Two weeks?

How has it been two weeks since the last time I blogged?  Crazy.  Life has been busy here.  Some good busy (lots of Pampered Chef business) and some not-so-good busy (school?  I'm supposed to be educating my kids??). 

   

Abigail's birthday has come and gone.  My poor friends.  I was a wreck at church, and we had a potluck dinner for Pastor Appreciation.  I spent the whole time crying or trying not to cry.  The good thing is that a couple of years ago, I wasn't good enough friends with these ladies to stick around during a time like that.  And this year I felt comfortable enough with them to let them see what I was going through.  So that's good. 

   

Election Day was this week.  I dutifully brought my kids with me; Patience fell down in the parking lot and gashed her knee.  SIGH.  I also met one of the ladies that was elected to the school committee.  She is a Democrat, but said she is very supportive of homeschooling.  I told her that I was keeping her name & number, and that if I had any problem with the school system, I was calling HER. LOL 

   

This week, we visited a planetarium.  Very interesting.  My neck hurts from looking up.  The kids had a good time.  It was pouring rain that day.  Daddy was with us, so we went out for lunch and ran a few errands. 

   

Yesterday was the girls' Home Ec class--they made stamped gift tags.  Very cute.  Eli got to run around outside.  We're having a bit of Indian Summer--gorgeous weather in the mid-60's, sunshine...just glorious. 

   

Two weeks ago we went to see IMAX: Lewis and Clark--so interesting!  The kids loved it.  Eli asked if the story was "real".  I was like, um, YEAH, it's Lewis and Clark!  So he explained that what he meant was, did everything happen exactly like they showed?  I had to explain that the men kept journals, and the movie was based on those.  Whew--for a minute there I thought he hadn't know that Lewis and Clark were real! 

   

My sister is in Texas now!  She and her family moved last week from Toronto.  I'm glad she's there safe & soud. 

   

And that's about it.  I'm trying to stay on top of the housework (sometimes you could play "king of the mountain" with the laundry!) and get some schooling done.  I still have seven more PC shows this month.  Plus Thanksgiving.  All I have to do is seal my Christmas cards, and they're ready to be mailed out.  I'm almost done Christmas shopping, too.  Also exhausted...did I mention exhausted?