Today is my first day of summer! We finished school on Friday and we are now free to be somewhat lazy. Well....my son is. I still have to put his review book together for review this Friday. After Friday I am free to sleep in until at least 7:30! Of course I still have to cook, clean, wash clothes, and take care of the pets. I might just need a break after my summer break!
Today (hopefully) is our last day of homeschool. We will finish the 2nd grade and summer will begin. I still have the review book to put together, but it will only take a few days to type everything up.
I haven't decided what we are going to do this summer. We don't have the money to put our son in a summer camp. I will just have to plan some fun activities to keep us busy.
Sorry I haven't been around much this week, I have been busy busy with school and the baby.
Happy June everyone! I thought a great way to kick off the month would be to post a typical day around my house. So.....enjoy the first day of June!
5:45 AWAKE! Feed dogs, cat, and clean litter box. Wake husband for work. Make him breakfast and pack his lunch.
6:00 Unload dishwasher.....load dishwasher (I take Sundays off of any kitchen chores, so Monday there are lots of dishes to do.) Make sure husband takes his morning meds, and has his afternoon meds with him.
6:10 Chase dog outside to keep him from eating the frogs in our garden. (The last time he got one he threw up in the house. I try to avoid that from happening!)
6:20 Start a load of dark clothes in the washer.
6:30 Update Netflix Queue to make sure there will be movies in the mail this week. Wipe off white board and write June dates on it. Clean husbands desk.
7:00 My son is up and asking for breakfast! Time to cut up some fruit for a nice fruit salad with some yogurt.
7:15 Vacuum master bedroom, and ceiling fan. Dust TV and shelf. Change sheets and blanket.
7:35 Start a load of towels in the wash. Eat breakfast and catch up on my favorite blogs.
8:00 Fold and hang dark clothes that just finished drying. Feed sour dough starter and place in fridge.
8:15 Take out recycle and trash.
8:20 Make beds, and get crib ready for God daughter. ( to save space, I put all of her things in the crib when she is not here. )
8:30 Straighten kitchen
8:40 Go next door and get God daughter.
8:50 Put towels in washer
8:55 Get sons school books ready for teaching
9:00 Start school with son. Start with Reading book. Fed baby, rocked her to sleep.
9:30 changed a VERY smelly diaper and took it straight outside to the trash can.
9:35 Rocked baby back to sleep while helping son with reading questions.
9:45 Folded towels from the dryer. Put them away in the closet.
9:50 Had a snack ( a whole wheat apple muffin I baked Sunday before church). All this work is making me hungry!
10:00 Mix a bottle up so it will be ready when the baby wakes up.
10:05 Continue to help son with reading. We are reading 4 short stories in his book today.
10:10 Started a load of sheets and blankets in the wash.
10:15 Spoke to father in law on the phone
10:30 Baby crying...have to change her diaper and warm a bottle
10:40 Feed baby and rock her.
11:00 Put sheets in the dryer.
11:10 Put baby in Snuggli and walked around the house with her. We walked in the backyard, and went to check the mail.
11:30 Catch my son goofing off, so I added an extra page to his school work.
11:45 Rock baby back to sleep
11:55 Make lunch for my son and I ( a fresh hand cut salad for me, and a PB&J sandwich for my son)
12:15 Baby crying, rock her to sleep again - Eat lunch while she is asleep in my lap.
12:45 Update this page!
1:00 Get son started on Language Arts book.
1:10 Baby hungry....feed her again and rock her to sleep. Continue to help son with Language Arts lessons.
1:50 Baby finally sound asleep. Give my son a break from his lessons and try to fix the sound on computer.
2:00 No luck on the sound to the computer! Make another bottle for later.
2:05 Unload second set of dishes from dishwasher.
2:15 Rocked baby and sat her in bouncer so she can watch a movie with son (while I take a 5 minute break!!)
2:25 Rinse off dishes in the sink
2:30 Baby crying again.....warm up bottle and feed her.
2:50 Baby is finally asleep again! Fold sheets in dryer.
3:10 Baby up.....I am having a long day!
3:20 to 4:00 It all went by kinda of fast, but this is what I think happened! Husband comes home, phone rings, baby is crying, husband tries to talk to me while baby is crying, try to rock baby, babies mommy comes home and needs to use computer, baby finally falls asleep in my arms!
4:20 Baby wakes up and I take her home.
4:30 Can I go to bed now? NO! I need to call and see if my husbands prescription has been filled at Target. Keep in mind that I have not had any caffeine today. I am running on empty and could fall asleep at any moment! Oh...I also sat down to update this post.
