Cleaning House

We are working on laundry, putting clean clothes away, straitening up our bedroom, all while watching the Oscars.  We also had the Blue Gold dinner for Cub Scouts, where Jacob actually got on stage (with several other scouts) and did the ChaCha dance.  He hated every second of it, but he did it.  Proud of him for going up there for his table/team.

Fun With Grandmom and Grandfather

The kids have been enjoying time with Grandmom and Grandfather.

Redundant Busy Day

Not sure how many times I can say busy day, but it was a busy day again.  Kids to school, Jennifer and I to work,  Jacob and Joshua to swimming, Layne to Girl Scouts, Jacob to Cub Scouts, and then home to study.  Boy howdy, we should all need some IV fluids all the running around we do.

DONE!!

The Science Projects are done!  Major thanks to Judy for the help and the printing.  The results looked exceptional, very professional.  Jacob still had some paper work to complete.  I asked him what he was filling out.  I looked at the sheet and it was the same stuff on his presentation board.  I couldn't help myself, and asked why he had to fill out this paper when the same thing was on his board.  It just didn't and doesn't make sense.  There has been so much redundancy in this project.  I apologized for saying so, but told them I didn't think it made sense to fill out the sheet on top of having the presentation board.  Jacob finished filling out the sheet to complete the project, but man.  All they've done with this project is make them not want to learn.  They had a great time with the experiments, but they lost them after that (and the parents).

4th Grade Science Fair

Hate it!  I think I hate it even more than Jacob.  It doesn't help that it needs to be on the computer and we don't have a printer and it's due on Thursday.

Yippee!

Basketball Saturday

Layne made 3 goals!!!!!  It was awesome.  And I got them all on camera.   I will ask Matthew to post one of the videos.  It was so exciting and she is getting so much more confident.  (An addition, look how open Layne is for the shot, if you'll notice to the right of Layne on the screen is her team mate setting the pick, they executed it perfectly.)

Matthew is also having a great time being the coach.  He really makes a point of making sure everyone gets equal playing time.  He is complimentary and nice in his coaching.  He even took the time to tell one of the players on the other team today that she did a great job.

I love watching Layne play sports - whether it is soccer of basketball it sure is a lot of fun.  I think she would like softball, too.  At least that is what her mom liked to play :)

Mom and I went to Ikea.  Spent a little over 4 hours there.  Spent a little over $   (yeah, I don't think I am going to say the amount).   Got some great pictures for the furniture that we want to use for "built-ins" for the family room.  Picked up some necessary items (yeah, right - but you always find something useful).

Got a lot of baskets for the shelves in the foyer so that we can have the kids have their own basket for shoes and their own cubby for backpacks, school bags, etc.

Matthew and the kids worked hard on getting the linoleum up in the bathroom and Jacob had the job of getting all the staples up from the floor.  They pulled up more carpet in Layne's room.

I am hoping that we are able to pull up the carpet ourselves and save on that expense.  I am also hoping that we are able to get the re-painting done upstairs before getting the new carpet.  Just have to find the motivation.

Jacob got to go have a sleep over at Connor's house tonight.  This is with Connor's dad and this is the first time at dad's house.  It was about to kill him that he had to help out around the house before going to Connor's.  That boy would spend hours to avoid having to anything that didn't include reading, Nintendo, TV, or computer.

Layne is still trying to figure out how to have a sofa in her room.  I have insisted on a "No" for that request.

Still trying to find the right loft beds for the boys' room.  Thought I found them at Ikea, but they are tall and too wide.  I think they would have about 12" from the ceiling and about 24" apart in the air - yeah - need to keep looking.

Matthew planning on working tomorrow.  Will try and get Layne and Joshua and I to church in the morning.  Jacob should be back after church.  Mom is cooking dinner for all of us and the 3 kids will spend the night at their house as they don't have school on Monday.

It just stays busy.

Prayers and positive thoughts for our family in Louisville - we love you very much!

Just Busy

We're all very tired, still out of sorts with the house half torn apart and the other half an unmitigated mess.  We missed yesterday's post, but getting today's in.  I was able to get all of the towels and rugs washed and dried that we used to try and clean up the flood of 2011, that's a plus.  Now we've got to get back to taking care of our normal laundry, oh the joy.

We also need to get some pricing for carpet, that's one you just can't do online, gonna actually have to go to the store and talk to someone.  Well, that's gonna be it for tonight, I'm tired and not much going on, which I will gladly take given the long week.

I did go back and fill in the post from last weekend on the carrier so go check it out.