School has begun...without books

Well, we began school on Monday without any books. Some books are online and we have been able to download them and read them on the computer, others, no. We received Learning guides via UPS on Tuesday and Joshua received books for Math and Science on Wednesday. Slowly we are getting into our new routine.

Weekend outing

We are packing to go out of town one last time before we start schooling. Our classroom is almost ready, just some last minute things to put away. We found out yesterday that we will be needing the schoolbooks to tart school. These are supposed to be to us within 2 weeks of our starting day. Life could be interesting for the first couple of weeks as we switch our routine and start back up to schooling especially without all our books.

Who we are

We are a fairly new schooling at home family. We are using public schooling but we are doing it via the internet and with books at home. This will be our second year. We have 2 boys who are in 2nd and 3rd grade. Our 3rd grader completed 2 years of math last year and will be starting 4th grade math this year. I have been looking at various blogs and things related to homeschooling and joined another forum this morning.
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10 days to go

We are now 10 days from the beginning of our school year. Only 6 business days in whcih to get books shipped to us.
We have not heard from teachers yet. We have names of teachers and when I emailed MOVip the reply I got said teachers would be checking in this week and getting in touch with us about what we needed to do next. Nothing so far and today is Friday.
Joe will have the same teacher he began 2nd grade with (until they had to split the class do to an overwhelming response).
School room is just about ready. Computer needs some work but other than that I think we are ready.

Another day closer

Still anxiously awaiting school materials. We will be doing Flat Stanley this year. Hoping to be able to get Joe more involved in journaling with this project.i got Stanley painted off and when Joe gets home from Grandma's this weekend we will start on it. After they have it colored I will take them and have them laminated.

Signed up to try to win another giveaway at Homeschool Creations this morning. Lots of giveaways there.

Counting Down

We are starting our schooling 2 weeks from today. Still no books...hoping for them this week. I like to go through them ahead of time and lay out our lesson plans. Oh well. That means we may start out SLOOOOOOOOOOOOW.

everyone loves giveaways

I am not doing a giveaway...but there is a giveaway going on here:
http://homeschoolcreations.blogspot.com/2009/08/curriculum-clean-out.html

Check it out...you never know what you'll find.

Gearing up for school

We have set aside one room for school. I will also be using it for scrapbooking. I am trying to get it done. We have 3 weeks until we start school.

Day 31

AM Weight 215.6 and 2 TruChocolates yesterday

Day 24

AM weight 217.4 down .8. Had 2 TruChocolates yesterday.

Day 23

weight 218.2 down another 1.2 lbs this week. no chocolate yesterday and ate late as well.

Days 20 & 21

Day 19 AM weight up .4 at 220.2
Day 20 AM weight down 1.2 at 219

2 TruChocolate each day

Day 19

AM weight 219.8 another loss Yea!! 2 TruChocolate yesterday. Even had a snack before bed.

Day 18

weight-- 221 lost 1.2 lbs.
WooHoo Go Me!!

Days 14-17

Date AM TC Daily total
weight loss/gain loss/gain

01/10/09 0 +2.2
01/11/09 221 0 -.2 +2
01/12/09 221.2 2 +.2 +2.2
01/13/09 222.2 2 +1 +3.2

Out of town and unable to weigh in. Measurements pretty well the same. Betterluck this week.

Day 11

Bought a digital scale. Like the way it gives "tenths" . Fasted yesterday until after church and then I ate so weight doesn't show a big loss. 10 glasses of water as well. the water has not been a problem this time around.

Date A.M. # TC Daily Overall
Weight Day Gain/Loss Gain/Loss

12/28/09 219 1
12/29/09 223 0 +4 +4
12/30/09 221 1 -2 +2
12/31/09 220 1 -1 +1
01/01/09 220 2 0 +1
01/02/09 225 3 +5 +6
01/03/09 222 3 -3 +3
01/04/09 223 2 +1 +4
01/05/09 221 2 -2 +2
01/06/09 220 2 -1 +1
01/07/09 220 1 0 +1
01/08/09 219.6 .4 +.6

day 10

I ate before bed last night. Messed up any loss I would have had. O well. Tomorrow's another day. I did get 12 glasses of water in yesterday so I am sure that will help in the long run.
Date AM Wt Choc. Gain/Loss
12/28/09 219 1
12/29/09 223 0 +4
12/30/09 221 1 +2
12/31/09 220 1 +1
01/01/09 220 2 +1
01/02/09 225 3 +6
01/03/09 222 3 +3
01/04/09 223 2 +4
01/05/09 221 2 +2
01/06/09 220 2 +1
01/07/09 220 +1

Lost again. I drank 11 glasses of water yesterday and ate smaller portions. Even had hershey's kisses before bed.

12/28/09 219 1
12/29/09 223 0 +4
12/30/09 221 1 +2
12/31/09 220 1 +1
01/01/09 220 2 +1
01/02/09 225 3 +6
01/03/09 222 3 +3
01/04/09 223 2 +4
01/05/09 221 2 +2
01/06/09 220 +1

Day 9

A weight loss!! woohoo. I had also lost 2 inches in my hips whe I measured Sunday am
Been drinking at least 6 glsses of water as well. This week has got to be better.

12/28/09 219 1
12/29/09 223 0 +4
12/30/09 221 1 +2
12/31/09 220 1 +1
1/1/09 220 2 +1
1/2/09 225 3 +6
1/3/09 222 3 +3
1/4/09 223 2 +4
1/5/09 221 2 +2

Day 8

12/28/09 219 1
12/29/09 223 0 +4
12/30/09 221 1 +2
12/31/09 220 1 +1
1/1/09 220 2 +1
1/2/09 225 3 +6
1/3/09 222 3 +3
1/4/09 223 2 +4

Days 6 & 7

overall loss/gain

Starting Point 219 lbs 12/28/08 Start
1 TruChocolate 223 lbs 12/29/08 +4
0 TruChocolate 221 lbs 12/30/08 +2
1 TruChocolate 220 lbs 12/31/08 +1
1 TruChocolate 220 lbs 01/01/09 +1
2 TruChocolate 225 lbs 01/02/09 +6
3 TruChocolate 222 lbs 01/03/09 +3

One thing I am learning is that EVERY TIME I eat after 7pm I show a weight gain the next day. I will be working on not eating after 7pm. I am going to try to ONLY have a LIGHT snack after 7pm. We'll see what happens.

Days 4 & 5

Updated weight is as follows:

Number of Weight
Chocolates 1st thing Date
in Day in AM

Starting Point 219 lbs 12/28/08
1 TruChocolate 223 lbs 12/29/08
0 TruChocolate 221 lbs 12/30/01
1 TruChocolate 220 lbs 12/31/08
1 TruChocolate 220 lbs 01/01/09
2 TruChocolate 01/02/09