School Time!

This week Dravyn started school, and boy does she love it!  We are using Hands on Homeschooling from www.handsonhomeschooling.com.  I have had my eye on this particular curriculum for awhile and finally ordered it.  It got here on Tuesday, so this week we have tried to pick the big points and go for it because we were making up time from missing Monday.

Every morning she goes and gets her Bible and tells me it's time for school.  We read a story, this week was Jonah and the whale, and go over a bible verse, which she is still struggling with but to be fair apostle is a big word for a 2 year old.

There are lots of projects for each day, and baby girl is just loving everything.  Squares have been the focus this week. And she keeps telling me she wants to glue squares every time we have some down time.

Today's project of shaving cream squares did end up a little bit of a shaving cream skating rink, but I'm pretty sure it was the most hilarious thing I have ever seen her do.  She had lots of fun, clean up was easy and all the activities so far have been great for her.  I definitely will be updating with more posts of all her fun school activities!

Valentines Day 2014

This year was the first year that Dravyn "got" Valentines Day.  She kept telling me for almost two weeks before hand that "Valentines means card and balloon".  Her father snuck out the night before to make all her Valentines dreams come true.

First up was grandma's gifts.  Fun Doc McStuffins activities, candy, and a bracelet.

Then Daddy got to wow her.  Just look at the face when she got the card.

The balloon, oh the balloon. She loves that thing.  3 days later and she is still dragging it around the house all day.  After Kevin went to work she wanted to make cards for everyone so she picked 5 pieces of my card stock, one for each of us including herself.  She didn't want me to fold for her or cut for her so the coloring commenced. 

She gave all of them to her grandma and grandpa except for the one she kept for herself.  Kevin and I exchanged cards, ate dinner, and watched Gone in 60 Seconds.  It was exactly what I wanted though if our tradition continues I think I will need to get the movie on blu-ray.

I am so glad that Dravyn has such a great dad.  I am glad that she has someone to show her that "I love you" is not just something you say on Valentines Day.  I am glad that she is starting to understand holidays and that she is so great at sharing.  It is so exciting watching her grow and understand more, I just love the person she is becoming.

I'm Doing Alright.

I am not real fond of days like today.  I had a rough day yesterday and I woke up this morning, walked through the living room that was covered in Dravyn's toys to the kitchen where I pulled out a clean pan and started cooking breakfast around all the dirty dishes that were still there from dinner last night.  After we had eaten and my husband was off to work I was sitting on the couch with my daughter watching cartoons and I got to thinking.

That's when the trouble started.

Sometimes I hate my brain.  It always thinks things like "I am such a bad mother.", "I have no idea what I am doing", and the always popular. "I am never going to catch up".  That last one has been popping up my whole life.  I just keep thinking how am I ever going to figure out how to do this mom thing?  Thankfully that was when I remembered yesterday.

We built a bunch of stuff with her toys.  It took a lot of focus for her to build that "ice cream."

Then she wanted story time.  She read a dinosaur book to her baby all snuggled up in her bed.

Yes we probably watched a little too much Scooby-Doo and ate a little too much junk food.  But she had a good day.  She had fun, and we talked about letters and counted some of her building pieces.  And I decided this morning that I'm doing alright.  We are doing good.  And maybe I don't have a plan for the rest of her life, but I do have a plan for tonight.  It's called Macaroni and Cheese and it's a good plan.