this week

This is a busy week in my home.  I only have a few minutes, so bear with me.  I'll come back later hopefully to edit and add some pictures since I'm on my laptop and have no pictures on here.

Today is Melissa's birthday, she's 11 years old now.  Crap where did the time go?  I have to bake her a cake, she chose a strawberry one with purple icing, so I need to do it soon to have ready for tonight.

Scott is working double shifts all week, yes I mean 16 hour days on top of his 1 hour commute each way.  We won't see too much of him until Saturday, and then he'll likely spend the weekend sleeping off this week at work since this is his scheduled full weekend off.  We obviously are NOT making plans for the weekend that involve going anywhere major because he'll be too tired.

I'm 35 weeks pregnant as of today, and still baking away happily.  I go in Thursday for my regular prenatal appointment, and Scott has specially arranged to have the morning off so that he can take over with the kids instead of me taking them with me.  My appointments just go faster if I'm not taking them along, so he does that once in a while.  We will likely be starting weekly appointments at this point, as my last baby was born at 37 weeks gestation.  I'll also be asking about possibly inducing to make sure I can actually make it to the hospital on time with Scott's commute time.  I am concerned that this time will be faster than my last birth (I was in labor a total 1 1/2 hours last time around, we were lucky that I was already at the hospital for hypertension to decide if they were going to induce me right then or wait for the next day to do it when that started) and that my dear daddy-to-be will possibly miss the birth of our last child (and I possibly not get to the hospital and end up with an unplanned unassisted homebirth, I don't want to do that thankyouverymuch).

Kim started Horizons math today.  I got her book 2 of second grade math, figuring that it would be about her level.  I've heard that Horizons is about a year ahead, and she's ahead in math so right on level would be good for her.  Yup, too easy.  Oh well, I used the AOP sale they do every April to get it so it was only $15 and free shipping.  She can zip through it at her speed and we'll teach whatever she doesn't know already, and I'll call it "adjusting to a new curriculum style and layout with review" before she starts the third grade books I plan to buy this upcoming weekend for her to do next.  Problem solved.

Full moon/ blood moon/ lunar eclipse tonight.  I'm hoping to stay up and get some pictures of it that I can share with the girls tomorrow and then set up an experiment with a flashlight and some balls to simulate an eclipse so we can talk about why and how it happens.  However, if I can't stay awake (which I know is possible at this stage of pregnancy) I know that I'll find a lot of pictures online for this.  So that is on my list for science lessons this week.

We started an Ohio study to meet the state history requirements for our state this year.  Just covering the basic information on the state at this point, then we'll dig in and learn historical events, people, places, etc. as we go along.  This study is going to last until Nathaniel is born, and we're doing a lapbook to go with it.  I have no clue how much is going to end up being covered, but it will be enough to meet the state requirements easily.

I think that covers it for now.  So now I shall go bake a cake and figure out supper for tonight.