- Today most of the kids' friends started to school. This changes things a little bit-we had been letting the kids stay up later to chat/play video games with their friends each night. However, all those people were quiet much earlier last night since they all have to wake up at the crack of dawn.
- Campbell was walked around here all day not knowing what to do with herself since the last few weeks she has constantly been on a facetime call chatting with her people. Today, no one was around until late afternoon.
- Our school day went well. Reagan still hasn't started her school. One of her classes start on Thursday, but today she spent her morning helping paint Alyssa's parking space, eating lunch out, and then going to Raymar while Anderson and Alyssa worked.
- We took Keaton, Campbell, and Whitman to Defy for a little bit today. We thought that it would be less crowded but it really wasn't. The homeschoolers were turning out in force on the first day of school or there are a few more schools around here that haven't started just yet.
- By the time we made it home from Defy and our library stop, Anderson had gone to meet Alyssa and Reagan at Raymar. He had to work to get things ready for football tryouts tomorrow. They came home while Robby, the girls, and I were watching a video about our Halloween party at Disney in a few weeks.
- Supper tonight was on your own-though I did end up making all of the boys' suppers so I guess it really wasn't that own you own. When supper was finished, Keaton had a shower while Anderson hopefully started on one of his school things.
- I think that plan is to soon watch some Rookie and possibly have a snack!
August 14, 2023
August 13, 2023
- Today was promotion Sunday at Geyer so we all had new classrooms. I had gone Thursday with Keaton to set up our room, so I didn't have much to do this morning to get ready. We did have a full classroom full of 21 first graders so the morning went by very quickly.
- Mostly all of the kids had new Sunday school teachers. Reagan is now in the senior class. and she has a great group of teachers including one wonderful teacher! Keaton has now moved up to the youth group, so it is quite different for us only having one kiddo down in children's department.
- Graham was baptized this morning. This summer he began questioning his salvation, but he settled that at one of his camps later in the summer. Since the downstairs baptistry is under construction, that meant that he was baptized upstairs in the venue.
- This was the first time that Robby (and all of our parents) had ever been to the Venue service. It is surprisingly similar to the one downstairs except it is in a different place and darker.
- We had our lunch at Grannymom and Grandpa's house tonight. She had a delicious breakfast casserole. And then after lunch we hung around a visited for a little bit before going home.
- At home, I finished my book (I'm not out of books until I get myself to the library). Then the big 4 started heating to Rock Creek. While they were gone, I went to work on tomorrow's list-I was able to mark a few things off so that hopefully helped for tomorrow.
- We all met up at the Wilson's house after the kids finished church. They had breakfast-we like all of our lunch meals and supper meals to match! Their breakfast was completely different since they had breakfast quesadillas.
- The kids played some games after eating while the grownups sat around and visited. Now we are trying to get the kids in bed-and I am watching them throw down armful and armful of laundry!
August 12, 2023
- On Friday nights the kids can stay up as late as they want. I do sometimes ask the big boys to make sure that Whitman does go to sleep at a reasonable time, but their definition of reasonable is probably different than mine.
- Graham slept in the bonus room, so I would figure that he did sleep fairly well last night. Campbell, however, text me at 3 this morning asking if we had soy sauce. I saw her text when I woke up and asked if she needed it last night for some reason. Today when Robby and I were at the store, I did buy her some which she promptly used in a ramen recipe that she made.
- Robby and I only saw Graham this morning when we left the house-first stop was a hair cut for me. Then we had lunch at King Burrito new place. It was good-but Robby and I both thought that their chips tasted a little bit like cleaner.
- Then it was on to Sams, Walmart, Bath and Body Works, and finally we had to split up. Robby dropped me off at Costco while he ran into Kroger. By that time we had too many cold things in the car plus we were both buying more cold/frozen items so we couldn't dally.
- At home we unloaded all of our groceries, and then had a few minutes of downtime before we all loaded up to go to Nonna and Pops' house.
- We met Jason over there and celebrated Nonna's birthday a day early-we had flowers, cupcakes, cinnamon rolls and Jason had presents. I think that it was a fairly decent birthday celebration. We visited there for a while before heading home.
- Soon Campbell's friends started arriving. I lost count at 10 but I think there might have been 11 kiddos here. They mostly stayed outside playing killball, capture the flag and volleyball. The Wilsons, Brett and Carson came over as well so we had a house full. Robby picked up pizza, and I had made brownies, but we never really told the kids about the brownies so we just ate them.
