and be induced but I will hold off until Monday morning....(because I am a masocist.)
