the foolish man built his house upon the sand.....

This months been a woozy doozy! I've been flat drunk for weeks......on summer loooooove baby.

Why do refeerences to alcohol just make me laugh....never having had a single sip my whole life i think I have a fascination with the weirdness of being drunk. I also have had the life long knack of acting drunk with no alcohol entering my system. Once 10:30 hits I'm as tipsy as if I was tossing back a tequila.......I guess I have had alcohol if you count Nyquil....or my dad's stash of "near beer" that has like .01 percent alcohol. That stuff is just NASTY! whoever invented that must have been a convert to the church because you have to have a serious hankering for some certain flavor to let that enter your body.

alcohol was not even what I was going to blog about.

I was on facebook and I saw a bunch of pictures of Newton...........Newton or Newtin as it's pronounced in these parts is where I went to school from K-12. One building. I never left that same building for any grade. It's not a private school just a small farm community that could support one small school. My class had about 35-40 people in it. By the time I graduated there were only about 7 male class members attending school at the building.

anyways the building is getting tore down this year. I believe soon I need to ask Nathan. I'm kinda sad about it...it just feels like a childhood home getting tore down. There are communities that seem to value their old buildings, renovate them, make them beautiful again......people do it with homes. In many older cities the old renovated schools are the center of the city and something they enjoy caring for. but oh well...I'm not going to chain myself to the front of the building while the wrecking ball is swinging down or become some terrorist and stalk the p.hill politicians.

so in dedicatory rememberance I would like my kids to see where I went to school. take a couple pictures. And say goodbye to where I spent 16,380 hours of my growing years. and maybe I'll write more about my memories someday. But I don't know where to start. And I can't do it now while I've got Eva in my lap napping and the large to do list of today ahead of us.......but maybe someday I will.

viruses and ect.

our computer has been virused by something. It's a big pain because it keeps opening up stuff I don't want opened..and shutting down,,,and the kids want to watch tv on it and they can't because it always has obnoxious pop ups.

and now Addie also has a virus but a real one that is making her feel horrible. Poor girl!

we have watched Enchanted every SINGLE DAY since the start of June. At first I thought it was cute and a little funny. Then I thought it was actually very good acting....NOW I stare at that movie as if it holds the secrets to the universe....when I hear the daily...."HOW DO I KNOOOOOW IF HE LOVES ME?" I ask myself that question. Then I get my answer...he will sing a song with words meant just for me...YES THATs HOW I WILL KNOW!!!!

It is a marvel that movie....and for some reason Addie and Eva are convinced the guy she ends up with is really her dad. I'm like..."Well they're in love right?" NO ITS HER DAD!!! Well.....then why doesn't she go off and marry the prince? BECAUSE SHE WANTS TO BE WITH HER DAD!
which is actually quite sweet that they think the whole movie is about her dad and her finding eachother..and a little confusing. I think I need to hide that dvd.

Addie had her last day of her first year of homeschooling.. IT wasn't really a whole year but she finished all of kindergarten in 4 months. My thoughts and feelings about it so far are these..... I'm still figuring out the balance of structure and non structure. Like I want to have a bit of a schedule so we're not just sitting in our pajamas watching t.v. all day and at the same time not so many activities that it's stressful and overwhelming.

I haven't totally embraced the "unschooling" mentality...even though I do agree with many of the ideas....I just feel like I'm falling somewhere between "unschooling" and a structured school day.
We are using Ohio virtual academy which gives us LOTS of lessons, ideas, and the whole structure...so I've kind of been spending times on the things that she is interested in and seeming to need right now, and spending less time on things I don't think matter as much...like who invented peanut butter.... and if you know that then hooray.

Once danny got chewed out by a kindergarten teacher in Dayton public schools because supposedly no one knows who invented peanut butter...he was like..."Hey I love peanut butter!" and she was like..."his name is GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER and he went to blah blah blah college and he invented blah blah balh"

I'm sure he was a wonderful man......I think he invented marshmellow cream too.... anyways......I feel like this is definately the right thing for us and it has been cool following through on what I was feeling inspired to do.....


I've been playing piano (chopin and brahms are making me happy right now) and we've been outside alot and spending time with family and danny's almost done with the cabinets and we are ready to have a looooooonnnnggg summer.

a quickie

a quickie post before my students get here...it's saturday. joy of joys.
anyways....

the cvs lady seriously has it OUT FOR ME!!

