Friday, September 12, 2008

Been Awhile....

since I blogged. Well, now that school is back in session and we have soooo much going on, I guess I will try to get back in the habit. Speaking of habits, that is our main focus with Tyler right now - Habit Training. Of course, this is pretty common sense for just about everyone but me (guess that's the blonde! LOL). But, I've been reading a lot on the Charlotte Mason way of homeschooling and this is one of the foundations. If you're unfamiliar with Charlotte Mason and want to know more you can google it and find like a bazillion sites. This is the one I recommend though: http://www.simplycharlottemason.com/. Anyways in looking for some other resources, I found these GREAT little flip charts to help our little ones with habits.



The first green one is to help them clean their rooms (without having to go in there 500 times and tell them what to do next!). The yellow one is Zone Cleaning for the kiddos. You can assign them the Zone work and keep your house cleaned the easy way! If you're not familiar with Zone cleaning, check out Flylady at http://www.flylady.com/. She is fabulous by the way!! And lastly the blue one is for Laundry - start to finish! How awesome are these little boogers?? I'm most definitely ordering them and trying them out on precious, little, unsuspecting Tyler. I'll let ya know how it goes!

On the homeschooling front, Tyler got new glasses with a new Rx and is doing MUCH better! It's actually helping with focus as well. He was reading like a champ yesterday and today! I was so proud! I just love to brag about him. Mainly because he really ticked me off this evening, but that's another story better left untold. We are reading a chapter every night in Charlotte's Web. It's been fun for me to revisit that classic and Tyler has enjoyed it as well.

On to the next topic at hand, if you haven't aleady heard, I am opening a Home Daycare. I am totally excited about it!! I already have a couple kiddos lined up and hope to fill the rest of the openings by the time I open. The projected date (as long as noting goes wrong with inspection) is October 6th. It will be called TaterBugz after our Taylor. Surprisingly Tyler is excited as well. He wants to be the "Big Helper" and I'm sure he'll be a good one. Wish me luck is this little endeavor and PRAY for us!! More info coming soon, I'm sure! Also, if you know of any kiddos that need care, send them my way!

And last, but most certainly not least, my BomBom is battling Breast Cancer for the 3rd time. We just recently found out that is has manifested in her lungs (since she doesn't have any breast left from the last 2 times). It is Stage 4, but they are hopefull. She began chemo Monday and up until Tuesday night she was doing well. But, the chemo got the best of her and is making her violently ill. She was admitted to the hospital this morning. Prayers have went up for her and I know without a doubt she will have healing. God's hand is on her now. We give Him thanks for the the mighty work He is doing in her. I pray for God's will to be done and that's of course what I want more than anything. I just hope His will includes her sticking around on Earth a little longer for that healing! Is there anything wrong with that? I love my BomBom (which is my Grandma by the way - my Mom's mom) and I just don't want to lose her, but I also don't want to see her suffer either. The other woman that needs prayer is my Aunt Cheryl. She's doing everything in her power to care for her the best she can. Bless her heart though, she has health problems of her own. I pray that God gives her the strength she needs, the patience Grandma needs and the wisdom to ask for help. I've added a couple pics of my BomBom. The first is her and Canaan. And the other is her with some of her Great Grandchildren. Starting on the left with my son Tyler, Stephanie's son Cody and then Kyle, and then far right Amanda's son Davin.

These next one is the whole McCracken Family. And lastly starting at top left my baby sister, Melissa, then me, then bottom my middle sister Stephanie, BomBom and my Momma, Cherie.
Well, I'm going to sign off for now. My time is always limited right now. Canaan thinks he needs my upper half every 2 hours!

Blessings in Christ!
Jenn