some pics of the kids and house

Casey is 14 (15 next month) Emily is 10, Dylan is 8 (9 next month), Austin is 7, Nodin is 2 . My wonderful kids!

We are in!

Ok So we are all moved in finally. My and the kids did it all week long. Jeff had to work late plus he was gone for the night Thursday. So he is over to the other place cleaning and getting it ready to hand the keys back over.

I love this place but I dont love the bugs. We are just not used to all these because in Maine they stay outside most of the time. So if any one has an organic approach to bugs please let me know. Nodin kepps saying "love my farm house" It is just so freaken cute.

The kids are loveing there Mauy thi! Its the ultimate fighting that they have on tv. Its not as bad as I thought it would be. For the younger ones its more excersing and for Casey and Jeff it thats too but beeing taught how to do mixed martial arts.

I want to ask any one and everyone to please say a prayer for a little boy we know who has cancer and is fighting very hard. His name is DAnte and he is 2. So please keep hime and his family in your thoughts.

The perfect house for us.

O.K. So we found our perfect house. It is a farm house on 5 acres and a 36 acre tree farm acrost the street. We will be moving in in two weeks. I am so exsited. This is the house we have always wanted. There are so mant things to do.
It is 94 years young. In great shape. We plan to get chickens, a goat or two, maybe a milking cow.
We need to clean out were the pastures used to be. They are so overgrown. I also want to learn to keep bees.



I will post pics soon.

Ghosting it forward

This has been fun to think of ideas on ways to do this. I feel it is so important to get kids to learn to do nice things.(Plus honestly there are many adult who have forgotten how to do nice things ;) ) It really only takes a few minutes. Everyone has a few extra minutes a day. Here are a few ideas

1. give a treat to a friend or neighbor
2. Give a nice note to a coworker with out being caught ;)
3. Give a treat to any drive through you go through.
4. Send a nice email.
5. Go help a stranger with there bags at the shopping center.
6. send cards to all the people you know.
7. Pick up the piece of trash you would normally walk over.
8. Tell someone to "have a great day!"
9. Call a family member and tell them how important they are to you and why.
10. Open a door for the next person.


So can you think of any other ones? We want to as a family touch 100 different pepole so wish us luck :)

Please put the link on your blog so we can get as many pepole helping as we can !

This is a really great idea!

http://www.ghostingitforward.blogspot.com/


This is a great idea. We will be doing this with our family. There trully isnt enough good dees in this world so lets change it! :)

What a week.

So this past week was just plain crap! My computer was down and I could feel all my home work pilling up! ugg! Wonderful pms all week. So my house ALMOST fell apart!LOl. But that is all behind us. Jeff is now a local driver so we are able to go visit him during the day.
I have yet to call the ywca about some classes for the kids. Unschooling is going great. It is just amazing the things kids learn whe they are not forced! Dylan and Austin have learned about making bow and arrows. They did a great job on them too. Emily is reading like never before. She is into ghosts and trying to rap her mind around the idea of them. We did get a coupld workbook for them that they wanted. I think they will be somthing that might come out form time to time. I did find out that there are a few peopl in the sarounding towns that are doing the same aproach to homeschool. i just trully believe that if you just let them be then they will come to you whne they are ready. Like math and Dylan . He is pretty good at it and he came to me this mouring and said look what I did. He did 2 whole pages by himslef. This is a child who hated traditional school because he is not a fast writer. He has lots of agsiety when it comes to "school work" I have not aske dhim to do a single thing that would even look like school work. But has read a few pages in a differnet book that he asked for. Thats my boy!

So unschooling is going great!

So do I want another baby? I just cant seem to let this go....