Joy, joy, joy...

I haven't written in a couple of days because frankly to say its been busy here would be an understatement. I don't think I've mentioned this yet, but we found out very late last week that John's class has been rescheduled to January, leave it up to the army to not send out a letter on that small item of interest. Anyway. It changed our entire line of thinking so the wheels were set in motion last weekend.

We first thought about taking a nice vacation (John could really use one and us too!). But then we thought about everything we're going to have to pay for in the next few weeks and that seemed to be stretching it a bit too much. So...we decided to finally tackle something I've been wanting to do since we moved into the house, the garage! YEAH! We went and bought four cabinets and a pegboard with a light on Tuesday. John could hardly wait for the weekend so he took off Thursday and we started building. One cabinet was complete on Thursday, one Friday and we did two Saturday after spending the morning in Edgefield. So today we get to finish the biggest cabinet and start organizing. I'll post a pic when we finish; I know Mom wants to see a pic even if no one else is interested. :)

I have to tell you Chloe's reading has really come a long way. We were at the doctor's office yesterday and she was reading next to me, "Mom, is this word 'suggested' (she said it properly)?" "Yes, it is. Very good Chloe." I said it so calmly but inside I was jumping for joy. This means she too will be ready to start her first grade work in January like Jesse. I'm glad too because she has been driving me nuts about starting spelling. I think she just wants to get onto spellingcity.com. LOL

I finally started working on Story of the World II. I have searched the library catalog and now have a list of the "extra history reading" for half of the chapters. The girls thought I looked funny because I had my laptop in a chair beside me using the internet on John's computer. I'm sure I looked quite busy! lol I'm hoping to finish the last half today or tomorrow and start working on the chapter notes. For those who don't know, I read the chapters and review the test and make "review notes" for Jesse to review everyday to prepare for a test. I originally thought I would do this for the first two books and then let her do her own notes for the last two books. We take about a year and a half to complete a book so I think by then she'll be fully capable of completing that task on her own. We'll see.