- Some folks are still finishing their showers, and possibly there is a meteor shower tonight to see, but hopefully bedtime is still coming up soon.
August 11, 2023
- This was a fairly lazy Friday. Graham did sleep in the bonus room because he wanted to wake up at 5. I am not sure why he wanted to wake up at 5-he has been telling me that he is having a hard time going to sleep so I have told him to wake up earlier but maybe he wanted to get an early start on his leftover school work.
- Needless to say, he wasn't awake at 9:30 when I woke up everyone that still had school work left to go this week-Anderson, Campbell, and Graham. Anderson got right to his school work, and so did Campbell. I am still always surprised to see that she is wearing her glasses.
- I again did some work with Anderson and Graham on their physical science. I think the workload in that class will level out within the next week or so-or at least I hope so. Anderson starts his real classes, and I want those to be his priority.
- Robby and I took Anderson and Keaton to Defy for a little bit of jumping time. Robby worked, and I read. Keaton and Anderson played together for a good while. Then he played some basketball while she jumped. On the way home, we stopped at the gas station to buy some drinks.
- We weren't long too home before the big 4 headed to church tonight for the student's worship night. On the way home the stopped at ChickFilA were some ate and some didn't.
- Meanwhile Keaton was busy cooking at home-she made chocolate cookies, and then she made orange chicken for her supper. Whitman had already eaten some pizza, Robby had a sandwich, and I had leftover pasta.
- I am sure that there will be quite a bit of tv watching and ice cream eating later in the evening-at least I hope so!
August 10, 2023
- Reagan and Campbell were the first ones to leave this morning. They met the other students at the church house for Student Serve Day, and then headed to a church on Asher. There they worked all morning in the church's resale shop.
- Anderson and Graham were up for a bit and did some school work before they headed to their science class. Whitman woke up when the big boys did, and he worked mainly with me most of the morning. He was pretty pleased that he was finished well before lunch this morning.
- At 1130, I woke up Keaton. Since she had finished all of her school yesterday so she enjoyed sleeping in. As soon as the boys were out of their science class, they hurried home.
- Keaton and I were waiting for them while holding their lunch-breakfast burritos for Graham and grilled cheese for Anderson. I drove them straight to meet the others at the church where Reagan and Campbell were.
- A bit later, the youth headed over to the Arkansas Food Bank to do some work there. I think that they really enjoyed working there. I bet that they were a little bit tired from working so hard today.
- When Keaton and I dropped them off, we headed to our church house so we could work on my Sunday school room. She was a great help, and it didn't take long before we were finished.
- The big 4 made it home about 5 this afternoon. Campbell was home for about 10 minutes when she left again with Keaton. The middle school from Rock Creek went to Main Event tonight so Robby dropped them off there.
- They had a big time-eating pizza, bowling, playing games, and winning lots of candy. This busy week has now included 2 trips to Main Event for Campbell. (plus a full week of school, a whole day of work at Student Serve day, a lip sync battle and tomorrow is worship night, and she is having friends over Saturday.)
- While they were gone, I made some pasta for supper tonight. This was the pasta that I had made before, and the kids thought it was too zesty. Anderson said he thought it was better tonight-he gave me a 6 out of 10. (I asked him to continue his ratings-ramen was an 8, a cup of mac and cheese was a 6, and chicken alfredo a 9)
- Everyone is home now, and since today is national s'mores day that is what this evening's snack is going to be!
August 9, 2023
- I did wake up earlier this morning than yesterday morning, but still I think this waking up in the mornings is catching up with me. I still was up and had brushed the dog before it was time to start on our school work.
- The dog brushing is a big priority for me right now-just so much hair. Keaton has thought about going to cooking camp two times next year so I told her she would have to come up with the tuition money for one of them. She had the idea that she could bake something and then sell it on Facebook. I said that was fine with me but the more I think about it, we will have to bake at someone else's house so there is not dog hair in the food. Dang golden retriever!
- That was all completely unrelated to today's activities. The boys had quite a bit of physical science to do today. It didn't help that I disagreed with the teacher about the answers to many of the problems. We just did it my way (which Google also agreed with), but that took a bit of time.
