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Adventures in Potty Training

I have four children.  N is almost 11, T is 8, and the twin girls, R & B, will be 4 sooner than I am ready.  The girls have been completely potty trained since early this spring.  R was the last...

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Burglers, Guns, and Yes, the Bird

It's Sunday.  What do the Houdeshell's do on Sunday's you might ask?  Well, we go to church.  Why?  Are we uber religious?  No.  So, why do y'all go to church?  Well, we go to church because it's...

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Curriculum Arrives!

Here are the books in their boxes!Okay, so if I were an absolutely and perfectly organized person, I'd have posted this already.  Well, I would have ordered our curriculum way before I did.  Although I...

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Homeschooling the First (and Second) Day

Today is Monday, August 30th.  Well, I probably won't actually post this till tomorrow, but you get the idea for now, right?  We officially started homeschool today.  As far as the schooling went, it...

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Totschool/Preschool Homeschool

Sorry it's a bit late, but here are the highlights from preschool last week.  While the big kids did some school work, the little girls did some fun things as well.  One thing the girls did was draw....

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Correction

In the last post, I wrote that R drew a picture of Kirby.  Well, it was B.  Sorry for the confusion!!!Here is Kirby...just so you have something to go from:Kirby

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Homeschool Update

It's been awhile since I posted about what's going around here.  The week of the 6th the kids had their very first field trip.  We all including Dean went to Living History Farms.  I have fond memories...

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Preschool

In my last post I thought I didn't have any new pictures of the little girls and preschool. Well, I found some!  Last week we were learning about the letter F.  We learned a Bible verse starting with...

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How My Day Has Been (Or the day Mommy wanted to Scream)

With my blog, I want to be transparent.  I don't want to just post the good things.  I want to be able to not only show you all the good things, but also the times I want to run away screaming.  Well,...

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Update and more pics!

I know, I know it's been like FOREVER since I've posted.  Sorry.  I do have great excuses though!  Do you want to hear them?  On the girls birthday, D's aunt passed away.  So that week was really super...

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More Preschool News

R working on her letter "T" Dot Marker page.  This day B was being a little defiant.  Here she is refusing to work!  LOL!R tracing her letter "T" pageB finally deciding to work!Our preschool board....

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Calendar Time and Preschool Revisited

B working on her Dot page for the letter H!R working on her dot page.During Calendar Time, we sing a song welcoming each of the kids to school for the day.  Afterwards we sing another song spelling...

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November Days

Well, it's November 7th already.  Where does the time go?  I'm in the process of trying to find a good picture for our Christmas cards.  This week is the last week I give myself for them.  Of course,...

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Trunk or Treat

This year, the Saturday before Halloween, our church hosted their first annual trunk or treat!  About 50 families were on hand to open their trunks and hand out candy.  We ended up handing out candy...

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Making Cookies

One afternoon after school was finished for the day, we decided to make chocolate cookies!  All the kids wanted to help, and so we readied all the ingredients to start baking!  We turned on the oven,...

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Thanksgiving 2010

I know, I know...it's December 7th!  Why am I writing about Thanksgiving?  Well, because I can.  Yep.  It's my blog, and I'll do anything I want to!  LOL!This year was interesting.  In fact, if I were...

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Homeschool Update

I spend a lot of my time writing about our preschool adventures and not a lot of time on the big kids school.   So I just wanted to let you all know how the big kids were doing!  N breezed right...

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Prayers

Our choir could sure use as many prayers as possible right now!  Our Christmas Musical is Saturday and Sunday night at 6pm.  The big kids and I could use them, too.  We've all been dealing with all the...

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Funny...

Here's a video of Dean and T.  It's funny because Dean all of a sudden dared T to go with him to the mailbox barefoot to see who could get there the fastest.  It's funny because there was snow on the...

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Family Update

I have been really really bad about taking pictures of school these few weeks.  We've worked on letters F and E in preschool and just recently some Christmas themed stuff.  Hopefully after the holidays...

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Happy New Year?!?!?

Happy 2011!!!!Ah yes.  Christmas is past, and New Years is past, and it's colder than a....you fill in whatever your heart desires!  I actually Googl*d that to see what I could find, and the...

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Where has the time gone?

Wow.  It's April.  Already.  Where did the time go?  I haven't posted a lot lately because our wonderful, cute, energetic puppy chewed the power cord for my laptop.  Because of this, my computer time...

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Study of Mercury

One of the lessons from our science book, Exploring Creation: Astronomy, was about the planet Mercury.  After we had read all about Mercury, and even looked up information about the space probes that...

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A*wana Grand Prix

This was our first year ever having a child desire to participate in the A*wana Grand Prix.  I think T would have liked doing it last year, but I don't recall seeing a paper come home about it!  LOL!...

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Doing school the home school way, rockets, and crazy hair

Just this past Wednesday night was Crazy Hair Night at A*wana.  All the kids were able to participate, which I was happy about!  Dad brought home some colored hair spray for the kids to use, and all...

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