Thunder and lightening

Before I went to bed last night, I watched the weather. He said there would be a storm brewing our way around 5 or 6am Fri morning. Well at least he predicted there would be a storm. He just didn't get the time right. Around 2 or 3 am I'm woken up by the storm. Not a bad one, just enough to wake me. Thankfully none of the girls got up until later. And apparently I was too tired to put her back to bed. I really need to work on having her put her self back to sleep once she wakes up. Hopefully soon I will do this because right now she wakes me up to I have to do it.

Yesterday we an ok day. It was gloomy and cloudy and N didn't want to do school work. R was going ok, but it seems right now he's having a hard time understanding some fraction concept. So he's been listening and watching the tutor CD's but apparently it's harder than it looks. I"ve told him that on Fri he can take 2 problems in his next lesson and watch the guy do it on the CD. I'm hoping this will work. N is doing really well with her times tables. After having purchased www.timestales.com she has memorized them in a weeks time. She does still have problems with the problem 9x7, but as the instruction say, keep working on it until the child has it. I figured we'll keep working with this program throughout the summer and then hopefully be able to continue to the next level of math.

I also asked our next door neighbor if he knew of anyone that does concrete work. Our front porch is literally falling apart and NEEDS to be fixed this yr. He says he might know of someone. He says the guy is retired, but does side jobs. It would be nice to find someone trustworthy. The porch is also attached by trellis and the one side on the end is almost unattached to the porch. Not good. The whole porch could collapse. I think today I will call our other neighbor and see if he can help us any.

Today we're doing our normal school day. Hoping the kids will buckle down and get started early so they're not just finishing with math by lunch. R tends to want to play online too much and so I have to constantly get after him. It's frustrating at times, but I'm still glad he's home and not in ps. Too much uncertainly and no learning going on IMO. Tomorrow night R will be going to his Sunday School teacher's home, just for an evening of hanging out. He got released last Sun as their teacher and they want to give him a send off. So dh will be doing that.

Tomorrow morning we'll be cleanging the church one last time this yr. We have 2 other families that are assigned to help, but dh doesn't think they'll show. That's ok at least we know how to do it. Hopefully after we're done, we'll be able to do some sandal shopping and patio furniture shopping then lunch one last time before dh is on call again next week. When dh is on call we don't do anything that requires long periods of time. When he gets paged, he needs to be able to answer his call within 10 min and be at his work computer in 10 min as well. So we don't do a lot during that week. Thankfully it only happens every 4 to 5 weeks. The last few have been doozies.

This Sun, will be my first week doing my new calling. That is putting the ward bulletin together and having it ready each Sun. It may take awhile since this will affect the whole ward and I want to do it right. I've been asking dh to help out a bit at first. Dh has been good about helping me so far. As for his calling, he tells me he's hoping sometime this yr to be released. He says coorelation meetings is starting to get on his nerves as some of the people aren't always polite. I didn't ask to what extent, and he didn't say.

Karie
www.kariesplace.robertcity.com