I frequent (love that word) the CVS on the corner about once a week because it's really close to my house so I'll get the random stuff I haven't bought there...like a pound of gummy worms or a gallon of milk or whatever.

The check out lady is this 60 ish gray bobbed lady who wouldn't smile even if someone was tickling her armpits I'm sure.

but she is out to get me...

One day I went to check out and she would not come to the counter even though the whole CVS was empty and she stood about 5 feet away from me organizing the grocery cart full of sale candy. So I stood there just staring at her for like 5 WHOLE minutes before she felt the need to come check me out and this was after I like....coughed and walked past her a couple of times.

I just thought maybe she didn't really see me. So the next time I went in...I did the same thing. I waited at the counter while she looked at me out of the corner of her eye while she finished like organizing the gum rack.

then I asked for stamps and she was like ..."Okay." So I bought my stuff and went out and looked for my stamps and she never even gave them to me.

So then I had to run back in and tell her she forgot my stamps and she totally squinted her eyes at me like I was telling a lie and asked to see my receipt.

Two days ago I walked into CVS. I give her the eyeball(not literally) as I buy 3 packs of gummies and I once again need stamps. (why don't I just start paying my bills online like every other person on the planet?) She rings me up. Then I swipe my card and I'm like..."Wow stamps have really gotten expensive." Because my bill was like $19. And she was like...Oooh Maybe. Then I looked at my receipt and it had a People Magazine on it for like 4 dollars. I ran back to the counter once again and I said.....I didn't buy a magazine! And there she was holding a people magazine and reading it!

That lady totally tried to make me buy her magazine. She didn't even look ashamed she was just like....Whoops. And then she had to re enter everything.

. But I kind of want to go back just to see what she's going to do next..hmmm.

I fell off my tuesday streak...

happy 2nd birthday lilia.....

I've fallen off the boat writing on my blog on tuesdays.
We had a good time celebratin' and I had a really funny picture of all the MEAT at this picnic that was enough to make your stomach turn. This was the picnic of all meat lovers picnics. Oh and here is a picture of Addie with our first salad of the year from our garden.
I still don't believe Nathan terry did the macarena on the inner tube. Hmmm...maybe next time i will be able to witness that feat.




Mark my words Lilia and Eva will be best friends for liFE! they are so cute together I can just see them being old women together rocking in rocking chairs.

the sky is so blue it looks purple almost.....what would that color be called?

Tuesday is my new update the blog day.

I feel like I just don't totally mesh with adulthood. It's like the two of us...me and being an adult are awkward together and we just have to live uncomfortably together for eternity.

not that I'm wanting to move to my parents basement, or start clubbing, or start a garage band or something. I just always feel like a kid walking around in large adult size shoes.

and I have the habit of sticking my FOOT in my mouth because I speak before the brain turns on. SO I was helping a friend check out a free piano her neighbor was giving away.

Now this was in an empty house and It looked like a realtor was there so I didn't know this piano had sentimental value to anyone. So I looked it over and played up and down it and said....Well it's about a hundred years old and the sound board is kinda cracking but you have nothing to lose. And if you play it for ten years you can always have a sacrificial burning in the backyard when you can afford to buy a new one.

at that the lady gasped and was like..."Oh please please don't. this was my aunt's piano and she just went into a nursing home and she loved this piano. I just want someone to love this piano."

whoops. I felt bad....."Just kidding of course....oh no. I've definetely seen way worse pianos...I've had way worse pianos..and this one well....she's a beauty. A really beauty." As I scooted out the door.


hopefully they still give her the piano.

then I had to go sign papers to refinance the house.

we stopped by the library and Addie realizing we've read every single "Froggy" book and every single "Junie B. Jones" book. So now we're looking for a new series.....

something funny was Eva praying over lunch today. She has been independently saying prayers ALL THE TIME. It is so cute...she always has her eyes open and she looks at whatever she is praying about. So she was like...."Please bless the noonoos (noodles) Please bless Addie's Noonoos (noodles) Please bless the water, please bless Addies water, Please bless the (staring at the peaches) I no know....Please bless Addie's (staring at the peaches) I no know.

Those were the highlights of this May day.



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"that we all have greater powers than we think; that whatever we want to learn or learn to do, we probably can learn; that our lives and our possibilities are not determined and fixed by what happened to us when we were little, or by what experts say we can or cannot do.” - John Holt

He was one of the first modern day proponents of homeschooling and wrote a series of books that are inspiring. He wrote this referring to his learning to play the cello at age 50....i thought it was cool.