- Keaton finished all of her work for today and tomorrow. Campbell has to leave early tomorrow so we will not read together in the morning. She decided that since we wouldn't read, then she would just sleep on it. Though I am not sure how that will happen since everyone else will have to be up (boys all to do school work first thing in the morning and Campbell and Reagan to get ready to go to church).
- Campbell will be gone all day tomorrow for Student Serve day so she worked super hard today and knocked out all of her school as well. Actually, she still has about 3 different things to do, but for the most part she is done.
- When we did finish school today, Campbell and I went to pick up her glasses. And just as I expected she is even cuter with them on. I looked through them or just a little bit, and really couldn't tell a difference. (However, my eyes have felt strained since then so I am not sure if her glasses did that to me or if I have just made myself crazy.) She acted like she is able to see better in them. I had just told her that I wanted her to wear them here at home consistently, but she could choose if she wanted to wear them out of the house-and she did tonight when they went to church.
- When we came home, the big boys started making ice cream in a bag. This is where you fill one ziplock bag with ice cream ingredients and another with ice and shake it until it turns to ice cream.
- High school boys with a bag of ice just really turns into a mess, but they had a lot of fun doing it. Graham was still shaking his when I had to run to the Wilsons for a second. So he offered to drive me in the suburban over there.
- He has never driven the suburban, but he did fine. Keaton was about to go on a walk with Bentley so they went to, and Reagan came along as well. I wish I could have recorded Reagan's face as Graham was backing out of their driveway.
- Back at home, there was a bit of time before Reagan, Anderson, Graham, and Campbell left for the lip sync batter at church. Keaton will be officially in the student ministry on Sunday, but Reagan convinced her to come anyway tonight so she did.
- Whitman has been watching a Phineas and Ferb marathon for most of the afternoon. I am about to have to take the remote control away from him so I don't lose my mind-thankfully none of the episodes are the ones that I have seen.
- Campbell's group ended up winning the Lip Sync battle so she was pleased that they earned doughnuts for Sunday morning. On the way home, they stopped at ChickFilA to grab a bite to eat with some of their friends.
August 8, 2023
- Bentley and I woke right up at 6:30 this morning when a loud clap of thunder crashed. I am not sure if she was in bed with me or if she quickly joined me. I pulled her close to me though, and we went on back to sleep.
- I have been doing so well waking up in time to get most of my things done before school starts, but today was the exception. I barely managed to brush my teeth before beginning school this morning. Thankfully though things calmed down so I was able to catch up before noon.
- Today was Anderson and Graham's first day at Comm Central. Graham only has physical science, and Anderson has it as well, but he also had 2 other classes that have not yet started. They weren't too happy about the class-there are 9th graders in the class and only one other boy.
- When they went to church for class, they also took Campbell. The students were going to Main Event today, and she would have had to arrive about 30 minutes after the boys got to church, so I convinced her to just go early with them and hang out.
- Soon she was on the bus for Main Event, and the boys drove to meet everyone there when their class was over. I think that they all had fun there-Campbell came home with a bag of little trinkets from the claw machine, and Anderson won some candy.
- While they were gone, I went with Keaton and Whitman to Defy. She loves jumping on the trampoline, but when he is "forced" to go, he doesn't enjoy it much. But I enjoyed sitting on the couch there and reading my book.
- We came home, then the big boys and Campbell arrived about 30 minutes later. And 30 minutes after that Robby showed up from Memphis where he had had the camper worked on.
- We had grown fairly concerned about what all was wrong with the camper and what that was going to do to our financial situation. However, the fix it man said the axle, wheel bearings, and springs were all fine. He also said that Robby must have just had bad luck and gotten bad tires. They aligned the camper, and Robby was soon on his way soon.
- We were home for a bit when we went on our next errand. The Wilsons had a spare car so we took it for a test drive. Reagan even took the car for a test drive, and when she gave the thumbs up, Robby purchased the car. I am pretty sure that Reagan is tickled about this new to her car.
- Robby and I then went to Costco to pick up a supper for the kids-a rotisserie chicken and a pizza. By the time we came home, they also had corn and mashed potatoes made. We then ran to get gas for the new car and for the minivan. Then Robby went into Kroger while I headed home with the kids supper.
- Reagan was watching a movie in the living room with Campbell and Keaton, but they have both deserted her. Campbell to chat with her friends on the phone, and Keaton to do her school work. I am hiding out in my bedroom because Reagan has turned off all of the lights for her movie, and I just can't sit in the dark.
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