My brain's in dissaray...

   I keep looking from left to right in hopes that all the "paper's" will magiclly print, categorize and create a calander for me, but the only thing I see are paper's in dissaray, a tablet of paper in front of me with a lonely pencil setting on it in hopes that I may pick it up and use. I think my glass of tea and i-pod have gotten more attention from me since I first sat down. I am trying to clean out my webmail inbox and organizing live lessons, from one another in hopes that I can come up with a nice ptinted notebook- not sure if i can read my own chicken scratch. Since starting this blog I have gone upstair's to get socks, stopped to check on the caterpilar's and watch one eat...have you ever really observed one eating??? Pretty neat. My neighbor found some monarch caterpillar's and brought them home. The kids and I set up a nice little home with a screen top and fresh milkweed, twigs, all the things that nature provides in hopes that we will have the liberty of watching them change and become a beautiful butterfly. I am never going to get this accomplished!!!! My 7 year old came downstaris and said" mommy I can't sleep, do you have a cup of tea?" All along she was staring right at it (hence why i have the ipod) it's not working though. AHA I was now just distracted with a hairband that someone obviously flung and it landed on a picture frame in here...my brain is wondering do I dare go get it and put it away which means I will have to go ito the kitchen and I know the inside of my fridge needs cleaned with some clorox (kids spilling koolaid) and I may get distracted and clean that instead of my paperwork. *SIGH* oh well I suppose I am distracting myself even more...I will post when I get my paper's done. Thanks for all the idea's that's what led me to the desk to start but obviously I'm like a small child and everything is catching my attention or secretly I am trying to get out of doing the inevitable  =)

Our First Day of School

    I'm sure everyone is anxious to hear how our first day of school went and I had every intention to upload picture's and tell all, however I was just too tired to create a new post last night.



   When we first got up I admit I had butterfllies in my belly due to the " stress I was about to endure" but as the morning went on I soon realized it was nothing near how I expected our day to go. I admit thing's were a bit hectic but that's also to be expected on the first day but none how I expected it to be. Because the 2 younger ones' desks are right next to each other there was a little arguing but nothing I couldn't handle. I waited till my younger ones were done to start with my oldest (which I captured no pictures of) and we worked together on her work. After the day was done I came up with some idea's to help us out during the day. I had planned on implementing them today but as I said I was tired from getting up early and had no energy. I will have a better plan implemented after this evening. I have dinner in the crockpot so that will be less work for this evening.

    If anyone has any idea's please feel free to leave comments.


 Ultimately at the end of the day I was in great spirits because I felt we had conqured a "BIG" day.

School begins tomorrow

Tomorrow is the "Big Day" and i'm hoping to get the kids up at a normal time....I don't forsee that happening to well seeing as I hear footsepts upstairs as we speak and it is 12:49 a.m. here. I want them up by 9. Wish me luck!!!

A NOT school supply list

Well this is one thing I can cross off my back to school supplies....

It smells like school

The pencils are sharpened, books tucked neatly away in their "home" on the bookshelf, the printer is full with fresh crisp paper and the chairs are awaiting tiny hiney's to keep them warm. Physically I am prepared but mentally I'm beginning to feel the overwhelming sense of frigid fear of "can I really do this?" I feel as though I should appear on a commercial with an angel on one shoulder and a devil on the other arguing with myself as to whether this is what's in their best interest. In my heart I KNOW I CAN...but society says NO. I don't understand why how my children learn is any one's business other than mine. There is always someone somewhere out there with an unwanted opinion that they are happily willing to share at the wrong time and I grin and bare it when actually I just wanna scream "WHAT'S IT TO YOU?" Then the wonderful subject of Socialization gets brought up and I begin to squrim as if I'm going to jump out of my skin and start to explain that there are things for my children to do, meanwhile in the back of my mind I'm wondering why I have to explain myself to everyone. If they haven't realized I have already action to boycott my school system then perhaps I should hang a huge brightly colored sign on my porch stating that my school is not a "bully free zone" as others have done this past school year only to have had their signs snatched out of their yards and the family's felt the heat from the publicity of the matter. So I think I'll pass just to keep unwanted eggs from hitting my house at 3 a.m. and scaring my kids and making for one ANGRY mom. For tonight I will say my prayers, Talk to God and let him take control.


Thanks for hearing me vent
HUGS

We're ready!!!!

We're ready!!! Below you find an array of photo's of our "work area"

This is my oldest daughter's work area, however she will not be using the desk due to her knee's. She has Chondramalacia Patelle and has opted to sit at our coffee table so she can stretch out and keep her supplies in her desk. I color coordinated each of my childrens school supplies, she chose blue.

Here is my family room/school room now. I have 2 desk's side by side one fucsia and one red. The fuscia is for my 2nd grader Rheaunna and the red is for my 4th grader Ryley. I placed corkboards above their desks to hang papers or artwork.

our white board!

bookshelf

Ryley's corkboard's

Ryley's desk. He chose a red desk and chair to match and his supplies are red!

Rheaunna's corkboard's

Rheaunna's desk. Her favorite color is pink and thisis the closest we could come to it. it's "pink" to her she says.

Meet The King's

Well here it is less than 2 weeks away fron the first day first day of school and chaos has already errupted on this fine establishment I call "HOME" With all the disruptions we have had here within the last week or so, life here has come to a screeching halt between the broken elbow and chicken pox. I must say that the Good Lord has obviously given me patients to endure the challenges we are embracing now. I have so much i want to get done before September 1st and am hoping beyond all hopes I get everything done and have a down day before we begin our new journey into the 2010-2011 school year.