Crazily, I also have now joined facebook. Why you ask? I don't know. It seems my friends have all joined facebook, but know nothing about blogspot. Why does there have to be so many of these pages for people to join? Jeesh.

I just haven't had much to say lately. Odd for me, eh? My house is a mess, I'm tired, and I'm trying super hard to not get Craig's cold. Zycam so far seems to be my new best friend. The kids and I have all been taking it. If he would listen to his brilliantly smart wife, and take it when he starts to get sick, he to, would be enjoying the benefits of being able to breathe and not have "yuck" come out of his nose. But no.....sometimes those boys just don't listen to us! =) He sure is cute though, so I'll keep him.

I have no idea how I got that picture on there, but hey, look, it's a picture!!

How can my daughter be so smart, yet lack so much common sense?
Why won't my son learn to use the potty?
Why do I always talk to myself in the car?
Why am I feeding all the neighborhood cats?
What is Koben's obsession with fruit snacks?
Will my house ever be spotless?
Where do all the fruit flies go when you get rid of the spoiled fruit?
Will I ever go to Europe?
Will Chloe ever learn to clean her own room?
Will I ever have anything super fascinating to say?


Chloe's word list for this week.

Pundit-A learned lesson
Skein-A length of yarn or thread wound loosely.
Skulk-To lie in hiding or to creep about
Personification-Attribution of human qualities to inanimate objects
Dyslexia-Difficulty in learning causing a person to have trouble reading
Palindrome-Word, phrase or sentence that reads the same backward to forward
Doily-Small ornamental mat of lace or linen
Querulous-Grumbling, argumentative
Blatherskite-Someone talking nonsense
Smorgasbord-Buffet featuring various dishes
Baksheesh- A bribe
Placebo-Something which often makes the ill feel beter but has no medical value
Dreary- Gloomy, dismal
Tarry- To wait
Indolent-Lazy

I thought about putting together a story using all these words, for you reading pleasure, but I've been gardening and doing laundry, and checking email for the last hour or so, and I am just really too tired for that much brain power. Maybe next week.

I haven't had a comment in so long, I think I am the only one that is reading this! Oh well, I am perfectly ok with that, seeing as how I use this as a journal anyway. I decided last week that I am going to start writing a book. Nothing fancy. Non-fiction. Sort of an auto biographical, which shouldn't be too exciting, seeing as how my life is nothing out of the ordinary. I'd like to journal Koben's life a little though. The journey we have had until now. We will see how it goes. Not much else to report at the moment. Will report more later!

Update

This is the first day I have had off since last Tuesday. We were preparing for the bridal show in Salem last weekend, so I was working 12-14 hour shifts, and really, was not home. So, today, I am a slug, doing laundry and sitting, since I have basically been on my feet for seven days. My legs and ankles were pretty swollen, and my body ached like I had run a marathon. We load a 17 foot U-haul for the bridal show, stuffed full. I would say it went well, and will know more as people come in, in the upcoming weeks. The next bridal show is the weekend after New Years.

Can you believe it is October? I can't.

Craig has been quiet at work lately. On Saturday, he and our brother in-law hauled all the rest of our garage sale items that never sold into Canby to Kiwanis. Finally we can walk in the garage. Hopefully now that things have quieted down a bit, he can finish the moulding in the house.

Chloe has aced her vocab and spelling the last two weeks. I can hardly believe it. I am very impressed. Yesterday she was received an award for good citizen month at school. It was a surprise. Mom, dad, and I attended the assembly. It was really cute. My father can't believe how grown up she is. I got her school pictures back today, they look awesome. I had her hair cut a couple weeks ago, into a layered bob, and all her curls came back. I haven't seen them since she was three years old, when I cut her curls off. I thought that was interesting. Here I thought she would have a hair do she could take care of herself. Now she wakes up with a mess of crazy curls in the morning, but, it doesn't take nearly as long as it did when it was long. And, I don't have long strands of hair all over the house.

Chloe's words for next week. ( Since they don't have school the rest of this week due to conferences.)
Vitriolic
Pretentious
Divisive
Counterfeit
Curmudgeon
Perspiration
Fallacious
Mediocre
Fiasco
Catalogue
Malodorous
Plenipotentiary
Aggravate
Fatigue
Derelict

Crazy, huh?

Koben is learning is numbers and letters very well. I am so proud of him. I came home last night, exhausted, and he was sitting on the floor, with a game/toy chloe had when she was little. It is Winnie the Pooh, and it has all the letters in the alphabet, and on one side, numbers on buttons that are different shapes. There is a screen, that shows the number, or letter, and pooh asks you to find the letter or the number. Dang if the boy didn't know all of them, and he repeats them as he pushes them. I was blown away. I had been working with him and that toy for quite awhile, and he just didn't seem to be getting it at all. In preschool they have been working on matching up colors, and he mastered that long ago, even if he can't tell you what the colors are. So, I'm thinking that he is matching the letters up with what he sees on the screen. Craig and I were very impressed. If we just give him the tools, and leave him alone, he actually knows a lot. But, the teachers at school tend to push him, and I think, expect a lot for him right now, so he doesn't do it for them. He goes thru stages where it doesn't look like he is "getting" something, then if you drop it for awhile, he will come to you, and show you that he knows it perfectly. He's so cute.