Only 51 days til Christmas!!! Where does the time go??? I declare every year time is faster and faster. Why is that? When you are a child and teenager, time creeps..then BAM! What happened? Kids, life, busyness? Oh well, I don't care for the speeded up version of life very much.
I am in the process of spinning dog hair for a customer. It is so beautiful. It's from a Huskie and, while it is short, it is making beautiful yarn. Unlike the matted mess I had been working on and am now expecting back from the fiber mill any day now.
Homeschooling is going great...now. Ben and I were having some attitude issues in math, but it's amazing what 2 superhero figures and a scrabble can do to boost enthusiasm! I was the bad guy in one corner, and Iron Man was Ben's figure in the opposite corner. The star square in the middle was the city I was trying to take over. Iron Man had to beat me to it, or doom and gloom. We are working on addition and subtraction with 3 digit numbers. Everytime he answered a problem in his workbook correctly, he got to move the number of ones. For instance, 100 + 209 = 309, so he got to move 9. If he missed it, I got to move 9. If he took longer than 1 minute to answer, I got to move a square. It was great. He made it to the city first and I had only advanced 4 squares! Thank the good Lord for the inspiration!
We are doing pretty great on our budget. I would still like to cut the food cost back some more. I spent 64 last week and 46 this week. I would like to make it to 25 or 30/week. If I would sit down and do a plan, that would probably do the trick! I need to get back into that.
Next week, after I get my special orders done, is going to be dedicated to decluttering in a major way! I'm going to document our progress. We have wayyyyyyyy to much stuff! Especially toys and kid's clothes. Yikes!
Well, back to spinning! Take care!
Kim
Homeschooling is going great...now. Ben and I were having some attitude issues in math, but it's amazing what 2 superhero figures and a scrabble can do to boost enthusiasm! I was the bad guy in one corner, and Iron Man was Ben's figure in the opposite corner. The star square in the middle was the city I was trying to take over. Iron Man had to beat me to it, or doom and gloom. We are working on addition and subtraction with 3 digit numbers. Everytime he answered a problem in his workbook correctly, he got to move the number of ones. For instance, 100 + 209 = 309, so he got to move 9. If he missed it, I got to move 9. If he took longer than 1 minute to answer, I got to move a square. It was great. He made it to the city first and I had only advanced 4 squares! Thank the good Lord for the inspiration!
We are doing pretty great on our budget. I would still like to cut the food cost back some more. I spent 64 last week and 46 this week. I would like to make it to 25 or 30/week. If I would sit down and do a plan, that would probably do the trick! I need to get back into that.
Next week, after I get my special orders done, is going to be dedicated to decluttering in a major way! I'm going to document our progress. We have wayyyyyyyy to much stuff! Especially toys and kid's clothes. Yikes!
Well, back to spinning! Take care!
Kim
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