Fishin' for Chicken

B#7 found his brother's fish net and decided to go catch some chickens with it. Life would be kinda boring without him around:)

First Day of School

Well, Friday was our first day of school. Already I can see that changes need to be made to the daily schedule that I made for us. We started way too late to get it all in so tomorrow we will start earlier. We are trying a different curriculum this year and so far the kids seem to be liking it, at least B#3. She was wanting more geography and history. To end up the day we made "bugs on a log". I thought this version was much yummier than the usual celery, raisin, and peanutbutter. We used pretzel rods, m&ms and peanut butter. B#2 broke out the Nutella and that was even better than peanut butter. If you aren't familiar with Nutella you really should try it. You can find it near the peanut butter at the grocery store.

What is it and what should I do with it?

Yesterday for B#3's birthday we girls had a girls day out, along with baby of course. While we were at one of the fabric stores in town I spotted this brown thing. I have no idea what it is but I liked it so I decided to ask one of the ladies who works there what they were going to do with it. She told me I could take it if I wanted it and even had some guys load it into my van for me. Good thing I have this huge van:) Of course B#1 thinks that most of the things that I like should be food for our wood stove but I like it. So now my quandry is..."what should I do with it?" The shelves are slanted so it wouldn't work as a book case unless I lay books down on it so you can see the fronts. I thought I could pound out the small wooden pieces that split up the shelves but again...what is my goal? So I thought I would ask for suggestions from my readers and see what we can come up with. Leave me a comment or just plain email me if you have my address. I can't wait to hear some great suggestions.