I don't have any pictures to share from the lake on Saturday but we had a great time. The humidity was low here so it was a nice break from southern heat.
I kept nursery today at church so not much to share there. Homegroup was great tonight. We reviewed John and went over chapter 10.
Tomorrow is a busy day so I'm off to bed. Hope you guys had a good weekend.
Julie
I feel like the next few days before surgery are going to be nuts. Please remember to pray for me Wednesday AM at 8EST.
Tomorrow is a day of fun at the lake again. Yippee!!
Sunday is church, a birthday party and then church again.
Monday is karate camp, chiropractor, play date at the pool.
Tuesday is bible study, karate camp and all last minute prep for being mentally and physically out of it for who knows how long, mother in law comes.
Wednesday is the big day. I have to be at the hospital at 6:30am. My surgery is at 8am and should last 2.5 hours. It's also the last day of karate camp.
Whew! I'm tired just thinking about it.
Maybe I'll have some more fun pictures from the lake tomorrow to share.
In the meantime here are my FLOPS for eyecorn's contest!!! I got them in Atlantic Beach, NC. Beaufort, to be exact. I love them! They are so comfy and pretty. Although hard to tell in the picture they are pink and brown. Tres fashionable!!!!!
(Side and bottom view…..and just because I'm a really industrious homeschool mom I have a bottle opener on the bottom of my shoe in the event we're somewhere that doesn't have one 
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I couldn't get the rest of the crew to stand still long enough to take pictures of their shoes on their feet but if I can get them before the contest ends I'll include them later!
IN HIM,
Julie
I feel like we have already celebrated the 4th. This weekend we spent Saturday at the lake with friends who own jet skis and a boat. It was so much fun. I loved riding the jet ski again. It had been a while. Here are some pictures from the weekend. I hope you all have a great 4th of July.
Julie
Here's everyone on the boat…..well, everyone but me. I'm on the shore with the camera of course.
Can you believe people actually ride this thing? That's my son who is second from the right…..and NO, that's not me with him.
#2 son and dad looking like Tom Cruise
#2 son and his theatrics
Baby girl and her “su-su” or sucker in the English language
“the rascal” #3 son swimming next to shore
#2 son waiting for dad to take hime for a ride
Hubbie and #2 son on the jet ski
My oldest son with his toothless grin!!!
Please go welcome Kathy to the family of HSBers. Her writing is so real, heartfelt, honest, raw, and led by the Master. The name of her blog is Kamp Splete Home School
Go give her a big HSB welcome. I know you'll love her.
And has anyone checked out Preschoolers and Peace? It's got fabulous ideas whether you have a preschooler or not. The above link is to her website. Her blog site at HSB is here. She also has a great link to My Lil Picasso which is a fabulous website for prepackaged crafts for your kids! Oh, I'm so going to use them this year for my four year old.
JULIE
Some time ago a friend of mine thought she may be allergic to her kitten Peanut so I agree to take it for a while until another friend (who'd agreed to take her) came to get her.
Well, she didn't work out at the other friend's house because the cat she already owned was quite a bit older and a kitten was too rambunctious and frustrated the dickens out of her older cat so I brought Peanut back to my house and took another cat someone had given me to her house. This cat was quite a bit older and got along with her cat much better than the kitten. (Yes, just call me the cat lady….people must see that stamped on my forehead for they are often trying to give me cats.) Oh, and did I mention my hubbie has a very humble dislike for cats??
So now I have this kitty that we have come to call the “Foster Kitty” who's real name is Peanut. Well, Foster Kitty (Peanut) is now pregnant. Guess I waited too long for that vet trip, huh?
So I tell you all this to say we are getting ready for some pretty cool homeschool REAL LIFE experiences at my house. I've never seen a cat give birth so I hope I'm around when she does. I have no idea how far along she is but I do know their gestation period is about 60 days. She's got a nice wobble to her now.
God has provided for us in yet another way by causing this cat to take an unmistakable liking to our babysitter, Ruth. She takes to Ruth like she's taken to no one else and thinks Ruth hung the moon. So Ruth has agreed to take Peanut and her nursing kittens back to nursing school with her in August. Yea Ruth!!!! and YEA GOD!!!
We both are going to try to find homes for the kittens so if any of you HSBers out there want a sweet adorable well loved kitten I AM YOUR WOMAN!
I can't wait to post pictures of the birth. Oh, how I hope God allows me to be a part of it (from purely an observation standpoint)!
IN HIM
The Cat lady…..julie
Well now that we are back from the beach where my children ran with wild abandon for a week they have completely lost their minds now that we are home. They have no idea how to entertain themselves, they are driving me and one another crazy and I'm going to list them on EBAY if it goes much further!! Anybody bidding?
So I need your help. My kids are 7,6,4,2. We do not have a pool but have friends with pools so that occupies some time. I'm not a fan of lots of TV or Playstation.
HELP me! What do your kids do all summer? I can not constantly entertain them as they want me to. Please, please give me your suggestions, ideas or anything else?
JULIE
Well, half way back…we're at my mom's which is half way to our house. And I have a high speed connection. All of you out there with dial up. God bless your heart.
Here are a few pictures from our trip.
Here's my sweet hubbie and my daughter in her new WINGS beach outfit.
And here is the king of the castle…..
Here's my sweet 6 year old……
The three musketeers……..
My seven year old trying his hand at the skim board……
And my hubbie was kind (I guess you'd say) enough to allow three of the kids to cover him with sand…..
My aunt's oceanfront house where we were blessed to spend the entire week…………
Baby girl and her daddy headed out to sea………….
My artistic side showing through……….
The entire clan…….
More to come from home. Enjoy your weekend.
IN HIM
julie
Yes, I'm safely at the beach but having to deal with dial up. Oh, how horrible!! So….I've not got any new photos to post because of the cave (oh, the front row beach house) I'm vacationing in. My great aunt is a saint to allow her family to use such a beautiful home. We spent all day on the beach and will probably do so again tomorrow. We have a belated Father's Day Sunset Cruise planned.
Do I really have to go back home????
Until…..
julie
ok…i tried one really small….let's see how it does uploading. this is my friend sandy and her puppy dog BUD
We've spent the last several days at mom's house and at the pool. Tomorrow morning we leave for the beach. My kids are so excited. We're going to spend lots of time on the beach, probably do some fishing, go see Cars AGAIN (mama hasn't seen it), eats lots of yummy seafood, scrapbook and take lots of pictures.
Can you believe I've been away from home for two days and have not yet taken a picture? You'd think I had a fever HUH?
Ronda has been helping me redesign my blog. It's actually harder than I thought. She's doing such a great job. I just have trouble deciding on something I won't get bored with. I tend to get bored and need to rearrange things quite a bit.
I hope you all have a terrific weekend.
Oh, my 7 year old journaled today without being asked!! Yippee! I love those small accomplishments….he sounded out all the words by himself, only misspelled a few and wrote an entire sentence! I'm so proud of him!!!!!!
IN HIM
julie
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