March Madness

March 3 -
Addison, watching the show 'Property Virgins':
 "The people are nicer when their budget is smaller."


March 4 - Haircuts!

 

March 5 -
Jeff is on an adventure, driving to S. Carolina and back to get a 32'x20' military surplus tent. It's to store the pieces to our house... but Addison SWEARS it's my birthday present... and I think it's kinda funny that he would seriously believe it is.

The tent, where we will be storing the lumber we cut.

Scaffolding for lumber storage = Jungle Gym!

Using pipes to move heavy beams.

The unfinished Gypsy Wagon... waiting for its time again...

March 6 -
So far this morning, before 10am: woke up LATE, had to bring girls to my class in PJ's and change them in the bathroom, realized the bunny is near labor and it's 40 degrees out (had to add way more hay to nesting box and cover cage with blanket- nervous!), didn't have time to shower (hat day), Ivey accidentally pulled her NEWLY pierced earring out with the seatbelt (couldn't get it back in), had to DIG through the outdoor garbage can for receipt to Claire's so we can get a repeat piercing, and it's COLD. I want to go back to bed and start OVER. 



Let's focus on today's wins: After a discussion on Tuesday with. Olive about how momma does NOT respond well to statements that begin with "you should", "you should've", "you shouldn't have", etc, I explained ways to reword comments into less abrasive ones. Today, she started to say "you should have" and then switched to "next time can you give me fruit snacks, please?" No prompting needed!


March 10 - 
Muffin had her sweet little kits! There are maybe 4? They are completely buried in her nest, so it's hard to tell!


March 11 -
Ivey has now lost two teeth. She's getting too big!!






March 14 -
This morning, Ivey declared that it was pajama day. Unless there is some rule on the books that says no hockey in pj's, she's good.

 
March 19 -
Today, the girls were singing, "Shoo fly, don't bother me... Shoo fly, don't bother me..." on repeat.

After about 10 minutes, Asa looked up from his book and asked, "Girls, why don't soufflés bother you?"


March 20 -
What it's like raising little nerdy kids: Olive was trying to explain that her picture had been moved from the side of her bed onto her bed post. She didn't have the word for the 'post', but she knew the base was a square, and that it was tall and 3D. The only words she could come up with was "it's a... like a... cylinder square". When I finally figured out what she was trying to describe, we added 'rectangular prism' (and specifically 'square prism') to her vocabulary.

 

March 21 -
Olive succeeded in making me seriously gag at dinner, as she explained that she could go get a chicken, push it into the juicer, it would just disappear, and then she could have chicken juice in her cup.


March 22 -
Jeff has bribed me on another Craigslist road trip-adventure, with a stay at a bed & breakfast.  This trip is  to pick up another military tent....cause you can never have just one!


March 25 -
Homeschooling, raising four beautiful kiddos, allowing them a sport/activity, running a household, running a small homeschool program, and keeping a very small farm running smoothly is stressful enough. I deliberately reduce any unnecessary anxiety and stress. So, if you see me with my shirt inside out (like yesterday), heading through the drive thru window at dinner time (again), or wonder why I don't even attempt to workout, it's because I intentionally hold on to as much peace and eliminate as much stress as possible. If you call me a slacker, know that I am a HAPPY slacker!

Chess Club!

March 27 -
Gotta brag on my boy for a minute. Writing is not our forte... but history is. He wrote a descriptive easy of a boy's perspective on the tearing down of the Berlin Wall. Three sentences particularly made me smile.

"Finally, you could walk through an open tunnel to meet friends, family, and freedom."

"Holes poked out of the walls like huge scabs."

And

"Scotzy smells the determination in everyone around him."

I'm not saying our essays will always be so great, but this one makes me feel like we are on our way!

 


March 28  -
Ivey's thoughts on having one bathroom for 6 people, " I like sharing toys, but not toilets."







March 31 -
Preschool was delayed today (fixing a gas problem in the bldg), so the girls are workin' at Starbucks with me during the boys' math class.