I haven't posted in awhile.
It's been a very busy week. Tim has been home again this week and you would think that I would be getting more done! We have had some nice mornings but we still haven't been able to watch the movie that I got three days ago! Monday I got back to Christian's quilt and have been working on it in bits and pieces when I have time. I had to get a bunch of stuff done around the house after the weekend. We ended up taking a bike ride over in a nearby development and the Hoppels joined us. It was beautiful weather! Then we hung around and visited for awhile. It was really nice to have down-time with friends! The Hoppel girls are going to be making some really pretty crafts for a local craft fair and Paula showed me what they are going to do. The scarves are amazing! I'm planning to buy some of them and give them as gifts.
Tuesday was spent running around. John got two great games as birthday presents and we have been playing them pretty much whenever we have spare time.
He got UNO from aunt Deena, and he loves it! We all love it! He also got a gift card to Barnes and Noble and got two books that he has been saving for. He was extremely happy about that!
He another got a game from the Hoppels called "BananaGrams" that is a lot of fun. It's kind of like Scrabble without a board. We've been enjoying that too!
I had Encounter on Tuesday night so I didn't quilt, but got right back to it yesterday.
So yesterday I had an appt with a homeschooling mom who would like to get a bit more order in her home before she starts the school year. We talked about what she sees as the biggest obstacles and I showed her how to get started on a filing system. She is going to spend this week trying to get rid of things that they don't need, and then next week we will get going on the schoolroom. She is such a nice person, I am hoping to help her enjoy schooling a lot more this year. The family is in the military and I know it must be so hard to get things in order and keep them that way when you are moving all the time!
After I left her house I had to go BACK to the Social Security office to try to get my name changes on the card, one more time! I think they got it right this time. I want to apply for my business license and I have to be sure those ducks are in a row!
Last night I got back to the quilt and got it together and started quilting. I am hoping to be finished today. I also started in on MY schoolroom again. I need to get my files purged and put the household stuff into a couple of drawers so that I can get the other cabinet set up just for school stuff! I shredded three bags full of documents and I'll be doing more today!
It has to be done though. I just don't have room in those files for anything that we don't absolutely need! I love that so many companies and businesses are using paperless systems now. Our bank doesn't send us the tedious canceled checks anymore. They keep them and if I need one, I can just call or go online and they'll send it to me! I am paying most of my bills online and so I don't have as many papers to hang onto.
I am looking forward to school much more now because I feel like I am going to be ready! August is going to be my prep month. I have almost all my materials together now. I just have to read, read, read all the teacher's guides, watch my teacher's videos and make some visual aids for the classroom. I am going to put a much bigger cork board up on the wall and try to get a template made for a timeline. I'd like John and Brendan to be able to make the timeline on the computer because then they can go online and find neat pictures of whatever they are studying and import them into it, use cool fonts and colors for the text, print it and hang it! They'll enjoy it more that way.
So I guess I'd better go get started on all this stuff!
I will post a picture of the quilt later.
