October 23, 2008
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Thursday Thirteen #39
Again, not knowing how to plug pictures into the Thursday Thirteen format, you will see thirteen pictures from yesterday as my Thursday Thirteen entry.
I will call it:“Thirteen Things
About Our Wednesday”but, I extend my apologies to the “real” Thursday Thirteen people who created a format.
1. Jesse worked all day Wednesday hauling firewood home and then unloaded it and chopped/sawed some pieces into a size that will fit in our itsy bitsy fireplace. Quite an impressive amount for one day!
2. Even more hangers and junk (and some folded laundry) inhabits my bar – which is NEVER clean and I’m not sure why I even try so hard to keep it clean. I think I’m waiting for those winter clothes from the attic that will have to be hung up. THEN I will dispose of the extra hangers on the bar.
3. The spillage from the bar goes down to the bar chairs, which now hold neatly folded summer clothes in Wal-Mart sacks, all of them ready to be taken up to the attic.
4. Annamarie practicing writing ordinal numbers in school.
5. Luci working in her math book.
6. Rissy studying a math chart and filling in the blanks.
7. I think I overworked Luci. She bent over from her chair and just hung there. Maybe she was hoping the blood would rush back into her brain, so she could think more clearly! (???)
8. Annamarie and Rissy taking a break. Notice Rissy’s poor teeth? 4 missing and 1 growing in sideways!!! Annamarie’s grew in even more crooked;, but, as you can see, they straightened out by the time they all arrived.
9. Luci happily taking a REAL and much needed break.
10. My planning book, 92 million textbooks, and lots of sweat and tears helped us catch up yesterday, when we did 2 1/2 days of school work in one afternoon. A grueling task, but it is all ALL caught up except for Rissy’s language book.
11. For some reason my teaching about the Mississippi River, and then teaching them how I learned to spell it, hit all three of them funny. All of them laughed so hard, they cried. You can’t see it in Rissy’s picture, but, she laughed so hard, a vein bulged in her forehead. The were seriously hysterical with laughter – all three of them! A nice relief from the hard catching up push we were doing, but it was equally as hard to get them back under control. Maybe they were all “slap happy” from the serious stuff we’d been doing for hours!“M-I-S-S”
12. “I-S-S”
13. “I-P-P-I”
So that, my friends, was my yesterday!
Comments (5)
What a great day of school!!!!
That’s how I learned to spell it too!!! Let’s not forget E-N C-Y C-L O-P E-D I-A. It worked! We stilll know how to spell them! Too funny!!!!
Thanks for your great pictures. I feel like I could walk into your house, and not be a stranger at all. I feel like I know all of you so well! I even know where you keep things!
Kinda funny, but sweet. I may never have that opportunity, but I do enjoy sharing in your day. Any woman who can read 92 million text books….. WOW! 
Laughter is good for the soul! Hopefully it will help with the spelling as well! Have a great day~Dawne
Oh man, I really need to do the summer-winter switch!
In answer to your question, most of our skirts were given to us. The one that Sarah’s wearing was a birthday present from her grandparents. I think she got it at Coldwater Creek. I’ve no idea where they were originally acquired. Oh, mine came from Kohl’s, but I don’t think that’s what you were talking about.
We’ve been having to do massive amounts of schooling compressed into a little bit of time as well. It’s not fun. Here’s hoping we all survive!