Sorry

What can I say but sorry?  Life just got absolutely crazy busy.  I seriously do not know where the last 7 months have went.

Let's see where shall we start with the update???   Hmmm  Oh, I know!

 Let's start with Alyssa totally knocked out the 4th-grade curriculum in no time flat and is currently almost 25% done with the 5th grade in all subjects.  At this rate, she will be working on the 6th-grade curriculum by August.  She is loving school again and I couldn't be happier!  Well yeah, actually I could if only they would do away with common core and PARCC testing.  Seriously they are a major pain my a@@!  But either way I am extremely proud of my kiddo and her determination to keep going now matter what or how stupid she thinks it is!  And trust me, she rants about the stupidity of common core math DAILY!


Oh and did I mention while dealing with school, work and normal life crap I am now planning a wedding?  Yeah, seriously I think I have spent just as much time trying to convince the love of my life to just elope it as I have planning it.  Only 99 days left to go so I still have some time to convince him right?  I mean really what man wouldn't jump on the fact that his other half wants to save thousands of dollars and just elope it??  Mine that's who!  I tell you we are a bunch of oddballs in this house.  LOL


Also, while dealing with all of that I've been on a mission to cut out as much preprocessed crap out of our diets as possible.  Do you know how hard that is?  But the bonus to it is it has me cooking a lot more, and I am loving every single minute of it.  I am starting to become a tad bit of a foodie!  LOL

Well until next time hug your kids and tell your family you love them daily.  You never know when they won't be there!

- Dr Pepper and Chocolate Milk

What was I thinking?

Some days I seriously sit here and wonder what in the world did I get myself into!  I work full time from, and if that wasn't enough I have some pretty big family commitments with a mother who did a stint the beginning of the year and has been recently diagnosed with ms and is partially blind,  I crazily went and added schooling my child at home.

Well surprisingly it's been going pretty good.  We choose to go with k12 through Arkansas Virtual Academy.  It does allow for some schedule flexibility.  Thankfully!  Because between weekly doctors trip for my mother and work meetings we seriously need it.  Wednesday had to have been the craziest day we have had so far in this venture (more to come about that later).  But I will say keeping my kid home for school has to have been the best decision I have made ever!  Between a school nurse who refused to follow doctors orders on more than one occasion, a teacher whom refused my child her medication on a school field trip forcing another parent to call me and my child being honestly scared to go back to school in her room ever again, and a school principal who blatantly turned a blind eye to the constant bullying issue from 2 boys to multiple students for multiple years.  I ave seen a change in my child in just the short amount of time that we've been doing this.  She LOVES school again!  She hasn't loved school like this in years.  She has a seriously big goal to finish fourth grade by Christmas break, and I am completely supporting that goal!

Till next time say a prayer for me because I might just go crazy teaching fourth grade math!


Dr Pepper and Chocolate Milk