Ultrasound pics

So here I am 12 weeks pregnant and have had 2 ultrasounds.

That probably sounds a bit overboard and it wasn't intended to have 2 of them. The first one was due to the fact that 10 years ago I was pregnant and miscarried, so I wanted to be sure things were alright. So that was one was simple and we got to see our puffy grain of rice.

7 weeks

Then our second appointment we just had on the 9th of March. I was 11 weeks and heartbeat was tough to find with the doppler so she sent me over to the US tech to get the fetal HR. There we got to see the flutter of the heartbeat.

Next up we have the quad screen and the US at around 18 weeks where I HOPE we can find out the gender.

Scripture & a Snapshot Sunday

I haven't participated in Scripture and a Snapshot in several weeks shoot back around Christmas time I guess.  So I thought I'd attempt to join back in, can't say I'll be back regularly but here's one for now. I haven't taken any new photos so I went with an old flower shot and a lovely verse.



We found out almost 2 weeks ago that we have been blessed with baby number 2. Yep after 13 years we will be having another baby in this household come September time. Kinda scary and happy at the same time. This is a true blessing as its a complete surprise and totally the Lord that brought this to us.

He gives the barren woman a home, making her the joyus mother of children. Praise the LORD!

Psalm 113:9

Slight changes being made

So since we currently use Switched on Schoolhouse I don't really ever have any exciting things to share, Caleb does his work without me. So there's not any fun things going on, but I"m so looking forward to that changing and going back to making lesson plans and learning with him. Of course I'm not really sure how he'll like it because he's going to have to go back to *gasp* actually using his hand to WRITE things! Oh the horror!

One new thing in this homeschooling family of three is that this September we will be a family of four! Sooooo surprising that we have a 13 year old and are now pregnant again. The good Lord really knows how to keep things interesting...lol.

Now since I'm also in college classes I've chosen to take a leave of absence from classes for 90-days in hopes that my brain will be able to focus better, because I did horribly on my last 2 classes, one I have to take over and the last one was a passing grade but not one I'm happy with. I was just glad to learn I did not have to take it over. I just need to get my papers back in for my LOA to get approved. If I was really desperate I would be able to take a leave until September when the baby would be born, but that's just way too much time to be away. My focus is just cruddy though. Its like my brain is mush!

I really need to dig out my teachers planners for History, Health and Science(A beka) I love them and its what we are going back to. Caleb is currently doing history, science and health with SOS but as I mentioned in another post(I think) he can pass every assignment with 100% and the quizzes and tests he fails repeatedly! So then his overall grade is basically an F due to those. So I know its just not working the way it should be, he's not retaining things enough to remember for the testings.

For History I need to re-make the timeline we had hung up in the schoolroom(which will now become the babies room, or eventually will....lol) I need to find a better timeline, we had one with construction paper taped together. It took up a lot of space, so maybe something else will be easier. I think I saw a timeline on another HSing mom's blog that was super neat and seemed to take up a bit less space. I'm thinking it will help my son learn things better or maybe just remember better!

If anyone has any timeline suggestions feel free to let me know. Thanks for stopping by!

Emma

{Virtual Coffee}

Here we are another weekend upon us, I think the older I get the faster days/weeks/months goes by quickly. I'm a little late to be on the *Tuesday* part of VC but I'm here, sort of. After I get to rambling you will understand a bit better on why I'm slow this week.

All I have to drink is a 7-up, I don't think I've had any caffeine since Tuesday of this week. So I go through this insomnia bit, there can be days i'm up until 1-2am then back up at 4:30am or so. I end up taking naps but still. So on this last Tuesday around 1am I totally thought I was going to head to bed and I totally thought I was going to lost anything I had eaten that night. So there I am in the bathroom and decided to take a pregnancy test just so I could move on and just know I had some stomach flu. I had been nauseous off and on for some time before this date. So I take the test and am like well at least it will be one less thing to be thinking about. Low and behold I was looking at the test and was totally in shock and seriously thought I was seeing things. 

 I turned my laptop back on and uploaded the photo to post on a message board I'm on to find out if I was seeing things, if it was an evaporation line or what it was. And why in the world was the test line so much darker then the control line of the test.  Sure enough they confirmed that I wasn't seeing things. So there i was after 1am not able to sleep and just a bit icky feeling. Just. overall. SHOCKED. You might wonder why, well we have a 13 year old son, I was pregnant one other time after the 13 year old that resulted in a miscarriage. So for the past 10 years there's been no surprises or anything like that, until now. 

I made sure to buy another box of tests when I went grocery shopping on Tuesday and bought Clear blue easy and here it is, the pregnant words big as you please.

So slowly its sinking in, on Tuesday I also made an appointment to go to the Dr to find out as well. So 3 tests later I'm pregnant after 10 years and get to have a 14 year gap between my kiddos. I'm due September 22,2011. When I was pregnant with out 13 year old his due date was September 21, 1997 but he was born on September 4th 97. So we'll see. I think the good Lord wanted to keep me on my toes or something. I'm still nervous about miscarriage, but I'm hoping and praying that with this being a total surprise that its a keeper at that.

So for our coffee on Friday evening that's my exciting news.

Meet Me on Monday - January 24, 2011

So I came across this meme and decided to jump on in. I'm trying to get back into reconnecting with other homeschoolers, I had taken a break when we decided to use Switched on Schoolhouse. But we are not going to keep going with it. So I'm back in the homeschooling world.

