Thread: Friday Roll Call, 9/30

TGIF
Last day of September!
Where the heck did the month go?
Cleaning house today. No errands, so get to do it until DH gets home this afternoon. I might actually get some stuff caught up.

Weekend is ?? Depends on weather. Heard we are to have rain. Boys had an airsoft meet with friends but if it is raining, they don't want to go as it is outside in the woods. We need to paint trim but again, rain...

But no family this weekend so going to enjoy it. DH parents come in NEXT weekend.

Going to work in garden and pull the last of it. Need to clean heating vents and change out filter, so we are ready when we need it. And while DH is down there in the basement/pit/crawl space.... I am having him spray for spiders again They can live outside, not in my house or under my house. Not when I am allergic.

And that is it here. BORING.
Hope everyone has a FANTASTIC Friday!

Lol A&W that doesn't sound boring! You are so busy

We had a successful homeschool week. Wrapped up our South America unit by making a Kapok tree (Amazon rainforest) with all the animals. I could see DS processing the info as we did it. "Jaguar goes in the understory, Mom! That's not a tree anteater; that one lives on the forest FLOOR!" One day he'll figure out I'm doing all the wrong things to trick him into correcting me. Not yesterday, though. Yesterday he just thought I hadn't been paying attention for the last four weeks

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The 2nd pic is his bromeliad with poison dart frogs. That was our animal for S America. We are both total experts now.

Today a friend had a party with a bunch of kids. Mostly toddlers, but one 4yo boy and DS had a good time catching geckos and swinging on their rope swing for a while. The littles are worn out. Good time for a nap.

Excited for a bday party tomorrow. Usually I hate kid parties, but this one is for a very good friend's kid. Not just some randos.

Also joined a coop this week. First date is the 10th. Idk much about them, but I saw one of the organizers post on a local fb page a while ago about looking for or starting a secular coop, so I'm hoping this is that! It's for pre-k and kinder kids. All of our kids are the same ages. Hoping I like this group, and it can be one to grow with. Lofty expectations, I know. Got my fingers crossed.

Dh on vaca from work next week. We were going to go somewhere, but had the roof repaired instead. Blah. Always something with a house. At least it's done now. No more leaks and the tiles that have been weird for five years are all fixed up and looking great. So a relaxing (doubt it) week at home just doing our usual. Fine with me. At least I don't have to pack!!!

It's been a while since I roll called. I don't always have the chance to post, but I try to at least lurk you!

Chilly/crisp fall day today, got a walk in with the kids in mid-morning sunshine, visited my mother, and that was good. Got DS8 through his Khan Academy for math, and he did his cursive practice enthusiastically once he downloaded a good drawing app on his tablet, that let him practice with his stylus in a way he felt was more fun or interesting. DD12 is upstairs napping...seems like her lessons have been a bust the last couple of days. She said she'd do yesterday's lessons as makeup work on Saturday, but it's looking like she is going to be doing lessons all weekend at this rate. We're trying a "school" sort of thing, where she actually only has to do one daily lesson in math, and one daily lesson in LA, from school textbooks, plus a "worksheet of the day" in either physical science, geography, or US history (rotating daily) but she just seems to need/want to space out a lot these past couple of days.

But she wants to do this schedule, says she feels like she is accomplishing something, not feeling adrift, so there it is. Plus, it is good learning, when she does it...including learning what happens when you put work off and then it piles up on you but you still have to do it. Better to learn the pitfalls of procrastination now.

Somehow the work on paper, done out of the textbook, is more challenging for her than the Khan Academy work. She can seem to be fine with charts, graphs, statistics, on Khan, but then in her textbook, gets a 65% on her daily work because of some big holes in her understanding that need addressing. It's easier to just passively click on things when you get the idea readily enough, but much harder to need to produce a good chart or graph, or analyze mean, median, mode, and range, from a chart and graph, on paper, yourself. So it's good she's doing the textbook work. Much more thorough, for her.

But so far, it's chilly, turning gray, my DH had to take the car to work today, and I have a pot of hearty stew on the stove, and the toddler is asleep in my lap. The housework will have to wait, and DD is going to have one rough weekend ahead of her if she doesn't get anything done for 2 days running.

The Balloon Fiesta starts tomorrow but they awaken Darth Vader and Yoda escorted by the 501st Legion the day before, so that is what we did.
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And it was a beautiful day!
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Who the heck gets an ant colony trying to nest in your fish tank?! ME
WTH!
Stupid little 5 gal. tank that I won. It always leaks. The lid gets condensation and drips. Makes me nuts. It is in the daycare area. I finally got fed up today, decided to add those 2 goldfish into my other tank. JUST enough room, barely but fine.
Go to lift off lid to catch these 2.... and on the water filter top is a pile of ants AND eggs. Like at least 200 of each. Little teeny tiny ants.
Slap it back down, quickly scoop the fish, holler to the boys to come and get door for me and out the tank went.
SO WEIRD.
By the time I got it outside and showed the boys, they were already snatching eggs and trying to bail.

Originally Posted by Aandwsmom

Who the heck gets an ant colony trying to nest in your fish tank?! ME
WTH!
Stupid little 5 gal. tank that I won. It always leaks. The lid gets condensation and drips. Makes me nuts. It is in the daycare area. I finally got fed up today, decided to add those 2 goldfish into my other tank. JUST enough room, barely but fine.
Go to lift off lid to catch these 2.... and on the water filter top is a pile of ants AND eggs. Like at least 200 of each. Little teeny tiny ants.
Slap it back down, quickly scoop the fish, holler to the boys to come and get door for me and out the tank went.
SO WEIRD.
By the time I got it outside and showed the boys, they were already snatching eggs and trying to bail.

Oh no!! Yuck!!

Originally Posted by RTB

The Balloon Fiesta starts tomorrow but they awaken Darth Vader and Yoda escorted by the 501st Legion the day before, so that is what we did.


And it was a beautiful day!

That's is great. DH and I hope to go next year!

Yay RTB! Capt Rex is my favorite of the 501st.

I dont get the ants in the tank, either.