What can I say?!

The haircuts. Yes. It was 4:30 Wednesday night. Supper was on the counter (as the dining rm table is loaded down with stuff) I looked at Kelly and went "oh no". I look at Katie and gasped. My lovely daughters - both of whose hair were growing out, Kelly's bangs had just gotton long enough to stay back out of her face - had decided to chop their hair. Kelly's was cry worthy. Katie's wasn't soooo bad. I just didn't know what to do. Do I just try to fix it? Do I take them to the mall? Do I just let it be since we have an hour to finish supper and get ready for VBS? I decided to do what I could and let it be for the night. Well, @ 5:15 I'm in the bathroom cutting hair because there really is no easy fix. Kelly now has "steps" going up the sides, REALLY short bangs, and a buzz spot at the top of her head (right where her hair swirls so it's not really noticiable - until it starts growing back!), and a shorter section in the back kinda blends in. Katie's is cropped up to the base of her skull, w/ spiky bangs. She does look cute with short hair but I really wanted it to grow back out! As long as they have headbands on, it just looks like their hair is pushed back and they look acceptable again...going to have to find some nice wide headbands.

Oh. And yes we were late(r) than usual for VBS. If I could get anywhere on time I would probably faint from shock!

Today. I was going to have my yardsal:today, tomorrow and Saturday. Was completely not ready for today. Couldn't even get on Star Gazette to post the ad yesterday. So, no one has showed up today and I'm still only 90% ready...but the ad is now posted and more signs are going up tonight and I've got cardboard to put a sign at the bottom of the hill. I know we are in a terrible rummage sale location, but now at least things are better sorted and I will be able to do the Horseheads sales on the 25th at the aunt's house.

Came inside for a coffee break and to do some dishes and clothes and make some bread. Got the dishes going, got the bread makings in the machine(yes, a machine. Not by hand), and went downstairs to take the clothes from last night of the line (my clothes line is in the basement due to: rain, rain, rain, dust, dust, dust, and stinky pigs!). Hung up the next batch and decided to throw the pants in the dryer. Brought them upstairs, put the in the dryer and started the dryer. It ran for all of 3 seconds....hmmm....tried it again, and again, and again. Checked the door, the outlet, even tripped the ground-break. Nothing. Sigh. My dryer broke. Called mom and laughed about it all as I laid clothes all over the counter to dry.

So now, pants are on the counter, stuff is on the table and supper will be served....wherever a spot can be found.

Just laugh. All you can do on days like this.

My head hurts and tonight is day 4 of wrangling the 3 & 4 yr olds at VBS. LOL. I do love them though...even the ones I want to put over my knee! :)

Spaghetti for supper w/ fresh bread. My standard fall back meal.

Now if only the girls will take a nap so they are not grumpy tonight. One can dream.

Just laugh. :)

Homeschool Update

So I'm sure you are all sitting on the edge of your seats wondering "how has homeschool been going for the Morse family?" Well, no longer shall I keep you in suspense! :)

Day1: Weeping and gnashing of teeth
Day2:Confusion and crying and tempers
Day 3: I think we found a level ground.....

On day 3 our schedule was going to be completely messed up, so I said, let's just get math and Bible done.
I had been trying to: get myself up and do my devotions before everyone else was up and then get the girls up (Rusty usually is awake by then) get them breakfast, and teeth brushed, and dressed and then down to Bible and the rest of the day. On this day that would be messed up: I got up and got myself ready, then Katrina was up and ready but Kate and Kell were still sleeping...I took Trina down and got Math out of the way, got the other two up and ready and then did Bible with all of them. I worked much better, even on Rusty's part as the time I really needed to be spending with Katrina was not interrupted because he had the other 2 to play with and it was first in the day.
The rest of the subjects are basically reading materials so we are going to put them aside till winter months and concentrate on getting the math done - as by the time 30 min are done we seem to be at the end of the line! Katrina does not struggle in school work, but she just does not like math so she makes it a struggle.

There it is. Our schooling experience so far. More, much more to come!

Ramblings

So I'm in a rambling mind-set...which generally is the case when I actually log on to blog - not that many read this, but hey, maybe someone will gain some insight into my life sometime!

So, I'm trying to get everything put together for the new home school year - we start up July 14 and will be done May 14, 2010. Interesting how the dates fell. We go for the longest deration (is that spelling right? I don't know - never was my strong subject - doesn't look right.....oh look, spell check! Yep, it hi-lights it as being wrong, but it doesn't give me the correct spelling - hmmm...maybe two 'r's?? let's try it.....derration - yeah, that works! no actually it doesn't hmmmm......oh! right click, yep, there's the correct spelling!!!!) okay so anyways the longest dUration, is 5 wks. and we have full weeks off...none of this day here day there. But our weeks off we are going to fill with fun educational field trips. Excited.

Rain rain all the time. My garden is turn into a pond. Serioiusly. Standing water in areas. Blah. I did get out tonight to week around the tomato plants, and then was able to put down hay around them to hopefully to keep the weeds down - now I just need to go trim them a bit. Looks like slugs are eating my bean leaves. Not happy about that. Has anyone else noticed the abundance of slugs this year??!! They're are driving me crazy - although not as much as the rain. I think I have a bit of an understanding of what it would be like to live in London, or Seatle. I saw a blurb on London one time and the person was saying how they just have to go out and live despite the rain - begining to understand that.
Did find out that my garden shoes are going to have to be replaced....ducktape won't fix the problems anymore. Does anyone have a pair of size 8 tennis shoe type of slip ons that have seen better days and are just sitting in the back of the closet ?? I really don't want to go buy a new pair just to make them into garden shoes - have that same problem with barn clothes.

All out of icecream - the Schwan man comes tomorrow - but have some yummy black caps in the fridge, and some oh so yummy peaches and strawberries - maybe just mix them all w/ some whipped cream - ORRRRR - I have some French Van. yogurt. hmmmm.....YUM!

So, now that I have rambled on and on (use to LOVE doing that on the Carmichael's answering machine) I will leave this and go to the kitchen.