Homeschool, WHAT?

So Leggs, now 7, in the 1st grade, is being homeschooled.  After much debate, teachers meetings and various other things,  emails, failed attempts to set up meetings with the principal, Babe and I decided that if he was going to thrive in school he was going to have to come out of public school a while and have some one on one time and learn more and faster.  It's much easier when it's one on one vs 1 on 15.  Our issue, we changed their school last year and their new school (actually in our district) is a lot farther academically than the old one, they are 12 miles apart,  we had NO idea.  So he started behind and the transfer just made it even harder.  He's dealing well.   He likes it, but he also didn't have extra curricular activity anything because he had surgery again this year and we didn't know what the recovery time was going to be.  So while 1 is in band, 2 play basketball - he didn't have any team or anything.   But, we are hoping this year was his last surgery and that next year will start a whole new level of schooling for him!!!!

So right now I'm wrapped up with band,  basketball, homeschooling and working from home.  

Where is my coffee mug again?

All about the ramble 2015

What I'm doing for me in 2015!

I will continue to distribute Young Living Essential Oils and use them in my home and replace my medicine cabinet with them.

I will go back to the gym - I lost and gained back 20lbs - lazy is not an excuse!

I will take Mom every couple weeks and get our nails or hair done as its something we both enjoy and usually the only 1 on 1 time we get together.

I will play games and aggravate my children.

Church will become a larger priority for all of us. I will keep my commitment to Darling Diva and we will go every Sunday.

. . . .This is just the beginning list and I'm sure I'll add to it . . . .

Hello 2015!

     There are so many things that have come and gone since the last time I blogged.  I seriously had forgot all about this place.  I get so tied up with day to day things, ME - well the things that bring me joy sometimes get thrown out the window, run over by a semi and then get sent back to ME.

     So I am saying good bye to previous years, and hello the 2015 and going to hold on tight to it and hang on for the ride, cus if you follow my Facebook page, you know even that gets left behind sometimes and that my life is one hell of a roller coaster ride, depending on the day!

     I've worked, and stopped working out side the home - I've had 2 children move out, and 1 move back in.  My brother and I are on civil ground, we still have hell when it comes to dealing with the children though.  My amazing husband is now working 3 jobs, my parents are living with us.  My Mom had some major illnesses strike her and caused her to have a stroke and she now has vascular dementia and can't be left at home alone.  She came to live with us and then shortly after - so did my Dad.  My house is full - and I never thought Id say that considering how large it is, and we are even adding on another room and laundry room - and it seems the laundry room will now host as another bedroom as well!  Fun times right?  Right!

     I am going to just see where it all goes and live it all up in 2015.

 I am in sync with the fact that my life will always be hectic and that my family strives on random drama's that come into play.  So here we are.  There are currently 10 of us living in a 4 bedroom - soon (prayers!) 5.5 bedroom house.  Yes I am serious about putting "The Oldest" in the laundry room so that he isn't sleeping on the couch! - I hate having people sleep on the couch!  My brother was staying here for a while, but that didn't work out - so he went back to Dallas to live this girlfriend and I hope that works out for him this time - they seem to have some crazy connection - I hope they keep it!  

     Drama Rama dropped out of school and is living with some boyfriend about 30 miles from here - she ran away in 2014 and went to live with MULTIPLE people but ended up back with my brother who kicked her out - and now she's working on getting her camper live-in-able - she will be 18 in May and there is nothing I can do because when she ran away she took all legal documents out of the safe so I have no proof that I ever had any custody of her what so ever, because I never thought it would be necessary to file them with the county clerks office.  

     Peacekeeper is playing the trumpet in the 6th grade middle school band, and is AMAZING at it.  Darling Diva and Wild Thing start playing basketball this month.  We bought them a basketball goal for Christmas and they have been practicing everyday that the weather would allow - which up until a few days ago was possible - not sending my kids out when the windchill is in the negative numbers and we live in Texas, home of the notorious bi-polar Mother Nature.


2015 for me is going to be wrapped with more time!  

We are going to figure out a way to make all this work - I thought we'd have it down by  now - hell maybe it wont ever happen, and this will be a yearly thing of me trying to figure it out.  But we've made a pretty good start on it so far - basketball goal, pingpong table, fire pit in the back yard, the kids and I even started going to church on Sunday and Mom and I are going on a Walk to Emmaus next week!!  I am super stoked!