1. What is your favorite kind of fudge?

Butterscotch, yummmmmm

2. Is there snow outside your window?

yes - more than I'd like as well. LOL

3. What is your favorite meal of the day?

Supper

4. Do you text on your cell phone?

yes, I go through streaks of how often. Depending on who I'm texting with. One of my good friends and I often text all day long, then other times none at all.

5. Waffles or pancakes?

pancakes all the way!! I'm such an oddball as well, I grew up with my mom putting butter and sugar on my pancakes, and that's the only way I eat them. French toast is what I use syrup on.

Check out others on Meet Me On Monday

Decisions, decisions

Here I am, trying to figure out just what we will be using for curriculum this fall. Currently my son is using Switched on Schoolhouse and Saxon Math. Let's just say I think both need to be changed, I know one thing for sure and that's that I am not going to go with SOS this next fall. Its clear that he's not retaining what he should be. So I know it will be back to books/textbooks/workbooks that kind of thing. Because its obvious he needs something more on that level. Even though he *loves* doing stuff on the computer. 

I have no problems with that if he was passing everything like he should be, but he's not so for now we'll keep with it, and I'm going to go through the curriculum I had bought b4 SOS and probably get something together for the rest of this year.  So those two piles of school books I have on our kitchen table behind the kiddo's computer is going to be drug out and lesson plans figured out. 

This out to be fun to get that and my class work together, I will get to learn to balance things, which I think will be easy after I get moving. Yes SOS freed up some to where I didn't need to make lesson plans, but the reality of that is then I had no clue what he was doing. I didn't get to his computer often enough to check things out. So in the end its just a waste of money and often time. At least there's a new desktop computer for him to use, and we have typing that he needs to be going back to, and if we switch to teaching textbooks for math he'll have a computer to use as well.

I honestly can't believe that I would *miss* making lesson plans up. I thought I'd be relieved that I didn't have to do that. But in the end I did miss it, might be an odd thing but its all good :D I just need to find some English/Language Arts that will work for us. Its the one thing we are the most behind on, I mean grade wise behind, its been a struggle since we started. There's just never been something that would fully work and help the kiddo learn. Well that and his reading comprehension. He of course is your typical *I don't like to read* boy. Granted there are plenty out there that love to read, I've just never been able to get him to enjoy it. Which is a bummer because I always loved reading, more casual reading and less school book reading but reading non the less.

So if anyone out there has suggestions feel free to leave them in comments section. We've tried a few things that just didn't work and others we might just have missed that were out there and would be a great fit. 

Ever have one of those days?

I think I have a annoying, yet quirky but lovable kiddo. I'm sure that sounds like I'm some horrible mother. I only say this, because this morning has been interesting, yet like every other morning with the kiddo. His little quirks can be annoying, simple little things really. The main one being he's always picking up the dogs, mainly Ginger, then bringing her to me. She's off doing something or laying where she wants to and he disturbs her. Its the one thing that is majorly annoying. Minor yes, but still annoying. I am always telling him to leave the dogs alone. Just how many times does one need to remind a child, a 13 year old kiddo at that, to just leave the dogs alone. Let them do what they were doing. But as I said he's still lovable, just quirky...lol

So that was what has went on since I drug my sorry butt out of my nice warm bed. Vegging in bed with my laptop. I've been out of the bed long enough to start Pioneer Woman's Cinnamon rolls, just waiting until noon to get finished. I get all fired up about baking then I decide to make these cinnamon rolls and then realize its a long time b4 the final results...lol. But they are SOOOOOOOOOOOOO yummy! So well worth the time. Of course my husband isn't all that excited, or rather he's being impatient and wanting goodies now instead of later. But I just have no ambition to make anything else. Might change my mind who knows.

 We ended up with 51 cinnamon rolls and a batch of chocolate chip bars. So the hubs should be set for a couple days for snacks! Ate a yummy supper of steak and potatoes. I so LOVE putting my steaks in to the crock pot, they fall apart when done and are just so easy to eat. I'm sure some people think that's "cheating" that if you knew how to make a steak you wouldn't need to do it that way. But ya know what, I could care less about that opinion...lol. My family loves it this way so we go with what works for us.

I've went through 2 crock pots before this one, because it never fails the inserts end up cracked to where it will slowly leak out of the bottom. Frustrating, I always make sure to not add any liquids to it when its hot, because we all know hot and cold aren't going to mix well when it comes to ceramic. If there's any liquid to add I do it at the beginning. Course I haven't any idea what I'd do if some would need to be added later. Ah live and learn, and learning is what I'm still doing.



I haven't been part of a blog hop in awhile so since I moved my blog I figured I should jump back into some blog hops! So if you might have been following me before when my blog was at http://www.emilylindphotographymn.com/wordpress and still want to keep up with me please follow me again. I have no desire to change blogs again, I had this one to begin with and decided to just come back with it. So I went through the process of exporting all posts from my wordpress one. Walla here I am!

I'll leave you with a snapshot of summer, because I'm ready for it to be here, anything but winter. This Minnesota weather the past couple days has been rough!

Well I think I rambled enough, I hadn't intended to ramble on a blog hop but I was already writing the post so decided to add the 2 instead of making a seperate post.

Leave me a comment and I'll follow back! Thanks for stopping by.

Emma