After Christmas Fun

This week has been busy! Bill started back to school on Monday, carrying 14 credits this term. He has one LONG day, Monday's--he leaves at 6AM and gets home at 10PM, however, the rest of the week is downhill, with classes ending the rest of the week by 12:30. Shawnna & Kids started back to Monday home school group and now my days off are Monday/Tuesday from the Credit Union, making it easy to get some things done around here with the kids, with homeschool and work for the dentist. The kids are doing great with their new home school program, provided by Central Linn School district...and Odyssey Ware. They do all their lessons online, the computer scores them, and we go over together anything they did not understand or did not get at least 85% on. We just added two more classes for the kids, and they are loving it. Ryan is taking Vietnam War History and Kristin chose a Science class.

We finished up the 12 days of Christmas on Tuesday....and although the tree came down last weekend, it was today (Saturday) that some of the other decorations came down. I just was not ready to take them down!

Today started around 8, with coffee, and getting ready for a memorial service. Kathy Nida's Mom, Anna, passed away on 12/23--and the memorial service was today. It was a nice service, and we got to see the whole family. It of course was not a long enough visit, but a visit none the less. We got a Brooklyn, Jason, Brandon & Olin fix...AND got to meet Zane. I am so glad a gal at work offered to trade Saturday's with me today...so that I could be there. As we were leaving the service, Charlie called, so we headed to Teen Challenge to pick him up.

Once home, we took down the village, the snowglobes (Tilley the Frog was so glad to be back on her shelf!), and the nativity scenes--and yes, the snowmen are still everywhere! My feeling is that snowmen are "WINTER" decorations...not CHRISTMAS decorations...so I do not feel bad about my big snowman on the porch, nor the two in the yard--or of course the three billion in the house! It's still WINTER!

Kristin & Charlie decided to be productive in the kitchen. Kristin made her gingerbread house, and Charlie made brownies.

Lindsay came over to see Robert, and she came home from work yesterday with a fever, and we could tell she was still not feeling well. We pray she feels better soon!We also pray that the rest of us do not get what she has!

We enjoyed a nice dinner of beef stroganoff--don't cook for seven too often....three of which are really big guys that eat a lot!! That's a lot of beef & a lot of "soupy" stuff for stroganoff!! Football was also a big thing here today, as was Wii Band Hero, and then a movie before everyone headed to bed.

Tomorrow is another full day...Church, homework, and then supper with Nate, Katie & Audrie, as we have not celebrated Christmas with them yet!

Hoping to head out camping this weekend...yahoo!!