A weekend of de-cluttering!

The anti-clutter bug bit me in the butt again this weekend and I had to do some cleaning out, throwing away and rearranging. I rearranged a few things in the living room, cleaned, reorganized, etc. etc. then I got hold of the girls' closet and drawers. I loaded three huge garbage bags full of old clothes, mostly too worn out, stained up and ugly to pass down to anyone I actually like. So it will be dropped off today. Hopefully somewhere somebody can get some use out of it (maybe as cleaning rags? I don't know. If I had any place to store all those "cleaning rags" I would keep them and recycle them myself! lol) I did salvage a pair of boots for Sarah Jane, now that she is doing horseback, maybe she can use them. Brooke only wore them a few times and then outgrew them.

After that was done, I cleaned out my craft box and sewing stuff and took a lot of it to my cabinet at work. Then I got my junk drawer and actually eliminated it. I found a place for everything that was in it. If only I could do that with Jeff's junk drawer!

I thought I was done writing curriculum but it turns out I wasn't. I had hoped to find some kind of art for the girls to do either on cd/rom or via dvd or a free class somewhere that fit into our schedule. But so far nothing. Then I found a book in Veletta's (one of my bosses) office while looking for arts & crafts for 4 year olds. Everything in this book seemed a little too advanced for fours (Veletta keeps a lot of resourced around for school age kids, too since she is very involved with ASAP) so I got Brooke to look through it and pick out about 15 or so projects that she was interested in. Kayti did the same but it turned out they like a lot of the same mediums. So I took what they wanted to do, created a little "art history" lesson around it, made an assignment to go with each activity and voila--we now have an art curriculum! It should take us through the entire school year.


Now Lord, can I please be done with writing curriculum for awhile? LOL Not that I haven't enjoyed it. But sometimes it's mind boggling!

Have I mentioned lately how great my little class is? LOL I am not kidding, they are definitely the best class I have ever had and the best class at the Academy (okay, maybe I'm partial). I wish someone would call their parents and tell them to make those children give me back my heart! It is so much fun and such a huge blessing being around them each and every day.

We are slowly but surely working all the kinks out of Dylan's old truck. The timing still needs to be adjusted. Jeff would normally be able to do that but is having trouble getting some kind of cap off something--don't ask me! They are planning to ask my sister's father in law for help this weekend. But he did drive it to work yesterday and it did fine--until he locked his keys in it! Oh well, we've all done it haven't we? Fortunately, Jeff had an extra set. We just had to go all the way home to Clay and then back to Leeds again!

Speaking of the Hendersons...I saw new ultrasound pictures of Baby Henderson last week. She/he is growing beautifully! We get to find out what it is at the end of September. I am praying for a girl! I LOVE boys and would be completely happy with another little man in the family but I'm so not liking the boy names she has picked out. I'd rather have a Bella!

Speaking of babies, my niece Kristin delivered Baby Tyler a few weeks ago via emergency C-section. Her blood pressure shot sky high and stayed high for a week after his birth. She'd had to take steroids while she was pregnant with him because she kept going into premature labor and they were trying to get his lungs to hurry up and develop. He was born a month early but still weighed in at 6 lbs 15 oz! She had such a difficult time that I fear he may be an only child for her but only God knows. I know she knows he was worth it, though. He is the love of her life (of course)! I still haven't gotten to meet him yet, but hopefully this weekend.


Blessings,