Grow-A-Frog & an "A Yea Day"!

Here is a picture of our Grow-A-Frog, As you can see he has his back legs now. He has just gotten in his front legs, They are still very small hard to see in the picture. This has been very cool to watch him grow!

I had one of those moments yesterday..... Kelly & her father were watching a tv show about water and diving. On the show they were talking about how the lungs of a diver when they come up to fast from the bottom can get really sick. Out of nowhere Kelly says, We learned about that! She remembered!!!!!!! I went over and kissed her. It was great to finally here her tell back at another time something she actually learned from me! Yea!

Moaning & Groaning.....

I have really had a tough week!
1)I knew homeschooling was going to be tough once my son (He is in public school) was out for the summer - Well it has been like pulling teeth to get Kelly to sit down for lessons, I decided about mid-week to just scrap this week and start next fresh....
2)I have been getting so much flax from my husband &kids about the dog breeding business latley! Right now we have a ton of puppies who are not sleeping very well, So it is keeping them up, then the adult dogs are barking too much, the puppies are bitting at their feet when they walk ect. ect.... My husband blew a gasket this morning - He littereally was acting like a huge baby, He was up on the couch jumping around & screaming "I can't go to work....". I hold my tounge because I know dog breeding isn't the easiest job most people think it is - I haven't been able to take a family vacation is years and it looks like I will not be able to for a number more years : ( It is alot for my family to have to put up with but it allows me to be home and make good money. My husbands painting business has been very spotty lately he took most of April & May off - So I really can't belive when he is the most vocal about the dogs since if we didn't have this money we would be up a river!
3)Then the fire behind our house - It was far enough away but still very close that we had top worry about evacuating. Now that was a stressful night!
4)My cat who is almost as old as my son - say about 16 years old is acting not well at all. I hope it passes because he was looking great lately and we told him so!
5)Needless to say with all the stress lately I feel like a wet door mat! With being up with the puppies a ton of times a night., That makes me cranky enough but then you toss in why isn't any of the laundry done and I am like a rocket ready to launch! My husband this morning between jumping on the couch was saying why wasn't the laundry done - He has no socks to wear..... Can you imagine, He couldn't work yesterday because we actually had a little bit of rain here and there. He came home had lunch and took a very long nap. When he woke up I asked him to go buy the horse & goat food, He said no. I had to put dinner on low and run off and get the food. Then he said, Has anyone feed the goats yet? I said no, He then yelled at my daughter to get out there and feed them - I had to go help her because the bags were still in the car (each one is 50lbs. and we had four of them). I am out there doing that when he was yelling at the dogs for something. I come in and feed the dogs/puppies cleaned out their playpens & did the dishes. I started a load of dark clothes in the washer & then finally sat down to watch a movie. I was plumb wore out and he says he's tired and going to sleep!

Okay enough moaning and growning, that get's you no where! It was great to post it though it helps to get it off my chest : )

Speeding Ticket!!!!!

Can you feel the steam rising from my post!
Yes, that's right my son has gotten his first speeding ticket!
I can not tell you how upset I am about this whole thing..... Not so much about the speeding ticket (I do have to say here in our area alot of the roads are not posted very well and you have no idea what the speed limit is) but that I told him to go to his friend's house and back home - No joy riding! Now that gas is $3.19 a gallon and he has no job, I'm not paying for him to waste gas...... Well, where did he get the ticket, You guessed it - down by the beach! The tickets is (brace yourself) $210.00 - He was driving 56 in a 45 speed zone. We had told him in the past if he were to get a speeding ticket we would take his license away... he handed me his wallet when he walked in so I knew he was in trouble. but what get's me, He said "I'm sorry I screwed up" but yet had the "Oh well attitude" and said "Haven't you ever gotten a speeding ticket - I don't know why you are getting so mad". This is what is burning me up - He has a nonchalant attitude about it, not thinking what this does to your insurance (which is already skyhigh from adding him on to the policy in the first palce) and the $210.00 has to come from some where!
Kids, They sure are challenging sometimes......

Our ~*Grow-A-Frog*~ Project

In today's mail (5/22/07) we received our tadpole. We were worried to open the packaging it came in, the last time they sent us a tadpole is wasn't alive. This time the little fellow seems to be doing just fine : )

Scary Day Yesterday!

Sometimes something happens and it just brings you back to reality.

We had one of those days yesterday - My daughter went out to feed the goats and came running in, saying "Fire"! My heart jumped into my throat, It is so dry here in Florida that any fire is a major concern... Sure enough a large fire was buring pretty close by to our house. Even though living in Florida we feel we are pretty prepared for anything, When a fire pops up it catches you so off guard. I scrabbled around trying to remember what I need to take if we had to evacuate. You should have seen me ripping through the closets getting my families photo albums (I still have them in the plastic tubs from when we evacuated to Alabama for one of those past hurricanes). I was a wreak and almost in tears, I talked a number of times to the people at the non- emergency phone number, To be honest they were of no help. Being that I have a ton of animals (especially the horse) I need to have a little idea if or when we would need to leave.

Anyway, I hardly slept last night, but the fire seems to be "contained" this morning - Just think the hurricane season is only like two weeks away!!!!!

Special Note: When Kelly was running around packing her backpack with things she wanted to take just in case - I noticed that not one of the new school books were packed : (

Sunny Saturday

Well my son has one more day of school left of 11th grade then he is off for the summer.... You don't know how sad I feel when I think of him starting his senior year in August! I know most mom's would be happy for their kids but not me, I just feel that the time has just passed WAY to quickly. My mom always said that you wake up one morning and your children are going to kindergarten, you wake up another morning they are teenagers, wake up again they are graduating high school, then getting married, then having their own babies..... she always said that I will not belive how quickly time flies by to not worry about all the little things to just enjoy the children while they are with me! Of course while your going through life it is hard to stop and "See the children", you worry that they aren't speaking yet, when will they be potty trained, walking, then you go through the whole school thing, then first boyfriends/girlfriends, driving a car ect..... It seems a blur when you think of it and it's hard to enjoy it while you are living it. But I so understand what she ment when she said you will wake up one morning and it will be all gone and you won't know where it went - I am at that point with Kristopher, He drives, has a girlriend & will be a senior in highschool! Where did my little man with the big belly laugh go?

He had a football game last night against Mainland, in Daytona Beach. He played alot but not all of the game, He was a bit disappointed about that. I really am not sure why they take him out of the game, he does very well I think.... He loves football - I don't know how he sticks with it though when his football coach tells him he will be playing both sides of the ball and then he doesn't even play the whole game!!!! They do this to him every year, and it looks like it will happen again this up-coming year too! here is the story about the football game: http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/Sports/Headlines/sptFBH01051907.htm

~* The Nile River *~

Here are a few pictures of our "Nile River". This is one of the projects from the Story of the World Book #1. We seemed to have a terrible time "overflowing" it.... We couldn't get the water to go over the banks : ( Kelly then really went crazy with the water and we totally flooded it! We haven't had much luck with any of the projects we have done so far..... But we will keep trying : )