And we homeschool

Three year old counting

1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10...11...12...13...14...15...51...52...53...54...55...54...55...56...

57...58...59...30......

too funny.

Christmas dresses 2011

The great Christmas dress project has begun. Here are the beautiful fabrics.

From Family '11

The blue diamonds is for E, red snowflakes for L, blue snowflakes for H, red diamonds is for O, and the green is for I and anything extra. 16 yards total.

They are actually getting skirts instead of dresses this year. I have circle skirts planned. O's is already done, and it is so cute!

More later.

Dentist fun

Tomorrow, one of my littles has to have some cavities filled. All the kids eat the same and brush the same, yet a couple of them seem cavity prone. ELH need orthodontia. O probably will too, and I'm waiting to see what happens with those fused teeth. J has absolutely gorgeous teeth. How? I do not know. My teeth were always good until multiple pregnancies or age or laziness or some combination of the three.

O is easier to sedate for these things than L. Charlie will stay home with the rest of the kids while I stay with O. Since she can't eat none of them will eat until she leaves. They'll live, but they'll whine a bit.

We're going to get back on track for school this week. I mean it. For sure this week.

Added:

She did well during the procedure. We wound up getting 2 silver teeth. At least she thinks they're cute. We will have to go back for the top ones. Ugh!

What I got done

A friend was asking me how I get everything done. ROTFL! Like that will ever happen. It did make me be conscientious of my activities for the evening. It's average, I guess. Some days I get a lot more done, and some days I get a lot less done.

3:30 I sewed a brunch of trim on a pair of L's pants so she could wear them to church.

4:30-ish Charlie took the big 4 kids out for dinner because I asked him to. They had to be back at church for Proclaim practice by 6:30

4:30 - 8 The younger 2 love our Tuesday nights together. Usually it's only from 6-8, but I was hoping to get some work done here. First we made dinner. A lovely combo of hot dogs and grits. They got the hot dogs, I got a warm bowl of grits. Dinner of champions all the way around. I spent some time looking at a catalog with I while O watched a little Dora and played with my fabric scraps. Then we painted our nails. Poor I, he always wants to color his fingers and toes, too. Then we all made a big batch (10 cups) of chocolate syrup. Then it was get-ready-for-bed time. We read a few books until the rest of the gang came home just after 8.

Somewhere in all of that I picked a bunch of junk off the floor. I found shoes so we would be on time for PE today.

Later I transferred the sauce to jars for the fridge. I went to bed early.

Actually, I didn't get much done. I was tired and winding down. I woke up feeling much better today. I'm going to go to bed earlier again.

Today

Tuesdays are usually a bit busy. O has PE at the church from 10-10:30 then H has PE from 1:25-2:10. I drop them off and hang around until the first class is over the go home to eat lunch and get back to church for the second class. Today, Melissa and Danielle wanted to meet us their for lunch and play time for the kids. I was there at 10 and didn't leave until 2:30. That's a very long day.