Sometimes life is just life...

I rarely have a week like this... not a single appointment all week! Not one!

We planned to wrap up all our school work, our spring cleaning and our yard work.  Oh, and work on some behaviors, some therapies for Nesiah and relax...


On Monday I found out that my friend's son was in the hospital with a major brain tumor. Mr. and Mrs. S were some of my closest friends during our journey through cancer. We had lost contact in the last year or so... So I was absolutely shocked to see the updates on facebook. 

Sadly it was just as shocking for them! Apparently they took their oldest son, age 10 to the hospital on Sunday for headaches and by Monday he was having major surgery on a softball sized brain tumor!! What an awful life changing reality! You can follow his story on at caringbridge.org/damiensmucker and please pray for them!!! God will grant them strength and grace for this journey!

So life goes on for the rest of us, even tho our hearts ache and our thoughts are constantly with them!

So back to our life, I did not get much done on Monday, some cleaning here and there. Lots of schoolwork was done. I promised the kids chinese if they finished off math and grammar by Friday night. A goal that would require determination and dedication from all of them, but was very attainable!


Lee of course was up to the challenge and finished all his 4th grade work by Tuesday evening! He worked hard all day!

The kids have also been playing in the pool... not for long periods of time, just long enough to freeze!

We got fabric for new curtains for our basement, cleaned out the bathroom (which we had turned into a coat closet over the winter) and readied the outside for pool parties and such this summer! 

We have the most perfect set up,our  basement is actually like a studio apartment with a bathroom, the side  door goes out to the pool area. The little garden shed out back holds all our pool supplies! 

I also worked on our homeschool portfolios. Sigh. I STRONGLY dislike those! I need to fix my printer (google has taken me down many a bunny trail, and several hours of working have not repaired it!) so that I can print out all my paperwork for portfolios! I scheduled physicals and dentals for all the big kids. Plus specialist appointments as needed. (the next 3 weeks are full of medical and school (Nesiah) appointments)

Yesterday I enjoyed a good book on the kindle, tucking headphones into my ears to tune out the world... little ones slept, boys hung out in the club house they are building and the girls "worked" on school work. At the end of the day, feeling terribly lazy and still weighed down heavily by my friend's situation, I went outside, worked up my flower beds, hoed my garden and stained my picnic table, while the kids played with neighbor boys! 

Today we did some grocery shopping, making stops at all the different local places I like to shop, because they carry the cheapest items! lol

We got home and started school. Two kiddoes were NOT impressed and gave me quite the run for the money! Why oh why do I have to teach long division?!

 David worked very hard at finishing up his school work. He is done with grammar but math will take some good hard work, as we had him redo 3rd grade at the beginning of the year! 

I had planned to take some summer dresses to get altered and my fabric to make some simple curtains..But by the time I quit (read: quit not finished) school, I was too tired!  

Dinner was a delicious treat from my favorite local store. Corn on the cob, baby new potatoes, baked beans, and peaches! I am soooo ready for summer! 

We have revamped our schedule for summer. It has opened the door for some changes and it allows me to get a walk (on the treadmill) and a half an hr of "worship" time in while the kids clean up from breakfast! It also allows more time for me to work with Nesiah. The kids already noticed in a couple days time that she is happier! 

Next on my agenda is a load of wood chips for my butterfly bushes and a sand for the final touches on the pool. Hopefully that will happen on Friday! Then officially everything will be caught up! If the kids school work is done, summer school started, new routines settled, pool set up, garage and barn cleaned out, house spring cleaned,  I can relax and enjoy summer, even if I have two doing summer school! I hope by the time the appointments are all taken care of, the trip out of town that we have planned and homeschool evals done, it will be warm enough to spend leisurely days at the pool hanging with my kiddoes!