A new school year about to begin!!

Well here it is, August 25th and some one rude reminded me that Christmas is 4 months away. Yuck!! I don't even want to hear about Christmas until AFTER my husband's birthday in early November. Pet peeve of mine

Anyways, school is about to start. It starts Sept 1 for Sam and Nichole and the 17th for Nathan. Why the delay with Nathan you ask? I'm homeschooling him and I haven't gotten all his supplies ordered and the ones I do have ordered are on backorder until about that time. But I've got him writing a report on a subject for one of his chapters in Social Studies, so I am doing something.

Sam is excited to go back to school. This year he gets to wear an I.D. and play the cello. Nichole just wants something to do. She will be a junior this year and she can't wait. I'm glad to see some of my kids excited about school, I just wish Nathan was more into it. Maybe he will as we start this new adventure in our lives. And I hope it works out for the better. I don't want Nathan going through what he went through last year ever again and if this is the way we teach him, then so be it. I can do this, I know I can and I will succeed!!!!!!!!!!!!

The above picture is what I think I will use for Christmas pictures (unless a better one is taken at my nephew's wedding on Saturday.) this year. I just wish that the boys were actually smiling with teeth, not this crap that they are pulling. Oh well, I tried. I also got to use Nichole's fancy camera. It's cool. I'm beginning to think that I need one. Nah, I'll just borrow hers when I want "nice" pictures.

Hugs
Kelly

Nichole...my artist

This is my daughter, Nichole and she was at her aunt's house painting for a charity project in Door County. I'm really proud of what she has accomplished in the few years that she has been concentrating on art and photography. One of her pictures she took for a class this past year is being shown at the State Fair in the Expo Hall. She didn't win a thing for the picture, but I'm proud none-the-less.

Thought I would share her in "action", rather than just tell you about it.

Kelly

August already??

I cannot believe that it's August already. Where in the world did the summer go? I for one, will be happy to see the upper 80's and lower 90's leave and take the darn humidity with it. Today is beautiful, a little cloudy, but temps are nice and humidity is lower. My type of weather.

The State Fair has started and my daughter Nichole is working for the first time at the fair. I'm not sure what she's doing but when she came home last night, she went straight to bed and I talked a little to her this morning and she was still tired (and a bit sunburned). I haven't heard from her yet today so I assume that all is well. I cannot believe my kid is old enough to earn her own paycheck.

I also registered 2 out of 3 kids for school. They suck you dry of money I tell ya. Now all they have to have done is their pictures and get their schedules and that's it. School starts Sept 1, so does Nathan's homeschooling. I'm just glad we didn't have to put the registration fees on a credit card this year. It's sucky when we have to do that.

I've lost my stitching mojo. I'm not sure where it went or when it went but it's gone. I'm tempted to sell my stitching patterns but I know better. It will be back (I hope!) So for right now, I'm concentrating on school and reading fun books in my spare time. I also hope to take Christmas card pictures with Nichole's very expensive camera that I bought her. I'll post those pictures when I take them. It won't be anytime real soon, as I promised Nichole that we would do them AFTER she was done with the fair (August 15th).

Have to run and stop a fight in progress.
Hugs
Kelly

I'm still here. It's been hot and yucky out for the last week or so, so I've been stitching away at a exchange project and nope I cannot show you until she's received it. But it's a BlackBird Designs stocking that I stitched, boy do those stitch up fast!! I just might have to do another one for myself before too long.

School is going well. I hate Ethics class. I can't wait until it's over but my other class is fun. I get to put my computer knowledge to work finally so it's fun. I just wish Ethics was fun, don't get me wrong it's informative, but a bit boring and such. I'm trying my best and I guess that's all I can ask for these days.

Everyone is doing well. The kids just got back from Door County where they had a blast! And some how I got pink eye while they were gone and it's not going away!! If it doesn't go away soon, I'll have to visit my doctor (oh goodie! NOT!)

Otherwise, everything is good. Same ole stuff different day. I better run as Sam wants the computer to play games on again. Typical 10 year old if you ask me.

Talk to ya soon
Hugs
Kelly

Starting school....

I thought this would be easy. Take a couple of classes in my "spare" time and have no worries. WELL WELL, let me tell ya, it's not easy. I found that there is a lot of required reading a bunch of weekly papers due and so on. I don't know why I thought this was going to be easy. I need to get a schedule of things to get done by my kids and let them know that after a certain time in the day the computer is mine. Right now I'm taking an Ethics class and a Information in the Online age class and I'm finding that the Ethics class is not as easy as it seems and the other general class is just stuff I know but putting it to use.

As far as the rest of the house is concerned, 2 of my kids are going on a 7 day vacation with their aunt and I'll have one of the kids home with DH and myself. Then all three are going to a different aunt's house for about 5 days on a farm, so DH and I will actually have the house to ourselves, if all works out the way it's planned.

The weather here in Wisconsin has been a little hot and humid but now a cool front went through and the weather is cooler than normal with little or no humidity. I like this weather, it's perfect.

Hope you all have a good week and I'll check in when I can. Hopefully with a stitchy update.

Hugs
Kelly

old pictures...

While scanning some old pictures onto a SD card recently, I came across a couple of pictures I want to share with you all. The top picture is a picture of my grandfather holding his "great" one, my son, Sam when he was almost 2 months old. Sadly, my grandfather passed away about a week after this picture was taken and we think this is the last known picture of my grandfather alive. I'm so grateful that he got to see Sam and hold him (even if his health was failing)

The second picture is of my boys when they were 4 and 1, in our old house. My DH had Nathan climb the tree and I was outside with Sam and DH put Sam in the tree with Nathan and I got a bunch of cute pictures of them. But this is my favorite and I have NO clue what Sam is laughing at.

Thought I would share
Hugs
Kelly

Framed piece + Sam

Here is my framed piece of a Black Bird Design (I cannot remember which leaflet but it is still in circulation I believe) that I stitched a while ago and just now had the money to get it framed. Sam (my now 5th grader) is holding it.