Rowdy's got it.

Well this has been quite the month for us. Last Wednesday I started getting sick. Finally by Monday I felt like I was on the mend. This is Wednesday and I am much better although I do still have a nagging headache. Not even ibuprofen will knock this headache. Enough about me. Let's talk about my little ones. So Monday we started back to a normal school schedule and all went well till Rowdy got up today. YUP! Hello, stomach bug. We got started doing school and did our verses, and the handwriting page and Rowdy said his belly was hurting. So he went to bed, then to the bathroom, then to the bathroom. You see where I am going with this. Well yesterday evening Paisley had about 5 dirty diapers in a few hour time period and really I didn't think much of it cause it wasn't loose per say. Well it sure clicked this morning. So Rowdy has laid around all day and I have monitored his temperature and changed more dirty diapers on Paisley. I really thought the sickness had went down the road and tonight we were going to get to go back to Church. WRONG! So sad but I knew he was sick when I mentioned Church and he said no way can I go. I feel like we haven't been to Church in a month and I am tired of it but we will be back and this I know. Guess what? I cant wait either!!! I wonder if people long to go to Church like we do? I really look forward to going and learning more. Oh, I can learn the Word here at home but there is nothing like hearing it explained to you and get right to the root of what God has gave us to learn. I LOVE IT! There is always Sunday and did I mention I am looking forward to it! Meanwhile back at the house Rowdy is running a low grade fever. CRUD!

Sick

Well crud!!!! I am sick! I think I have the stinking rotten flu! I thought today that I would just be better. Wrong! Now it is in my ears, nose and throat. I can't swallow without my throat hurting. Can't talk without it hurting. Now my head hurts too. It has been rather quiet around here needless to say. I made Kris get me out of the house(we drove around) today because I felt like I was stewing in my own juices here. So we turned the heater off in the house, opened a window and left. Came back after I had a good nap on the road. I didn't feel any better after all that and the house was cold. Go figure! Bah humbug to this Saturday! I guess if I am not better by Monday then I will suck it up and go to the Dr. I hate to go to the Dr especially not having insurance. So if anyone reads this please say a prayer that I get better quick! I let school slide on Thursday and Friday. By sliding I mean we didn't finish it all each day. No biggie really but if I had a sub it would have been better! HA! I am really hoping that I am better by morning so we can go to Church cause I despise missing Church. I feel so out of touch with my whole week. Like everything is not starting on the right foot. Well I think I will go and let my ear boil with peroxide then I will put some sweet oil in it and hit the sheets soon. Sorry for the whining.....not really.

Detox Bath

I took a detox bath tonight after fighting this head cold stuff all day. Yesterday I had a cough and sore throat of the evening but when I woke this morning it was bad. I went to the store this morning and grabbed several drugs and decided then that I need to try this detox bath to see if that helps. Well I went to Moms house to get in her garden tub and I dumped in 2 cups of Epsom salts, 1 cup of baking soda and about 1/4 cup of ginger. Boy, did I start to sweat. I sat in there for about 30 minutes then I put Paisley in it and she played for about 10 minutes. I got out of the tub about 6:40 and am still sweating and its 7:55. I got home and put away dinner, did some laundry and was sure I was going to pass out in weakness and hot. So I took my temperature thinking maybe I was feverish but I don't have a fever. Hopefully this helps rid me of whatever but I am not counting on it but it was rather disturbing how much it made me sweat.

I forgot to post this last night. My brain is pretty cloudy still but I think everything is lose and moving around so that's good. Not sure that the bath worked for me but it sure didn't hurt me.

School Room and some other rambles

Well we have been doing school in the dining room utilizing one end of the dining room table and really it gets pretty spread out and so then it stays and has to be shoved to one end to sit at the table to eat. So Kris has decided that I need to move the school stuff into the toy room. I have put my foot down after the whole escapade with bathroom DS that I will not move anything till there is some sort of partition put up to block view of toys. I have a feeling that I will be constantly in there making sure he isn't playing. Anyways so nothing has moved but the play room is much more clean! HA!

Paisley has decided that she likes to take an evening nap instead of an afternoon nap and she wont go to sleep till we drive around. Tonight I took off and drove through the "hood" and then went towards town and got to the four way stop and looked back and she was crashed! Completely gone. I drove up and around by the cemetery and said Hi to Dad and then came on back home. We visit his grave once per week. I assume that will taper off because I never see anyone else visiting their loved ones but I sure like to go and see his pretty headstone with his handsome face on it. It is a good reminder of his face.

We have been doing family fun nights on Tuesday nights and it is a lot of fun. We end up playing A LOT of board games and I must say that I am not getting any better at Yahtzee. I find that game rather confusing. I want to complete them in order of the sheet and not think about it much more than that but that isn't the name of the game. I guess that is just the blonde coming out. I rock at Connect Four though and am pretty good at pick up sticks. You know those no brainer games. 

Paper Rater....

I found a FREE online site that you can use for a grammar check......cha ching! I bet this will be fun. It will probably irritate me so much and confuse me cause it doesn't "get me" that I will just quit blogging but I am going to give it a whirl. Stay tuned for less confusion....errr maybe!

Quiet....not Quite.

Apparently I have been needing Quite time not Quiet time. Yeah, I am goofy and didn't even notice. Darn it I need grammar check. Thanks Shanna for pointing this out of me. So until next time when I need a quiet time which will probably be quite sometime away! HA!

I got a laugh out of it but I really do need to do better. There is always next time. :) 

Fail

It's one of those days or hey even one of those weeks. We have done school for hours on end and no that isnt an issue but the fighting to get things done is the issue. He is understanding things fine but he doesnt want to do any of it. Today he was writing his spelling words four times each and it took almost 2 hours cause he procrastinated the whole way through it. Meanwhile here is MY fail. On Monday during school Rowdy started going to the bathroom A LOT during school. I just assumed he was going and doing his business although sometimes he would take forever to poop. Anyways I would yell (Yes, yell. That's the kind of person I am when at my wits end) "Hurry up and POOP!" So this goes on for Monday, Tuesday and then started the day off with doing it too. Let me lay the scene out for you for today. I tell him that he has to write each spelling word 4 times each. He whines no, not 4 times. I say ok how about 6 times each. He says ok fine 4 times each is what I'll do. So then after about 30 minutes of writing a few of the words he goes into the bathroom. Meanwhile I am doing this and that and I yell hurry up and poop. So he reappears about 10 minutes after my yelling. So then he works on the words some more and about another 30 minutes go by and off to the bathroom he goes. Well this time I decided to see what the deal was instead of yelling at him. Well guess what I see when I walk into the bathroom. My little boy sitting on the pot playing his Nintendo DS game. Plugged in and charging so conveniently while he "Poops". Well I grew up with the phrase(I will clean it up) "Poop or get off the pot" Well I explained that phrase to my beloved little boy today. I also took the DS away for weekdays and it can only be played on the weekends and NEVER to be played in the bathroom nor charged in the bathroom. Really why did it take me to Wednesday to figure this out? I am so slow! The crazy kid has a weird stomach and so I really thought he was pooping. So mind you when I discovered he was playing his DS my Mom walked in the house and got to witness the whole scene. I was really close to throwing the DS away. I was so peeved about it. Happy School week here at the Lemley's.

 I wonder if anyone else has these crazy shenanigans going on at their homeschool?