Whirlwind...

Life has been a whirlwind lately. From birthday parties to starting back to school. For those of you who don't know, we homeschool. And we started back last week. This year I am starting a devotional/bible time into our lessons. I am so excited about it! The kids just soak it up and beg for more. Which make me a happy mama. 

{This is a photo from last year}

Also this week we went out and got Library cards... finally! I have been wanting to do this for some time, but was intimidated to take all 3 kids by myself. I wanted to make sure they would behave before we went.  And today they were perfect angels, loving every minute of the library! We came home with a stack of books.

Lastly my poor little Rhett has staff. Not quite sure how he ended up with that, but it has given me a scare. We came home Friday night from fishing and hanging with family when Rhett showed me a pea sized sort of blistery looking spot under his arm near his armpit. I really didn't think too much about and thought I would check it in the morning. Morning came and he still said it bothered him and so that Saturday night I thought I would put a little ointment on it and a bandage. My husband took the bandage off Sunday morning and I was shocked. It had doubled in size. Now quarter sized and really red. When we got him to the doctor she said we would aggressively treat it with antibiotics and a topical cream too.

My sweet baby! I hope it passes quickly. 

Funny how I get as a mommy. I just want to wash all of their pains away. 

I know this isn't a crisp, clean photo, but I love his laugh and smile! 

They make my day!

Kids School Project...

Some of you may know that we home school our children. Today I thought I would share one of the ways we decided to keep track of our sight words. Not to mention make them look a little more fun.

For this project I just used things I already had around the house.

Left over scrapbook paper

white copy paper

tape

hole punch 

ribbon

First I cut the scrapbook paper into 4x4 squares...

 Because I was out of white card stock, I used white copy paper and printed out a list of the sight words we have been going over so far. I then cut them to sit inside the scrapbook paper leaving some room for the pretty paper to show around the white copy paper.

Next I attached the white paper with double sided tape to the scrapbook paper.

 Punched a hole in the corner of each card.

 Strung some ribbon and we were finished. Simple and dresses it up a bit to make it fun!

Hope it might help you too! 

Happy Weekend!

An Awesome Responsiblilty...

When I had my first baby I knew I was destined for some big things. I had this feeling deep down in my gut. I knew I was not going to be sending him (or any of my kiddos) off to kindergarten, but instead to teach them at home. It is amazing to me every day all the questions that Rhett asks me and how very much he is learning just by that. Today we were talking about baking brownies and he asked if we could cut them into triangles instead of squares. There we go learning our shapes. Sometimes I let this awesome responsibility overwhelm me. How blessed am I? To get to be there to see each one of them learn to read, write their name and countless other things. I am truly excited about this journey we are embarking on together. As the twins are growing they too are eager to learn. Little sponges they are!

I want to send out a little love to all my teacher friends and my homeschooling friends. Thanks for the support and encouragement! Love you guys!