4:50 Start dinner - whole wheat spaghetti with garlic and herb sauce
5:15 Dinner served
5:35 Check emails
5:50 Clean up dinner dishes, load dishwasher, wipe down counters, put dirty kitchen towels in basket.
6:20 Talk to neighbor about scrubbies I sell on Etsy
6:40 Take a long hot well deserved shower
6:55 Make some decaf tea
7:00 Send son to take a shower, get husbands evening medicine ready for him in case I fall asleep.
7:05 Log into Library and renew books that are due this week
7:10 Pop some popcorn for desert
7:15 Update this post, then I am going to go lay down and watch a movie I got from Netflix today.
Goodnight everyone. I finally finished 'work' today! I put in a good 13 1/2 hours. And it all starts again tomorrow!
Saturday is my 1 day to sleep in, and I just can't get my body to do it! I am up at 5:45 every morning with my husband to help him get ready for work. And Sundays I have church, so I'm up by about 6:30 to prepare to teach Sunday School. So....Saturdays....the day I love getting to....a day with no school, and no lunch to make before the sun comes up. And for some reason my body says ' nope, your not sleeping in!'.
So, I have been online reading my favorite blogs, and washing laundry.
I will then go to the grocery store to buy next weeks food.
I'm not sure what I will do after that, but I have a whole loooong day to do it!
Have a great weekend everyone!
Ok...so I didn't get a lot of homeschooling done yesterday. I was busy planning our summer budget. Why? Well, because my husband doesn't have a job for the summer yet!
Here is the story.......
When my husband lost his job (that he was at for 4 years) he found a temporary job teaching that only lasts until school ends (the first week of June). After much discussion, we decided to cash out our 401K (that didn't have a whole lot anyway) from previous job and use it as a backup for summer. I do not recommend doing this! We only did it because we had no other choice. My husband has been actively looking for a job, but hasn't had much luck.
Our base budget is low enough that the 401K money will get us through the 3 months of summer. He can then go back to teaching on a temporary basis for the next school year if he hasn't found a job. We have also been entertaining the thought of me going back to work and my husband staying home and home schooling our son. I can work during the day, and he can teach at night. It's not the ideal situation, but the bills have to be paid.
So, yesterday I planned our base (live on the least amount of money) budget, and put it in writing. I also created a plan to sell stuff on Ebay again, and start making things to sell on Etsy.
So, that being said, I had to get it done so we had a real plan.
Today I feel like a weight has been lifted, and I can now focus on school!
We are finishing our last week of 2nd grade and I have mixed feelings! I am happy that we will finally get a break, but sad that my son is getting older and growing up. I know that time goes by fast. I get a little sad some times to think that in no time he will graduate and move on to college or trade school.
But, I am making the most of what I have now! I am trying to make this last week as fun as possible, while still motivating him to get his work done.
So...I will be busy busy this week. I will try to post at least 3 days this week!
My husband (who recently found a job teaching) has a 3 day weekend. We are all excited since we have not seen him much the last few weeks. The teacher before him was fired and he has had a lot of trouble with the students that were loyal to that teacher. He has had to do a lot of parent teacher conferences lately. This weekend will be a nice break for all of us. It has been raining here all week, so I am not sure what we will do over the next couple of days. It would be nice to go to the beach....but we are at the mercy of the weather.
Have a great weekend!
We are on day 3 of rain. It's normal for Florida, but I don't like it much. The dogs never want to go outside, and then they have 'accidents' in the house. I can't really blame them when it's an all out downpour with heavy winds.
So, what do we do when we can't go outside? My son and I have come up with several options.
1. play games on the computer
2. play card games....Go Fish and UNO are our favorites.
3. draw and color
4. read dinosaur books...his favorite!
5. watch online movies on Netflix
So, today I am homeschooling, doing chores, and hanging out inside with my son. I love my job!!
I have my God daughter today from 9 to 3. When I add chores, homeschool, and dinner, I will be ready for bed by about.....6pm! I love having her though! It is well worth being tired at the end of the day. I will have to try to get my chores done during her naps so I don't have lots to do when she leaves. Luckily my son is learning to do his school work independently. I only have to sit with him to explain the lessons and check them at the end.
I updated my blog side bar this weekend. I will add more when I get a chance.
Have a great day!
I know it has been a good 5 months since I have posted. I have had lots of good reasons. My husband is in Congestive Heart Failure again, I have been homeschooling the 2nd grade to my son, my neighbor has needed help throughout her pregnancy and after delivery, and my husband lost his job. So....life has not been boring!
I am back to blogging, and will post pictures of my God daughter soon. I will also update my saving money blog in the nest day or two.
I want to thank those that noticed I was gone. Thanks for your thoughts and prayers.
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