Adventures with the Ross Family

Personal

Read The Anxious Christian by Rhett Smith (No.)

School

Letter Zz (We are halfway through the lessons.)

Plan Letter Aa (No.)

Home Management

Journal all of Septemember on my Project Life album 2012. 

Take a load of stuff to the thrift store that's just sitting in my laundry room.

And now for this week's goals:

Personal

Read The Anxious Christian by Rhett Smith 

Finish reading Job with my Bible in a Year plan.

School

Finish Zz

Plan Letter Aa

Home Management

Journal all of October on my Project Life Album 2012.

I'm linking to Money Saving Mom!

Julianne has really been a character lately.  A couple of nights back, she disappeared from the living room.  So I went to investigate and found her in the hallway bathroom like this:

She had gotten out a diaper, the wipes, and her dolly.  Can you guess what she was doing?

Why yes, she was diapering her dolly.  She would get a wipe out, wipe her dolly's bottom, and then repeat.  Ten wipes later, I finally stopped her.  I really felt that her dolly's bottom was clean enough.

She was so proud of herself.  After the 10th wipe, both Jax and I were laughing and poor Julie wasn't sure why.  But she sure was having fun!

I think the funniest part is her poor dolly laying facedown on the floor.  I guess to Julie that was logical, but it probably isn't comfortable for the dolly!

Making cookies and watching football.

Wednesday 2

Playing dominos with Yo Gabba Gabba.

Thursday 3

Silly girl.  Accesorizing with Mr. Potato Head's glasses.

Friday 4

I took the kids to the mall play area to run around.  Julie actually posed for me!

Saturday 5

We went out to dinner with some friends at the Pit.  LOVE it!

Sunday 6

No picture.

Monday 7

No picture.

Personal

Read The Anxious Christian by Rhett Smith (I only read about a 1/4th of this book.)

School

Finish Letter Yy

Plan Letter Zz

Home Management

Start journaling on my Project Life album 2012.  I'm behind 3 months and need to get this finished so I can start 2013! (I journaled all of August and now will work on September.)

Organize Julie's room

Take a load of stuff to the thrift store that's just sitting in my laundry room. (No, I didn't make it to the thrift store.)

Onto this week's goals:

Personal

Read The Anxious Christian by Rhett Smith

School

Letter Zz

Plan Letter Aa

Home Management

Journal all of September on my Project Life album 2012. 

Take a load of stuff to the thrift store that's just sitting in my laundry room.

I'm linking to Money Saving Mom!

Jax is 4 1/2 years old.

Bible

Our Bible verse this week is "You are my friends if you do what I command.  John 15:14."  We learned about the story of baby Jesus and how Mary had to ride on a donkey to Bethlehem.  It only seemed fitting to play Pin the Tail on the Donkey, don't you think?  Printable was from First Look Curriculum at Orange.

Math

Suddenly this week something just clicked in Jaxson about adding!  He has been telling me that 1+1=2 and that 2+2=4.  This worksheet was from RRSK.

Sight Words

Jaxson was working on a Word Search from YCR.

We also had a guest at Tot School.  Someone is no longer taking naps and is really messing up my schedule!

While Jax was coloring one of his sight words, Julie colored along as well.

Science

I had seen this science experiment on pinterest and wanted to try it out.  We put candy canes in water to see the stripes come off.  They were supposed to dissolve in the water with the stripes intact, but ours didn't do that.  And as you can see from the multi-colored candy cane, it just made a murky mess.  Still fun though.  We left the candy canes in until they dissolved!

Theme

Jax still loves Yo Gabba Gabba so I found some printables from Nick Jr.  He loved playing the Memory game and learned how to play Dominos.

I'm linking up to Homeschool Creations!

Well, it's 2013 now.  And it doesn't feel much different than yesterday.  Last night I didn't even try to stay up late.  I went to bed at 10.  Fell asleep soon after and then slept in today.  So if my New Year's Resolution was to sleep a lot, I would have been on top of my game!

But I don't make New Year's Resolutions only because I'm perfect just the way I am.  Hardy-har-har.

I did start thinking about my goals for 2013.  I should have them pounded out in the next couple of days.  I did this last year and I loved seeing what I was accomplishing.  Even when there were days that I felt I did nothing at all, I knew in the grand scheme of things, I was making progress.

I see some people are choosing words for 2013.  I thought that was a great idea until I couldn't come up with a word.  Gratitude?  Organize?  Wonder?  Simple?  They all sounded great until I realize that I would have to actually put them to work.  Which would be like making goals.  And see the paragraph above for that.

So for me today was just another day.  I cleaned out Julie's room.  I know have a big mound of stuff to take to the thift store.  I put together Tot School work for tomorrow.  And I went to the store and bought some milk.  I lead a very exciting life. 

The highlight of my day was finding my 1000 Gift journal that I had lost a couple of weeks ago.  Which it is now obvious that I fell off the wagon on listing gifts.  So I'm starting back up.  It's so neat to see what I had written this past year.

2012

warm blankets

iced coffee

the four of us piled in bed

pre-schoolers singing to Jesus

a bunny visits every once and a while in our backyard

facetime

Jax packed a bag to entertain himself while we were running errands and even packed Julie some toys!

hugs from Julie

Julie fell-and Jax comforted her

Jax catching his first fish!

garden fresh tomatoes

None of these were earth shattering.  But it was neat to read through them.  I ended up with #294 so I didn't fail completely.  My journal is back on my kitchen counter tonight.  Ready to count more gifts.

#295 Welcome 2013.

Julianne is 22 months!

She is up to a lot these days. 

She likes to do her hair with me.  Which really means that she makes her hair frizzy by pretend combing it.  Also, her dolly is subjected to such torture at times.  So cute that we are bonding while doing our hair though.

Whenever she is thinking hard, she will put her index finger up to her mouth and say, "Hum."  So funny.  She also shrugs her shoulders if she doesn't know an answer to a question.

She will say "Ah-uh" when she means yes.

She's taken to gymnastics on our couch and ottoman.  She will swing her body while hanging onto the ottoman and couch.  And yes, she falls at times.  But she is determined to do every single thing that Jax does.

Happy 22 months Julianne!

Tuesday 25

Yay!  Opening presents!

Wednesday 26

It was quiet.  So I checked on Julie and she had her dolly at the dining room table and she was getting food for it!  How cute is that?

Thursday 27

No picture.

Friday 28

I caught Julie on Jax's lap watching Barney!

Saturday 29

No picture.

Sunday 30

Jax drew this picture of an Angry Bird.  I absolutely LOVE how he wrote "Angry Birds" all by himself from memory!  That's pretty impressive.

Monday 1

No picture.

Personal

Read Life of the Beloved by Henri J. M. Nouwen (I finished it.)

School

Finish Letter Yy (Nope.)

Plan Letter Zz

Home Management

Enjoy Christmas (Sure did!)

Find homes for all the new toys (I have Jaxson's room clean and organized.  Just need to work on Julianne's.)

Now onto this week's goals:

Personal

Read The Anxious Christian by Rhett Smith

School

Finish Letter Yy

Plan Letter Zz

Home Management

Start journaling on my Project Life album 2012.  I'm behind 3 months and need to get this finished so I can start 2013!

Organize Julie's room

Take a load of stuff to the thrift store that's just sitting in my laundry room.

I'm linking to Money Saving Mom!