This will probably be the last post I write here. It will stay up until I have fully moved over and am ready to take this site down.

I have been contemplating closing the server and moving over to either wordpress website itself, or blogger. I bought a huge server due to how many pictures I had posted, but now those are all over on snapfish. The only thing still on this website is just this blog and the family blog.  I might look into it in the next couple of months. The $60 I save a month can go to something more useful, like …. oh I have no clue, bills….

I think I just might do that. And anyone interested in still reading me, I would require emails from you so I could invite you to my blog. I honestly think I like the idea of moving it all to blogger. I do wish blogger would hurry up and make an app for the iPhone. Wordpress has one, but blogger doesn’t.

I am rambling. But that is ok. I think this weekend I am going to work on moving everything over. I do need to learn to make blogger designs thou, I do hate the designs they have…

Well, not much else to write about. Please ignore the pity party post. Not a funk, just, how I am honestly feeling right now.

The kids are well into school.

The house is slowly getting unsummered.

Fall weather is approaching.

And my house is in gear up mode. (another entry, another time)

School is going rather well. Lets get the kids part of this entry over with:

Dokota – besides health (which is the only class that requires all homework to be done digitally) he is sitting with very high As and Bs. His health is still at an F, but I have worked out him being able to do most of the work at school, at least until I can find my office disk to install office onto the husband’s computer. My computer is still down, and the husband’s does not have the required software. Hoping that F leaves soon.

Kauchana – is sitting with As and Bs again! And with the help of her special ed teacher, she is catching missing assignments that Miss Kauchana is telling me not to worry about…. hmmmm……. Spent a few minutes after school yesterday walking Kauchana around getting signatures about said missing assignments. Only missing one teacher, that we couldn’t find. Special ed teacher said she will email me results tomorrow if daughter must spend the afternoon working on said assignments, of if she is truly done and can come home.

I love it when teachers work with me!

Xavier – is doing rather well. Thou his homework is rather interesting… They get a homework packet on Tuesdays, which is due the following Tuesday… They have a pre-spelling test on Monday. Odd. But he is doing good.

Derric – is being introduced to spelling words. I am thankful he is getting lots of help in this area, mostly since he will not work for me. But we trudge through his homework also. He gets his on Thursday, due on Wednesday of the next week. Again, odd…

The housing is being unsummered. Meaning I am getting things back to organized and less chaotic. My dryer was worked on Tuesday, so hopefully I can start doing more than one load of laundry a week… I kinda like at least one a day, please! Prefer two a day!!. Reorganized the boys’ bedroom, still have a bit of fine tuning to do there, but mostly done. Working on the office right now. Need to get the elliptical set up for sale. Finish finding places for all the misc. stuff, and get two of the three bookshelves from my room into the office to make room for the new bed. Have a major amount of reorg. to do in my room too. Need to get the waterbed taken down very soon… Have two weeks to get it down and out. Too much to do in a very short amount of time. I get to sleep on an air mattress until the new bed gets here.

Kevin and I got our iPhones. Love them. I still have my iPod Touch, it holds all my music, movies, and books. Also my games. I moved all internet based apps to the iPhone. Feels off carrying both around. Need a new purse/bag! Might look into making one soon.

Well, it is about time to start packing bookbags and Derric’s lunch for school. Then home again, home again, to clean/organize an office. Also have laundry to do… Of the fun.

Blue Black Bugs Blood

Going to bed now, have fun

Actually, the blog has gone mobile.

I just added the Mobile Plug-in, which allows me to view the website, edit, and comment all on a mobile device. So any of my bloggy friends that use mobile devices, let me know if my site is not viewable in mobile format, and I can see about getting it added.

In other news, not much has been going on besides attitudes and fights. But that is all for another entry.

For this entry, I want to just write about something I have noticed Derric doing lately. …

See, Derric will pull at his finger nails until one splits, and he can pull it up. Like a partially cut off nail. He than, when flustered, will flick the loose nail next to his ear.

Example.

Kauchana is collecting boxes for her big project, a Museum of Me. She collected a good sized box and Derric kept wanting to climb in and play in it. I told him no, but he wouldn’t stop, so I snapped at him. Mostly because he hasn’t been listening all day, and partly because I was doing other things, and maneuvering around the other kids. So I snapped and told him to stop.

