3 blind mice

3 Blind Mice
3 Blind Mice
See how they run
See how they run
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! Not in my garage. Any suggestions on how to get rid of these very gross things in my garage. My kids think it is the coolest thing ever. While I am trying not to panic and just put my house up for sale, or burn it down. Neither of these two options seem like good choices to my husband so I am left asking if any of you have experience with these little things.

First Grade

Home school mom, this is a word that I would of never used to describe myself. There are many things I am, but I never thought home school mom was one of them. There are many reasons why I never thought I was cut out for such a HUGE job. Now that we have a few weeks behind us I am finding the reasons that I didn't think I could do it simply came down to my own insecurities.
We are loving it!!!!!!!!! I love getting up in the morning dare I say around 8:30 and starting our day on our own schedule. It has been so neat for the four of us to grow even closer during this change. On Ryan's days off we aren't rushing around to get to school, we can just use the day for our family.
The school work itself has been great. Morgan loves to learn, so it makes it really easy.
I feel so blessed to have this opportunity to teach her for this year. Thank you Lord for speaking to me so clearly.

Birthday Boy

My big boy is three now. He has told us that he had the best birthday ever!!!!!!!!!!! All he wanted this year was tools, tools, and more tools. That was what he got. In the top pictures he is with Morgan posing by his new table bench with tools in hand. Happy Birthday my big guy.

SCHOOL, SCHOOL, SCHOOL

Some of you know my craziness in the last year as what to do for school this year. For a few months I knew for sure we were going to home school, then I got pregnant. The idea of being pregnant, dealing with a crazy three year old and focusing on Morgan was WAY to overwhelming. These feelings led me to decide to send Morgan to our local school. I never felt peace about this decision, but felt that I just couldn't handle the idea of teaching at this time in my life. After we got back from vacation we went to the school to register her and as we took a tour of the school I just got the overwhelming feeling that this wasn't right. There are very few times in my life where I really feel God speaking to me, but this was one of them. I came home and told Ryan and he said well lets pray about it and decide in the next week what we are going to do. God kept me up most of the night with school very heavy on my heart. I really feel as though keeping her at home for this year is the way to go. I am only committing to one year at a time. Once I made the decision an overwhelming peace came over me and I knew that this was the right decision.
Here's to two days down and many more to go!!!!!!!!!!!