What? It's October tomorrow?

This school year is seriously flying by.
It must be my awesome teaching partner- making everything so easy for me!  I hope I'm making things as easy for her...

This blog has really gone on the back burner since school started.  

Take pictures of my family?  
Not in a few weeks.

Do I take my camera everywhere I go?
Yep.

However, we haven't just been laying around the house either. 
We've been so busy that Jada yelled, "YEAH!" after she asked this morning if we could just stay home today so she could play with her toys.  

This weekend we took the younger three to the Cosmosphere.  Every year museums in the area have "Museum Day" where you can get two admissions free.  Interestingly enough, we went into the Planetarium and learned about the stars and constellations- which happened to be what I taught about in Sunday School this morning to my preschoolers.  God has a funny way of working in my life.    

At school, we are teaching more to something called Common Core this year- it's state standards that will be the same for every student in the United States, instead of what we've been teaching from- which is each states' own standards in reading, math, etc.  It's been quite a shift in teaching, but I love it.  And this weekend I found the mother load of all.  A website that another school district has put together that incorporates everything we're trying to teach this year!  I'm so excited I could stay up all night looking at it.  

I'm not kidding.

Changing the subject, I found Trey some ridiculously awesome high tops tonight.  He also got a few pairs of "tall socks."  Like what his Daddy wears.  He wanted to wear them to bed, and has already informed me that he's wearing them tomorrow.  

Anything to be like his hero.

Our puppy, Jasper, went through a 10 day experience where he puked up everything he ate.  Then, had blood work, a stool sample, x rays, and a barium test- all for the vet to say he needed surgery.  So, I got another opinion- the opinion I should have gotten in the first place.  Aunt Connie's and Uncle Norman's.  (They are vets in a different town.) Turns out he had worms of some kind (Doesn't that just happen to outside pets who don't get fed every day?  Not inside dogs, right?), and they could be a lifelong problem.  

In my mom's words:  Oh the joys of owning a dog.

Yes, the "joys" of paying a vet bill for all things mentioned above BEFORE we got to Connie's clinic.  There goes that IPad I might have wanted for Christmas.  

But, he's better now.
See?

Back his old ways of digging up the yard/garden.  Eating everything he get a hold of.  Hey, I guess those worms might have come from the birds he's eaten in the last few months.

Hmm..., back to mom's words:  Oh the joys of owning a dog.