I was teaching Monday morning when suddenly it hurt to turn my head to the left.  Within minutes I was in so much pain that I went right to the chiropractor to get adjusted.  I went home to lay in bed as sitting or standing was too painful to hold my head up!  Needless to say beyond math we did no other school last week.  We are doubling up lessons some days in math to finish in early July as usual.  Can’t really explain why math is always so behind but it is again this year.  Since our program is spiral it is easy to double up lessons since often 3 or more sections are exactly the same skills as the previous lesson.  I wish there were some chart for me to only teach the newest skills and have a weekly review come springtime as it would speed up our lessons.  However, there is not that I know of, and so we are pushing through to finished before the next year starts, lol.

But something very exciting did happen last week:  Our next year’s books arrived!  The poor Fed-ex guy was scared out of his mind when Daddy and the kids went running full force at him screaming, “Books! Books!”.  We spent an hour looking over everything and are really gung ho to get moving in World History so we can start American History soon.  I need more bookcases to hold the books.  After entering them into the computer library software it was over a hundred books we had added and that did not include anything consumable like math or history workbooks.   So we keep plodding on so we can get going on the next thing.  World History has been fun, but it’s been 2 years worth and we are ready for something new.  I can say we are in the late 1700′s, so we don’t have far kids.

Since my neck bothered me all week we did very little except play outside.  Well the kids played outside and I laid down a few days until I could sit in the chair for a bit.  I am not completely better but I am not complaining compared to last Monday.  They enjoyed the nice weather this week.  Both kids learned how to ride a Rip-stick.  I can’t explain it.  Just look it up on Google or Amazon.  It’s hard to ride.  They both got it in a few days.  Always impressive they are

We also finished planting our garden this weekend.  I will take photos tomorrow I promise!  You can tell we are new gardeners since only one of three plots for carrots & radishes are growing.  We nixed the idea of letting the peas grow up tomato stakes and handmade some that I already know are too short.  Only half the potatos are growing…do we cover up only half the box?  So many questions and honestly, there are no answers.    We also took the time to plant a shade garden.  We have a patch of backyard that sees very little sunlight and it always moist year round(in otherwords, squishy ground) so we dug up grass, put in dirt, and planted Hostas, Ferns, and Trillium and Jack in the Pulpit.  We hope it will grow and enhance our backyard.  If we ever find the time (and money) to put in a patio it will be a nice sitting area.

Today after church I was able to clean the entire house with very little pain.  Then I joined the family outside to play.  We have 5 families outside just hanging out, playing games, talking.  We hope to plan a cook out together very soon.  Other than the gnats the weather was nice and the kids fell asleep instantly!  Yay for summer weather.

Our week isn’t too crazy but will be steady.  We have a full school week planned…including Art!  They have gymnastics and music classes this week.  Our P.E. group is also doing soccer and somehow I ended up in charge of this event.  So I am to teach the kids the basics and get them playing each other.  Oh goodness!

Have a Blessed Week!

You would think it spring here the way I have been cleaning and purging the house this week.  I was shocked by how much dust was on the baseboard in our bedroom.  So once I started cleaning it the entire bedroom had to be moved so I could get to all the baseboards.   Next I went through my craft items.  I am very focused on my scrapbooking for the time being.  While I love card making I know I will not be doing it anytime soon.  So I packed up most of my stuff and listed it on Ebay.  I kept some things for the kids and I to use for our craft times, but the majority of it is leaving this house!  At this point I like how it’s shaping up.

I need to rework the school room shelves but nothing will be thrown out.  In fact, today we got a new shipment of Usborne books and the kids read for HOURS.  I love Usborne books.  Once you become a consultant you can order for life!  I always have another list going for the next order in the fall.  The garage was cleaned up some this weekend but nothing dumped out yet.  I am waiting on the group to leave the donation bag and I have some major stuff going out!

I also just got some new kitchen gadgets and so it means something has to go to make room.  I have some things to donate and some to give to family.  Funny thing is…I gave this stuff away before.

So it’s not yet spring but what are you purging?