This Week At Our House...

I have finally gotten every thing we need to start our school year in two weeks... I think I have almost everything!!! I am really excited about the new year, but after seeing how much more work there is to do compared to last year I think I may need to take an extra month off to fully prepare!!! I am amazed at how much more there is to learn this year. God help me!!! LOL

DS is looking forward to being in the third grade, but he has told me that he really likes summer vacation, too! LOL He's excited about all of our new books, folders, etc - I don't think reality has hit him just yet... that's probably a good thing! :-)

Besides getting ready for homeschool, I reopened my online store about a month ago so I've been really busy with that the last few weeks. It is going even better than before so far and I am having a lot of fun with it. It's always a little bit of work trying to get everything set up and going, but I know that eventually all my hard work will pay off. It's already picked up a bit just in the last week. I shipped 12 packages off this past Saturday!!! Praise God!!!

We are also in the process of finding a new house. If you pray today, please remember us during our search. We have found several houses we like, but we are really interested in one and hopefully if it's God's will we'll be able to get that one. It's a lot closer to hubby's work and would cut out over an hour and half of driving every day!!! We'll be able to see him more and the money we save in gas will be awesome, too!

Oh, did I mention that we have a new pet bird!!! I've never had one of these before, but honestly they're not much work at all. He's a blue parakeet named "Blue" and he's adorable. He was my mom's bird and she decided to give me an early "birthday present" so I ended up bringing him home a few weeks ago.

On a funny note, when we first saw the bird, my Mom had him in one cage and had another empty cage sitting over to the side. DS asked her why she had the empty bird cage and being silly, I told him that she had an imaginary bird. He seemed to be ok with that answer and I didn't think he had taken me seriously.

The next time we were visiting the empty bird cage was gone and DS asked my Mom what had happened to the invisible bird. Laughing , I told him that she had gotten it an imaginary cage and once again I thought he knew I was kidding.

Well, on the day my mother gave me Blue, DS asked her if she would be keeping the invisible bird and she told him he could have it! To this day, about a month later, he tells everyone that we have 2 birds and his bird sits underneath my bird cage. I didn't realize how serious he was until one day I put the bird food and grit underneath my cage and then he got upset and reminded me that his bird cage usually sat there!!! I moved the food and apparently his imaginary bird, Crush, has been sitting there ever since!!! LOL