All Is White With the World…My World, That Is.

Snow, snow, snow! I wish I had a photo to share. It’s beautiful and… I don’t have to shovel it. It’s a shame that my back has been messed up for a few weeks now –I can’t shovel. {oh, you can just imagine my sadness, right? heehee}

This week, as last week, just flew by. I was telling my hubby on Wednesday night when we went out to dinner –just the two of us! that rarely happens –that it felt like much further into the year already.

I’m determined for some reason to get this end-of-the-week post in here for some reason. I was determined last Friday as well. That worked well…

We’ve been busy every day but Tuesday it seems for the last two weeks:

• Sunday- church and luncheon, then afternoon church {we left home at 9:30 am, got home after 3pm}
• Monday- babysitting {that’s 3.5 hours of the day –in the middle of the day}
• Wednesday- evening church {which we’ve missed but since it’s on the schedule it makes it feel like we are busy lol}
• Thursday- teen planning meeting {for the church’s parent’s night out event that will take place in February} and yesterday Lee had an orthodontist appointment and we ran errands.
• Tonight the kids have Winter Olympics {lol- that just means games} at the church and I have a mom’s meeting with the other homeschool moms to figure out some fun activities to do this year.
• Tomorrow afternoon we are going over to our pastor’s house for games. Dear hubby is going to be staying home and giving my car a much needed tune-up.

Next week, with the exception of the ortho appointment and the games, will be the same.

Some things I’ve been doing the past weeks is making ‘new’ things for dinner. I made chicken pot ‘pie’ one night {top photo}. Macaroni and cheese ‘muffins’ another night {bottom photo}. A few nights ago I made chili ‘muffins’. I didn’t get any photos of the last muffins. All the muffins are really is the mix in muffin tins.

I’ve been reading a lot. I finished today The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins {thank you, Ellen!}. Great book, albeit very long. It is worth the length, in my opinion. So many books of that length make me want to skim and skip- not this one. I am currently reading Unexpected Love by Julie Zine Coleman {a review from BookSneeze}. I posted the review of before this {no, I’m not quite finished but I felt I could write a review anyway}. And many other books that I don’t recall the titles right now. I feel like I’ve just been reading every single day. Actually, I know I have been. It’s not a bad thing…

School has been going well…I think. Can I be honest here? For just a moment *wink* –the kids have very little with me. They give narrations and we have discussions but generally, they do their …thing. It feels so weird. It feels like I’m doing something wrong.

I have nothing to teach them that they cannot learn on their own, honestly. I find what they should learn {or more precisely, what I want them to learn –just because the state says they have to learn something, well, doesn’t mean they will *ahem*} and give them the resources {good books, useful sites, etc.?}. They do the rest. Oh and I ‘grade’ their work.

I would like it if they had more people to talk with, about what they are learning or anything really. I’ve tried to get them to hang out at the AO forums with the other teens but that hasn’t gone over very well.

Well, dinner needs to be finished before we head out…again. Ugh, have to get the car cleaned off, too!