This past weekend
we spent at the CHN Family Expo in Ontario. That wore us out. Ok, it
wore me out! So today I was pretty positive when I got up that we
would be taking the day off from any formal “lessons”. We had
donuts and milk for first breakfast and washed down an hour later
with pizza left over from Saturday night. I was determined to work in
the back yard this morning before it got hot, so I pulled weeds in my
so-called garden (it only has a couple strawberry plants and a
scraggly cucumber plant). I cleaned up my containers and talked to
Dan about moving them somewhere else and then moving our 100 year old
grape vines to that sunny spot. Our neighbor who bought the house
next door built up his new house so much that the place they were in
no longer gets enough sun for the poor vines and I would hate to lose
such an heirloom as these plants. Dan looked at me like I had spiders
in my nose, but I know he understands the value of the plants and
will attempt to help me with the project.
The next project I
started was to clean out a cubby between my back door and my MIL’s.
This spot gets nasty because the dryer vent is there and all the
bikes and other toys accumulate there because it is under the eaves.
I cleaned it all out and threw away a bunch of toys, washed what was
left and reorganized a bit. It looks ok. Don’t you hate it when you
clean up and sweat and work and it doesn’t look much better than
before? At least the whole thing isn’t covered with dryer lint
anymore!
You are now
probably wondering what my kids were doing. Well, Nikki was in her
room working on her guitar and reading. She is reading 1984 and
telling me all about it. I get to read it next and I wish she would
hurry up! Jake and Tom were in the pool most of the time. We just
have a little blow up pool about 10 feet across and 2 feet deep. It
was the best $40 I have spent this summer. They will be in that thing
for hours, day after day.
Now it is lunch
time, more pizza. I told you, I’m not in the mood to be super Mom
today!
We read some of a
new book about George Washington called “The Story of Mount Vernon”
by Natalie Miller. We bought it at the Expo on Sunday for a dollar.
Tom looked up where Maryland and the Potomac River was on the map. We
need to get a new one! Jake listened while he was playing with the
roller coaster track. The boys and I put together the Time Machine
from National Geographic that my aunt bought them. That was fun. We
put different things in the tubes to see if they would work for the
battery. Tom put together the Ph levels he was checking at the
Huntington Gardens Rain Forest Conservatory a couple of weeks ago and
the Ph levels of the liquids we were using for the batteries today.
The higher the number, the lower the acid level. It was neat. We
checked the Ph of our spit.
I am reading
another book that I got at the Expo called “Whatever Happened to
Penny Candy?” by Richard J Maybury. If you ever want a great
explanation of economics, check this out. I love it! I have almost
finished it and I feel smarter. I can’t wait to read others in the
series.
Tom is building
Lego structures. Jake and Nikki are playing Battlefront on the Xbox.
And I’m writing this. Don’t you wish I’d go on forever? It’s
4:30. I’m going to wait a bit before I post this. I might have more
to tell. Tom and I are making a dinner that he thought of yesterday
while we were at the grocery store. It was so cute because he saw a
can of sweet and sour sauce and he wanted to make the recipe on the
can. I said sure and we went around getting all the ingredients.
Finally, I said, “Let’s get Hawaiian bread!” And he said “Mom,
are you sure we can afford all of this?” Too funny, he wouldn’t
ask that if we were buying some toy he “needed”. That led to a
great discussion about why I say I won’t buy something because it
is too expensive. It isn’t that we can’t afford it, it is that it
isn’t a good buy for us.
Oh! And I finished
Nikki’s laundry and mine.
Dinner is over! Tom
helped me make the dinner he planned. He cut up the carrots, peppers,
and experienced the cutting of an onion. That made me laugh because I
always tell him that the onions make me cry and he never understood.
Now he does. He made the rice too. I told him that you put one cup of
rice with two cups of water, but we need to double it. He says right
away, “So two cups of rice and four cups of water?” We had dinner
and it was great. Jake helped me with the dishes.
After dinner, Jake
wanted to do a show with his Lego things and a flashlight. He had
been “experimenting” with a flashlight, paper, and many of his
toys on and off all afternoon. So now he has this show. He has Nikki
be the light and Tom helped him with the characters. It was so funny!
Grandma came in to watch.
Now they are out in
the back yard. They wanted to wrestle some before it gets dark. Nikki
is upstairs trying to finish 1984 before school starts again in a
couple weeks. It is sad that she has to put away books that she wants
to read during the school year. L
That is it for
today. I’m going to try to get these guys to bed early. I’m
reading a great book called “A Wrinkle in Time” that I also got
at the Expo. I think that was the best part, buying all those used
books. I love books! AND now Dan is reading "What Ever
Happened to Penny Candy?"
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