What’s Up

Hello everyone,

I can’t believe it has been a week since my last post. I can believe I haven’t had any time to write a post.

The last I reported we were headed to the beach to celebrate me and Joshua’s birthday. Do you think the boys had fun?

You wouldn’t have guessed by this picture that a steady cold arctic wind was blowing the whole time we were there. I started off in shorts and a tank top and ended up with my jeans and sweatshirt on and a beach towel wrapped around my head like a Hijab. The boys however were not phased by the wind.

The birthday boy even took a dip in Siletz Bay. Weirdo.

That Saturday family came down to celebrate with us.

Then Sunday Michael finished his shop he had been building for nine days. Sorry, no pictures. He gets to do that post. You will be amazed.

The boys and I began the 2014 school year….on Sunday. I knew we would be gone ALL day on Tuesday and I just didn’t want to start the school year off with skipping a day of school. I know, I’m a mean teacher. We are now into our third day of the new year and it is still coming together. Couldn’t find my audio “Our Island Story” for history. It is probably in one of the many yet to be unpacked boxes. Still working through understanding the flow of some of our new curriculum. But it is fun. Most of the time.

Tuesday came and went. 10 hours in the car with four different appointments and errands in between. Good news and some unexpected news. The good news is Nicholas will probably get his braces off at his next check-up. The unexpected news is it looks like Joshua might need glasses. I’m going to make him an appointment with Nicholas’ eye doctor up at the Casey Eye Institute at the same time Nicholas has his appointment. We will see what they say.

Our animals are doing well. Kitty has had this eye thing ever since he adopted us.

You can see that his right eye is the problem one. Michael took him to the vet today and now we have two medicines to give him. Doctor thinks it will be 100% better. Oh, and he is already neutered. Confirms our suspicion that he must have been owned by someone before he adopted us.

The chicks are growing like mad. Apparently they have discovered the “King of the Hill” game.

And we can’t forget the awesome Supermoon Harvest Moon we have had the last two nights. I’ll leave you with my attempt at taking a good picture of it.

Thanx for keeping in touch even though I’m a bit slow on my part.

Karen