What's Been Going On.....

This week I am headed into my first round of finals: Foundations of Math A, U.S. Government A, and English 12 A. I also have a paper to write for English this week, which I'm not too thrilled about that! After that I will be starting the second round of Math, U.S. Government, and English.

Mom is back in school and student teaching, so Jordann and Whitney are home with me all day Tuesday's and Thursday's. That is always fun! Jordann is usually pretty quite, until she is done with school then she decides that being goofy is the best way to irritate me and she know that it works! Whitney likes to test my patients when we do her science....always looking at me for the answers. Her favorite saying is to come up to me and say "I'm bored." Of course if you mention dinner or chores both her and Jordann are a mile away!

Megan is FINALLY back in school. She had an extra month off from school and she thought it was pretty funny to annoy us. Now, the tables are turned and we are laughing at her because she is in school, too! She is currently majoring in becoming a history teacher.

Last Friday we took Demon to the park and let's just say I don't think he will be going any time soon! :) He decided to go for a swim in the pond and drag us through the park so he could see everything. Demon also thought the rose bushes at the park were his and I could tell he was trying to figure how to uproot them! We had to drive home with a wet dog and he wanted to sit on my lap! I tried to get him on Whitney's but neither of them were having any of it. And you would think that this outing would wear him out....ha! NOT! When he came home he was as wild as ever. I think that darn dog is ADD.

That Darn Dog

This week Demon decided to dig himself out of the yard so he could chase down the squirrel that has been teasing him in the tree behind the fence. We were lucky that somebody who recognized him came to the door. But who had to answer the door? Yeah, that was me.....nothing like being embarrassed when he just gives you the blues eyes and the look is saying "what?". So now I am dog sitting while doing my schoolwork. Fun!

Back to School

It's hard to believe that this is my second week back in school! The summer seemed to breeze by. The summer was not what anyone was expecting. We spent a lot of our time in the hospital with my grandfather who fell ill during the summer. The interesting thing is that when somebody is very sick you get to meet family members who you have never seen or don't remember seeing. One family member in particular was getting to meet my Great Uncle Fred. Uncle Fred was fun to be around because he giggles all the time! If you ask him where he wants to sit he will giggle and say "yeah"! He also says that he is going to by himself a truck so he can drive. While he was here, he locked himself in a closet (at 3 AM) and screamed "Help, somebody get me out of here." The next day nobody was allowing him to take a nap!

On top of being in the hospitals constantly over the summer, I also volunteered at another hospital and put together nursing orientation notebooks, filed and made charts in the medical records office, and the most exciting thing was being able to meet elderly and younger people who just need somebody to talk to.

Last week I started my senior year of high school! My first three classes for the next 9 weeks will be : English 12 A, U.S. Government A, and Basic Math A. So far it isn't too bad. Although I did have to read Beowulf my first week of English. I don't know why I'm complaining considering I received a 96% on the final test. For Government I studied how to require a U.S. citizenship. For math I was working on place value.

This week I will be working on addition for math, the Constitution and Declaration of Independence for Government, and Chaucer and Canterbury Tales for English. Should be fun!

Happy Birthday.......

Today is Mom's 41st birthday! She does not like to celebrate her birthday because she believes she is still 29!! Today she is planning on making a German Chocolate Cake, the same one that her grandmother always had in her house. When she was looking for the recipe she found that it was on the Baker's German Chocolate box! I guess it's not a top secret recipe!

Thanks Mom for:

• not sending us to school and taking our education into your hands
• always willing to talk even when its something as weird as where a staple remover is
• teaching me how to cook
• cleaning up after I cook when everybody runs off the other direction.....especially the noodle pan!
  
• not making me share a room with Megan! (no offense Megan!)
• teaching Megan and I how to drive even though there were times you probably thought you were going to have a heart attack!
  

Happy birthday Mom!

Fun in the Sun

Megan, Jordann, & Whitney enjoying the very rare warm days of summer, while I secretly take video of them.....hehehehehe!!!!

Waffles & Hobbs

There has been a lot going on this summer, even though there are days when I feel like the days are dragging and wondering if the clocks on the wall are actually working at all. Most of my days, however, seem to be flying by and I know that school is starting in August. I know that it will come sooner than I want!!!

A couple of weeks ago mom made Gingerbread Waffles. There were great....and simple! We even took photos of the delicious waffles. Once the pictures were taken they were devoured.

The batter:


The waffles:



Meanwhile, Megan's cat, Hobbs is going to be causing lots of problems for the plants and vegetables we are attempting to grow. Today I caught him laying on top of the cups we planted outside.




Gingerbread Waffles Recipe:

Start with a waffle mix and reduce liquid to 1 Cup. Add 1/2 Cup molasses, 1 teaspoon ground ginger, 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves, and 4 Tablespoons brown sugar.

Wings

Over the past couple of days I picked up a book titled "Wings." This book was not something that I would probably read, except Megan and Mom seemed to enjoy it a lot. So, I wanted to see what it was about....and if it really was that good.

Wings was about a girl named Laurel. The book follows Laurel as she moves to a different community and making new friends. Laurel had been homeschooling her whole life and wants to continue but her mom does not feel she can continue educating her and give her a good education. Laurel meets David and together they spend lots of time together. When something appears to be growing out of her back she only tells David.

This book is somewhat similar to the Twilight series. Unlike Bella in Twilight, Laurel has a bit of an attitude. I will probably not read this book again, but this is a story that can be remembered for a long time.