November in review

OK, so the biggest homeschooling myth I can bust now...

"Homeschoolers never leave their house and the kids don't know what the outside world is." HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA We're NEVER home!!  The boys can do their math in the car, at the Drs office, at Kokosing....  Never leave their house...

November as a whole was not much better than October :(  Ugh.  Between drs appointments, the boys tonsil removal and Thanksgiving we only had about 90 hours this month :(  Oh well.  I've had a couple people tell me that some people take all of December off and now I know why!!!  It's just so stinkin' busy!!  But, I already have my lesson plans wrote out through the 9th, and it would take too much effort to erase, so we're going to keep on keeping on.  I think after that we'll just do reading and math.  We're not going to get all the science and history I have written to do done anyways so we can use that time to catch up so we can start fresh in January. 

We didn't have a whole lot of extracurriculars this month, which was SO NICE!!!!  Scouts was about it and we had a community dinner we volunteered at and the Mt Vernon Christmas parade.

Books we read this month were Walking the World's Rim, Pedro's Journal and Ok-Nas-Toe, all with the Sonlight curriculum we started this month.  The boys really enjoyed these books and I know more about Indians in the one I read than I ever knew!!

Hours for the month- 95, so Wyatt's at 425 and Austin's at 411.  Almost half way to to the total hours we need at the end of November!!  This is pretty easy peesy!!!

This is what I made to give to the people who bought popcorn from us...  I love my scrapbook software!!

The boys' thankful trees :)

Happy Thanksgiving!!

OK, so I could have done the FB thankful thing, but I over post as it is and this way I don't have to totally be appropriate!!  LOL  So, here's my thankful list- in no particular order...
-Brian- because he's AMAZING and after 11 years I can say the more I get to know him the more I love him and the more he knows me he still hasn't left...
- Austin- because 1 Brian wasn't enough in my life wasn't enough I needed to create a mini one...
- Wyatt- because God has a sense of humor I created a mini me...
- My family- because there has to be a reason Tums were made
- Brian's family- because there had to be a reason Prozac was made
- My church family- God's way of apologizing for all the above...
- My house- so we stay humble and don't think too highly of ourselves
- Being able to homeschool- because being judged and ridiculed is really a lot of fun
- My friends- because Lord knows if I only had Brian and the boys to talk to I'd walk in front of a semi
- God- because he loves me enough to give me all the above :)

"Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe..."
Hebrews 12:28

"Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful."
Colossians 3:15

HAVE A WONDERFUL THANKSGIVING!!!!!

Things are looking up!!

Yay!!  The boys are bouncing back!!  Wyatt is outside playing with our neighbor and Austin played in his sandbox for a while and is now sitting next to me eating Fritos and drinking milk :)  It was a long weekend though.  Austin wasn't eating much and if you know Austin you know that isn't good (he's a walking stick figure...) and Wyatt isn't sleeping well and his ears have been hurting alot (which is normal...) but I think the main problem was we were all not feeling well because we wern't doing anything!!  So I think everybody's feeling better now that we're active again.  We started school back up today and the boys were A-OK with everything!!  OH!!  We started our new history today, Sonlight.  It was great!!  The boys enjoyed all the reading much more than the short lessons of Mystery of History.  Also, babysitting is going well...  I was a little nervous that it would be too much distraction, but the boys do very well doing work alone in their rooms!!
OK, that's all I got for now...

Surgery Day!

Welp, we did it.  We made it through.  I am aware that tonsillectomy's are pretty routine, but those were still my babies!!  Ugh.  We got to the Ohio Surgery Center a little early this morning because traffic was lighter than expected and were happy to sit with our good friend Skyler for a few minutes before his daughter went back for a procedure.  The boys were still very OK at this point.  Then they called us back and they put their gowns on and we watched cartoons, and the boys trash talked to each other "I'm going to eat more popsicles than you" "You're going to cry more than me" "My tonsils are going to be bigger than yours"...  Good grief...  They sprayed scents in their face masks and Austin LOVED the watermelon in his (Wyatt has strawberry).  He held it up to his face for the hour he waited!!  LOL  It was making us laugh!  Wyatt was going first so they brought him his 'loopy' medicine and we were so bummed!!  He didn't act funny or loopy at all :(  So disappointing :(  So they came to get him and wheeled him back and he was nervous but didn't cry which surprised me.  They told me afterwards that he started crying before they put him to sleep (But more about Wyatt in a minute...).  So then they came and gave Austin his 'loopy' medicine and it was slightly more entertaining- but not much.  Honestly that was the part we were looking towards the most!!  What a let down!!  He did act a little funny but mostly it just relaxed him.  Before Austin went back Dr Hart came in to let me know that Wyatt had done well, that when she went to do his turbinate reduction he was bleeding so much she ended up doing his septoplasty too (all to say she cauterized his nasal passages so he can breathe easier and then cauterized the blood vessels in the middle of his nose to stop nose bleeds).  She took his tonsils out but his adenoids had already shrunk (?) so she didn't have to mess with those.  So, they came and got Austin, who said "see you later" and Brian and I went to wait in the waiting room.  I think it was 10 minutes and they called us to the consultation room where Dr Hart came to tell us that Austin's surgery went good as well.  His adenoids had shrunk as well so she only had to remove his tonsils, which were HUGE she said.  I guess that's good...  While we were there a nurse came to tell Wyatt needed us immediately.  So we go back to Wyatt who is screaming at the nurses to "leave me alone, let me sleep, stop touching me!!!!!"  He was hitting them and screaming at them, it was terrible.  He wasn't fully awake, his eyes weren't open, he was just raging!!  Ugh!!  He wanted me to hold him with my cheek touching his cheek and I wasn't allowed to move, and then he finally went back to deep sleep.  Around then is when we started hearing Austin yelling and I looked at Brian and said "you've got to be kidding, both of them are going to be psycho?"  He only yelled a couple times though, they wheeled him in with us and stayed awake and drank water and chewed ice and did great!!  After 30 more minutes the nurse came and walked Austin who walked like a champ and then we moved to Wyatt.  Again, he was screaming and hitting and would not open his eyes!!  So the nurse still wanted to walk him, so we walked him and he fought us and still did not open his eyes- laid down went right back to sleep.  A half hour after that we dressed him against his will, put him in the van and he slept the whole way home!!  Finally woke up when we got off 71 and wanted a milk shake and has been fine since :)  They are both very sore (obviously) and they are definitely not the troopers some kids are, but we're still proud of them :D

Wyatt after he got his 'non loopy' medicine :)

Austin feeling very relaxed...

Wyatt REFUSING to wake up...  He loved his little bear he got :)

Austin mad cause I was blocking the TV :)