He backed off and started flicking his loose nail. He stayed there for a few minutes just listening to his nail flick.

He has been doing this a lot lately. I tend to cut the loose nail once I see it, and he never liked that. Sometimes he would come up to me to have me cut a nail, but mostly he keeps them loose and flicks them.

He has also started to chew really bad. He chewed a bit during the winter last year, actually chewing the zipper from his winter jacket. So his sensory therapist got him a chew tube. Once they came in, he had stopped chewing as much and wasn’t interested in the chew tubes. The one that came home with him last year got put away and forgotten. A week before school, while I was cleaning and reorganizing things, he had found it and started chewing it. It has gone to school with him pretty much everyday for the past three weeks. We have two, both were at school, until Open House, then they both came home for some reason. One got missed place, so we are back down to one, and that is getting worn out. They were supposed to be good for several months of chewing, and in one month, he has it almost ready to break.

I am also trying to figure out how to get him to do his homework and still fit in a nap. Today he got his first homework packet. Complete with what worksheet to do on what day.

I had him sit down and work on writing his spelling words. He kept whining and writing all over the place. He insisted that the letter “t” looked like a 6 with a line through it. He knows that is not how the letters are written, but he wouldn’t write them correctly. His fussing got really bad that I just stopped and put him down for a nap. He fussed long enough for me to dial a friend and have her pick up. He was out fast. And he slept long and hard. He slept a good hour and forty-five minutes. I know that if I had him nap before doing his homework, I would probably get a little more work from him, but normally, by the time he wakes up, it is supper time, then bed routine time…

He is still very much in need of his naps. I honestly wonder if he will ever get out of nap time. Xavier was the longest to nap, but by mid Kindergarten, he was out of them.. And here Derric is, napping all the way to first grade. And getting this kid to learn to spell… Oh man this will be interesting! I know he can do it, but I just don’t think I can.

Well, this has rambled long enough. Think I will just call it a day. I need supper myself and I need to get little man to bed. But first, reading time.

My iPhone has not arrived yet, which I knew it wouldn’t, but my computer is slowly dieing even more. I can not afford to take it in to get worked on right now, and I have no clue how much longer it will hold out. About all I can do is get on line now, I can work a little with my office programs, but it requires me to save after every edit because you never know when it will crash. There is no form of copy and paste still, which makes some matters really annoying.  It would be nice to have the iPhone so I can keep better tabs on the kids and school.

I have gotten myself into a decent routine, I get up with the husband, make him breakfast, and pack his bag. He heads to work, and I get about 10 minutes of quiet before Derric is up. I spend about 5 mins hold and cuddling him before I need to get the kids up. Getting them up an hour and a half before school starts is working much better than letting them sleep that extra 30 minutes. They are more awake when we head to the schools.

After walking the kids to school, and getting Derric situated with his aid in the morning, I come home, get myself a small breakfast, then curl up in bed with a good movie and my crocheting. No I will not say what it is… it be a surprise for my Tori in Az!! So ha!

By the time the movie is over (with many stops for walking around and lunch), it is time to head to the schools and get the kids.

We come home and I call them each one at a time for me to look through homework folders/agendas. I ask about their days (and much to teacher’s amusements) leave notes in their agendas. As long as they can give me a good run down of classes/days, they get a silly face and sticker. By collecting these, they get a star on a chart, which entitles them to 15mins of any form of electronic play over the weekend. (And to verify, I have daily emails from teachers!!! So they can’t lie to me)

I have some more indepth writing to do, but right now I need to get dressed and start my coffee.. The morning is going by while I am curled up at my computer. I will write more, much more, later… Probably tomorrow.

Week 36: Contemplative

Pondering Xavier

I decided to have some fun with the camera the other day, I took it along when I picked the kids up from school. The kids were playing around and I just took pictures, not even looking through the camera, just pointing in a general direction and snapping the shot. Half the time I didn’t get a good picture, and most of the ones of Xavier he kept posing for me. I finally caught him when he wasn’t looking at the camera and it turned out great.

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