who said I could not homeschool

I was so proud at that moment to see the 3 of them all sitting and not fighting and actually doing their summer work. Now I know they could do it could mom?

should be cleaning

With beautuful weaather here and we know summer is winding down we pretty much blew off alot of chores and enjoyed the weekend. Sat we went to a B-day party and had a blast and came home and just sat! Yes just sat around! Yesterday I had to work in the morning(and it was out 7th anniversary) and came home to my Dh telling me his parents were on their way up so he can take me to dinner! Yeah!!Its been so long. We then went over to a friends house for about an hour to sit around and chat with no kids:). So when we got back I should have started the pile of clothes or threw some kids in the shower but nope sat and sat and sat.

Fast forward to this morning.....smehow the pile of clothes got alot bigger and well I would be embarassed to have someone on my house right now. O have alot to do but today is one of those wonderful 45 minutes to sppech therapy which breaks up my day.

I have to get alot accomplished today becasue Tues I work and have some thereapist comming for Ryan..Weds speech again(sigh) then family night boy scout camp then Thur and Fri work and Sat a family reunion with some family members comming back from Ohio so have to turn cleaning mode on now!

Here is to a blessed day for you!!!

Debbie

My sweet Baby niece

I got to babysit my 5 month old niece yesterday..its been so long since I had a baby like that around here. The kids just loved her and they would not leave her alone. At first she was smiling away at all the attention and then by days end she was not a happy camper..( I kind of don't miss that) As I was preparing lunch and the baby was crying I thought I don't know how I did this years ago. My oldest two wasn't even here.

Well we enjoyed Having "Baby Riley" here and for those who are wondering yes it gave me the baby itch. Not to mention my husband too!

we have a swingset! Yeah!

A friend of ours from work wanted to get rid of this swingset since her kids were older. So we took it since we did not have a swingset for our kids. Mark threw some paint on it to give it some color and we bought some new swings to match. Nw we just have to get the tire swing up...Nice Job Mark! I wish I had the old picture of it. It was just a plain old faded wood color..I dint really like it.

calgon take me away............

that is how I feel lately. For starters this music program which I think is great for the kids is driving me crazy. I actually have to get up earlier for the music lessons than I did for school. I am thankful that it ends in two days though. I still fell bad for Kevin though. I drag him with me for Brittneys 8:40 lesson and his trumpet lesson does not start til 10. Well Brittney is done at 9:20 so after her lesson we leave and I leave Kevin(who is 13 BTW) there to wait for the 10 am lesson. He does not mind. But then hehas his orchestra lesson at 12 which is a hour gap and I told him he has to stay there because with gas prices I am not running back and forth..Iknow its sounds mean but he gets some quiet time to read and catches up on all his boy scout material.

So now this leaves me with all the stuff going on with Ryan...a little background...he was diagnosed with Aprixia(speech disorder) He will be 3 in Aug and says few words. So for the last year we have had a speech therapist come to the house once aweek and a developmental therapist come twice a week. Now on top of that I have him in wrap around service basically because with limited speech he throws alot of temper tantrums and well I guess he has some behavioral issues. So I now have a BSC comming to the house 2 times a week.(I call her my SuperNanny..she is awesome...)

So that is someone comming to my house 5 times aweek. It is very stressful esp because I extra clean when they are comming..Idont keep a dirty house but at the same time with my little ones things get pretty messy fast around here.

Now this week Ryan started his outpatient speech therapy at the Childrens Hospital of Pgh. Well we have been on the waiting list since March..yes March. So now I have to drive 45 minutes tot he North office for a 30 minute visit twice a week...they really suggest not bringing the other kids along so I have to have my parents up here now to watch them.

Needless to say that this is the 1st year I am looking forward to school starting..

* On a funny note...our first Bsc we had was a young lady who just got out of school and she was here for the first day for about 90 minutes..well she declined the case..we scared her off. I guess with 4 kids running around you and wanting to play with all your new,exciting toys you brought was a little too much.LOL

Hope everyone is having a great summer!

Kennywood 2008

We finally made it to Kennywood this Summer..the day we were supposed to go was rainy all day. The kids had a blast...! Of course its getting a little harder with all the height restrictions and Alyssa(6) can still ride in kiddieland and did not want to but wanted to ride the big rides which she was to small for some. Then Kevin and Brittney who are to big for kiddie land and rides all the big rides but they cant go off by themself and they did not like the ideal of hanging out in kiddleland...

tornado in western PA?

so over the weekend we got hit with some bad storms(well at least thats what the weather people all said) we did get some rain and and a little thunder/ligtning but I have seen it worst than that.

The one thing that standed out was I was at work on Sat night and we got a call that there was a tornado warning for our area. Of course that means there was one spotted. We do not get those often so the big storm fan I am took my 15 minute break to sit outside and watch this storm pass through. The rain came and came pretty hard too. The wind blew hard for about 5 minutes...like 2 or 3 big gusts but hardly no thunder or lightining. Now this was our 2nd big storm today so I was watching the clouds with all the other who were amused at the view of them and they were miving pretty fast..sort of freaky if you ask me and I of course had my camera and snapped som pix. Now there was no conformation of a tornado but the radar picked on up but they said it never touched the ground. Now I think that the picture I got def shows a small funnel but my DH says no its just a cloud...well I will still stick with a funnel cloud..what do you all think! Also I got he aftermath in the sky..what a beautiful sight..there was also a rainbow but I could not get it in enought time.