Because we are borderline insane, we had a realtor over to tell us what we could sell our house for. There was land we were looking at, we've been looking for a house for YEARS and haven't found anything (lowered our expectations in August and STILL didn't find anything) and the seller's market is crazy right now. He told us what we could sell it for and we said come back next week and put a sign in the yard. (And then we still raised the price of what he told us to list it at.)
We have been wanting to get the roof of our house cleaned but have been putting it off because it only lasts three years. When you decide to sell, you gotta get that done. These poor guys were up (WAY up) there and it was literally 34 degrees out. I felt bad for them. But the roof looks great now!
"Take a picture of us, mommy!"
We moved half of our crap to Papa's (because that's where we will be living), cleaned our house really well and left. Because I CAN NOT handle living there, trying to keep it clean, school 4 children, cooking and having 4 children running around.
This is Adelyn's owl from Oma. Adelyn's owl had half a torn leg. Lincoln fixed that problem and ripped it off. Adelyn asked me to sew it and I didn't have my stuff. Papa overheard (somehow) and sat down with his kit and glasses and sewed it on. I texted Eric and his brothers this picture while they were at work. Insert laughing while crying emoticon.
We were doing school, because no rest for the weary, and Brecken couldn't figure out how to write 22. He got the first 2. He couldn't get the second 2. Despite my many repeated "Twenty TWO's." After 10 minutes of crying, and me staring at him, he says "Oh! Two!" {And please notice the cheat sheet he is holding} And I yanked out my hair.
Officially land owners!!! The girls wouldn't get out because it was freezing and because we have visited the same piece of property precisely 22 times in 5 days.
Our closest neighbors are a pair of bald eagles.
And when we got back from taking our celebratory picture, there was a for sale sign in the yard! That just got real.
My Thursday side kick came to church to work for a little bit with me.
"Take a picture mommy!" Thanks for opening your eyes.
No phone dump is complete without a crazy bird lady picture.
Rocking him to sleep will never get old.
Haircuts for the littlest three::
Monday date day and Flicks Family Film Festival. We went to see Monster Trucks. We were the only ones there. Homeschool perks.
{Normally this is not a repetitive thing. I think it's maybe happened one or two other times TOTAL}
But here we are again. B is {according to public school, this is the beauty of homeschool} way behind in reading. I don't ever tell him this. We started the beginning of the year not knowing most letters or any sounds. He is almost to the end of the year and he knows all letters big and small and most of the sounds. Learning is progressing. He's moving at his own pace. I assure you, there are many thing he excels at Joelle most certainly does not. I wanted to try and have him read a couple words out of our first AAR book. He sounded out the first three words and did great. Then we get to the fourth word and he just loses it. He sounds it out 112 times. Cries for a long time. Then says it. So frustrating. For him and me. I put away these books for now. I did start him on our Bob books and those were so much better. With those, they have a little review section in the beginning and they only focus on those letters. He read half of the book and was very encouraged. We stopped while we were ahead.
We ended the month feeling like this::
B started with the fever. It lasted off and on for a week. Joelle had it for a little less. L had it for a day.
I am not sure what they are doing...
Then Adelyn got it on Monday and I got it on Tuesday. It flattened us. Fevers, coughs, runny noses, couldn't move.
Joelle finished her AAR chapter books a couple weeks ago. She's on a mission to read all the Bob books. She read 10 to me in one sitting.
This was my view on the other end of the couch::
This is what we call supervised cutting::
It took us four tries. We found our streaker.
Our appraiser gave us two hours notice. I was sleeping on the couch when I got the text. Thankfully I woke up to the buzzing. I called Eric frantically and had him come home. Our house was TRASHED. My just as sick as us Mom came to get the kids and Eric and I frantically cleaned. Then he came 15 minutes early and I had to sneak out the garage because I was not fit to be seen. I didn't trust myself driving around so I drove down the street and slept in the back of my truck. He was there for over TWO HOURS.
I was so bored.
