It's February and 70 degrees outside

WoW! This weather is incredible! It's 70 degrees outside in February. Can you imagine that!

Today, my oldest daughter, Mikayla is still sick with pneumonia. Mikayla is 13 yo. She has been sick for the past 8 days. I'm hoping she starts feeling better, and I will know when that happens when she starts fussing at her sisters and nagging me to take her to the mall! lol!

This coming Friday, Feb 13th, will be Bethany's last day in public school. We are pulling her out to homeschool her b/c she is having a very hard time adjusting to public school. For those who do not know, we have homeschooled our girls since Kindergarten. She is still having horrible stomach pains and having a hard time sleeping all night. The Dr's think this is anxiety driven and possibly IBS. She has undergone an ultrasound, hyde-a-scan, and an endoscopy but everything appeared normal. Her bile duct is spasming, and her gall bladder is functioning poorly, but not poorly enough to warrant surgery. So, we have decided to homeschool her again. I am discovering that public school may not be the best place for my girls to be. Schools have changed since I went. The teaching methods aren't the same. Here, the teachers do not lecture (teach lol), rather they have everything on power point with instructions for the students to copy in their notebooks. Some teachers actually read to the students...and I do not mean 1st graders, either. Teachers actually read to my 8th grader! Now, my girls were early readers and it behooves me to know the teachers read to them rather than having them read their own book reports. What is that all about? lol! Anyhoo, not really sold on public school, but two of my girls (the 5th & 8th grader) still likes it and doesn't want to go back to homeschooling. If they start coming home with attitudes then they may have to go back to homeschooling.

Me, Bebe, and Alana walked through the subdivision and played a bit of tennis on a dead end street. Now, my back is so sore! I guess it's not a good thing to play tennis after having back surgery, even if it's been a year. yikes! Mikayla stayed home since she still isn't feeling very well.

I just received news my Jcrew job will be ending on April 1st. but that is okay. Who knows....maybe I can go back to living my lazy, leisure days of old! Wouldn't that be nice? I could actually take a nap during the day. But, I imagine Alpine will find me another position very soon and I will feel obligated to take it. sigh.

Mike is working today. Firestone is having their Tire Super Sale today. He is very sick. I hate to see him go to work so sick. When I am sick, I am a big baby and lay on the couch all day. Men aren't made that way, or so it isn't with him. Even though he has sick days, he doesn't take them. He will have worked 9 days in a row before he has a day off. I don't know how he does it b/c he puts in 12-14 hour days. He is salary, so no overtime pay.

God has really blessed him. In December his store was behind in service and it looked like he wouldn't meet his profits. We prayed, and asked for God's blessing to bring the customers into his shop. God is GREAT! He answered our prayers and miraculously Mike was able to catch up on his profit, service, etc. I'm so thankful for His blessings! We are so undeserving of His blessings. His love still amazes me everyday!

Since Kayla still has pneumonia and her chest is still hurting her, we didn't go to church tonight and I am bored...bored..bored. There isn't anything on TV on Sundays. Boring.

I bought Suzanne Brockmanns, most recent novel, "Into the Dark", so I guess I will pull it out and read a bit. I bought the book, The Shack, but it's really hard on the heart! It's about a man who struggles with the kidnapping & death of his little girl. He is angry with God, and one day, someone knocks on "the shack's door" to minister to him...is it an angel? Don't know b/c I haven't finished it yet. I have only read the first chapter. lol! These types of books (death, kidnapping, etc) are really hard for me to read. So, I have to read snippets and read one or two chapters a day. Besides, as soon as I picked up the book to read it, Bethany starts reading it. I'm waiting patiently for her to finish it and I hope it's soon.

The girls are watching some kind of movie on ABC Family Channel. egads! If I see one more SpongeBob show, I think I will puke!

Back to reading now.....
toodles