Lots to Do

Some things that I am learning around here:

1. You can get bacteria in your gums through a loose tooth.  Leading to an infection and the need for antibiotics.
2. Not many people except our insurance
3. Living in the middle of nowhere means lots of driving to appointments meaning long hours in cars.
4. Living with family means stress beyond belief in times followed by appreciation and the both of them can come so after each other making me feel less sane.
5. Sometimes you just need to talk to get over what ever is bothering you no matter how big or small
6. We all need forgiveness and most importantly we all need to forgive even more.  Unforgiveness can lead you to a bitter heart, heartache, depression, anger, and so many other negative things.  It also does not help, protect, or advance you in any way.  So forgive some one today!!

There are many other things that I'm learning but for the moment that's enough.  I finally got Pumpkin an eye doctor appointment a lot sooner than April!! Yeay!!  In fact it's on Monday!  Phew as soon as I made the appointment I felt a huge weight just lift off of my shoulders.  Mr A is the one with the loose teeth that got some bacteria up in them and came down with an infection.  I took him to the ER and they gave him some antibiotics.  Once the antibiotics were gone though and his gums cleared up...it came back.  I don't know if he got more bacteria up there or if it just looked gone but it is definitely back.  I wonder if it's how he brushes his teeth...anyways it's a new thing for me to watch out for.  Both of his front teeth have been loose for awhile now and they don't seem willing to fall out (yes I wiggled them around and tried to help them out.  They loosened more but are still holding on).  So tomorrow he has a dentist appointment and they will hopefully help us out.

Monkey is doing well.  He is having a little bit of trouble with selfishness and stubbornness.  I am hoping to help him work it out.  He is the middle child enough said right?  I have been letting him join in more with school.  Last week we did letters with clay and paper.  He had so much fun he did two letters and then wanted to do some more.  I made him some colored rice for his birthday and he loves it.  I made him a purple, green, blue, and yellow bucket with little scoops in each one I plan on having him 'write' letters in them or just make lines either way is fun practice for him.  I told you I would tell you how his party went and let me tell you it was great.  Not many people were able to come because of the weather but the ones that did come had a fun time.  We were unable to make the foam swords due to money ehhm.  So we improvised and made cardboard swords reinforced with tape and cardboard shields that we colored and added foam decorations to.  We used twine to make little arm holds for them.  My parents got a swing set as a combined birthday present for all the boys and they have been loving it.  It's their first swing set ever so it's a big deal.   We had Trader Joe's food and I made their boxed cake into cupcakes with a homemade cream cheese frosting yum!  If you haven't tried Trader Joe's you are missing out.  I am now in love with their potato vegetable snacks, crackers, and their cheese puffs mmmm.  I will definitely be shopping their more often.  I love that they do not have any dyes in their food. My friend that I have been talking about has a special diet for her family and I am thinking about joining her.  With Hubby's illness and the ADHD here we could use a stricter diet.  It'll be hard while living here but I think we can incorporate it in a little.

Hubby has a doctor's appointment tomorrow to check on his sleep apnea and then either take the machine or adjust it's settings.  I definitely do not think they will be taking it but they probably will be adjusting it some.  So that's two appointments tomorrow in separate cities. I really think that we need to see if someone can take one of us or we will miss an appointment.  Hubby has been 'detoxing' off of his meds this week and needs to go back to see his doctor and get new ones but we are hoping to find a more natural doctor because he doesn't seem to be taking well to all the chemicals.  Well here's to hoping we finally find the right one!

Homeschooling is my favorite part of my life!  This week we made bird houses I can't wait to get my camera this weekend so I can take pictures and show you guys how well they turned out!  I found them at a blog I read.  When I post my pictures I will link back to her blog so you guys can see how cute hers are.  We had a whole day of playing board games, playing with Tinker Toys, puzzles, and coloring. We even had Pumpkin playing with us.  One day we just had recess all day.  Yes I believe that it is a class lol.  The boys were playing so well together outside and it's not a normal occurrences without the usual 'I'm bored', 'he's being mean', 'he won't share', and the myriad other things they try to come in for so I left them out there playing until lunch time and when they woke up from their naps they were back out there.  We are going to be doing some car schooling this week to make all our appointments so I think we will be doing a lot of reading.

I hope that your all doing well this week and I will let you know how our appointments go :)

Today in a nutshell

The results of last nights pedometer reading was exactly 7000 steps pretty weird how it was perfectly on the dot.  Tonight so far I am on a mere 3317 I am disappointed but I must give myself slack because I am sick.  I am having a hard time even breathing so moving around today was not on my priorities list.  I can't wait to feel better and get back to my walking I already feel like I am back tracking. 

Brian tried  to fix our van today but the serpentine belt that he was putting on slipped off and got ripped so now we have to get a new one of those and then hope it works.  So still no car.

A couple of days ago Bren fell and hit his head ever since then I have noticed his eye was starting to cross.  It's looking pretty bad.  I noticed when he was a baby that it would turn in slightly and asked the doctor about it but he didn't notice it.  Now with him having hit his head it really turns in and it weirds him out.  I looked up on the net and found some local doctors to call and hopefully they take our insurance.  From what I read it is fixable with therapy, glasses, and sometimes surgery.  So we will see what the doctor's say about it.

Aidan did a lot better with his homework today.  We were done by I think four.  Which is still not good but way better than yesterday.  He gets lazy so I'm hoping to work that out of him.  If any one has any ideas on what to do with a lazy schooler let me know because I could use them.  I would like school to be done looong before four.  Our new word in sign language today was soup.  So as of today he now knows 80 words in sign language.  We played with geoboards and did some more addition flashcards.  He really likes the geoboards so I let him play with them for a long time.  We also did a science experiment with Crisco and ice water to show what insulation does.  He thought it was pretty cool and it tied into the lesson we did on whales recently.  I am really happy with how he's progressing I wish he would remember his numbers by sight a lot better than he does.  Any number over nine is really hard for him to name unless its shown in line with the other numbers.  We are working with flash cards of the numbers and hopefully he will start to get them down. 

Today Bri and I made turkey pot pies for dinner.  He made to crusts from a recipe I found on allrecipes.com named Butter Flaky Crust and it turned out really well.  I made I huge pot of the gravy, veggie, turkey mix so that we had to make three pot pies so we will be having left overs tomorrow.

That's it for now have a great day!