Mama On The Move

Why do I have so many days with very little to do and then have a day with eight different places I have be? Here is my list of activities for today: 8:30 Drop Ben's Eagle Scout packet off in Honolulu 10:00 Drop Ben off at bus stop in Mililani - finals today! 10:30 Orthodontist for Emily 11:30 Lunch at DFAC with Kerry and girls 2:30 Jumprope party for Katie - have to make brownies to take 3:00 Drive to White Plains Beach to pick up key 4:30 Drop Emily off at church - she's babysitting for the women's Bible study 5:30 Pick friends up at the airport in Honolulu, and take them to their cabin in White Plains I've organized everything out into time increments for the day, including having someone else drop Katie off after her party because I just can't be there.  I also cancelled play practice for the day which would have been 1230-2:30 but I just couldn't do it.  If anything else gets dropped today, it will be lunch. So of course, Katie cho...

Luckily we don't sweat the small stuff..... Our first reaction was to take pictures and put a plastic bag over the hole since it is raining. Our second reaction was to wake the kids so they could see it before we had to move the branch.

Found a nice article on homeschooling here .

This is oh so cool.  Check out the size of everything in the universe.  Be sure to slide the scale both ways! http://htwins.net/scale2/scale2.swf?bordercolor=white

1. Plan Ben's graduation party A. Invitations B. Food C. Decorations D. Music 2. Ben's Eagle Scout Project 3. End of year testing for the kids 4. Play practice (I'm directing) 5. Move A. Set up dates with movers and airlines, pet sitters or kennel, hotel reservations B. Look at houses in VA (ask about rental restrictions on 160 pound dog) C. Find homeschooling groups - research piano teachers, guitar teachers, tennis teachers, art classes, Biology class, jumprope teams D. Start getting rid of stuff E. Make lists of what to pack F. Call airlines about shipping dogs (ask about flight restrictions on 160 pound dog), make vet appointments for health checks before flying G. Make appointment to ship vehicle 6. Ben and Emily going on youth group camping trip 7. Homeschool prom coming up 8. Judging for speech competition 9. Marriage seminar at church 10. Women's seminar at church 11. Military formal ball - make sure dress and uniform are...

Emily and I love organization stores. We love going through the aisles looking at all the cool boxes, binders and hangars. We love buying these things and bringing them home. We love watching them gather dust as we never use them. But mostly we love to just look at the stuff in the stores. Emily says we are geeky like that. Today we were checking out a new store. Emily, Katie and I were happily going along remarking on the neat-o items. We found some nifty baskets, some cool magnetic calendars, and pig that shot light out of its nostrils when you pushed a button on its back. COOL! As I pointed out a neat picture hanging thingy to Emily, she was giving me that look . That look that says this is the most boring thing we've ever done and how could I drag her to this stupid store? I was completely baffled. We had been having a good time until just a minute before but now it looked as if I had done something mortifying and she was humiliated to be in my presence. "What...