WOW! September!!!!

I always forget how crazy September is.

* I've been decluttering.

Homeschool materials are being sorted out. What we won't use will be posted on freecycle.

Picture books and story books were sorted yesterday. I had two boxes to give away. Posted them at 12:07 on freecycle and by 12:57 I had to post that they were already gone!

Sorted things in the storage closet. I have three boxes for Goodwill and two for the garbage can!

It FEELS SO GOOD!

* The girls have been busy helping other people.

Yesterday they painted a barn. Today they get to finish it. When they get done they take their turn at the fair in our churches prayer booth. Christina gets to label a bunch of water bottles to give out first thing this morning. When their turn is up at the fair they will head to help a friend who has had some major trials with her health and they will clean her house for her.

*Christina has the sermon time to share her Africa experience with Valley View. She's been working on it all week, but today is all she has left to refine her presentation.

*We officially started homeschooling this week.

Christina started algebra 1 with a tutor she shares with Ellie. She's actually excited about math - wonders never cease! Brianna also spent 2 hours with the algebra tutor. She has high hopes to pass the algebra section of the Compass at the college. She LOVES algebra. Her statement after her tutoring session: If this is what college algebra will be like, I CAN'T WAIT. Strange kid!

Missy is actually asking to do busy work pages in her workbooks. She isn't bucking me. James is really doing well with his reading. We've been going slow with the Rod and Staff reading program and we really like it that way. He loves going to do school with Peyton at Peyton's neighbor's house 3 hours a day, for three days a week. It's the best thing that has happened since the twins came to live with us. The twins did services at the public school last year for speech and stuff and they were on-on-one, but they were not there long enough on a given day and the teachers changed every 30 minutes.... This is so much, much better!! Though, they will do speech at the public school and possibly the hospital again this year.

*I was able to fill all orders, but do not have enough tomatoes to do farmers market today. It's still nearly a hundred degrees every day, but there just aren't as many tomatoes as there were. We've picked them!! Got to save some for us, too.

*I found homes for a few of the ducklets on freecycle. Still have several to go!!

*It's pear season. So far I have two boxes of red Bartletts to take care.... We will be seeing many more, I'm sure. 

*We finally got the air-conditioning fixed in the house yesterday!! Whew! What a summer.

*The geese aren't liking the fair. They want to be foot-loose and fancy free visiting who they want to visit. What's this being behind bars bit? They think they are in jail. By the way, they have learned to fly, now they have to learn how to land!! NO JOKE. Have you ever had a goose with a 6 foot wing span  fly straight at you looking like they wanted to drop down on your head? Kind of freaky!

*Hooray!! We are going to take a little vacation before Vanessa and Brianna start college. Can't wait.