A new view

My daughter Sophie is having an awesome day! She is the proud owner of her first pair of glasses. When we received the call this morning that the glasses were at the office ready to be picked up she squealed in delight.

The glasses are perfect pink with glitter hearts. She hasn't taken them off and has spoken to everyone around her about them. I am so happy for her. She is proud of her glasses, confident in them, and not fighting us about wearing or needing them. The exact opposite of how I was when I was wearing glasses at her age.

After picking up her new fabulous glasses we went over to the library and signed up for cards. It is the same library I went to as a child and I was happy to see it hadn't changed much. Sophie and Lola played on the computers and then the girls picked out books, I picked up some homeschooling books and a few books on cd and we were on our way. Lola mentioned several times how much she loved the library.

Update on motor home: Ryan took it out the one day to get the title and we had an issue with the serpentine belts. He replaced both and its back to being practically perfect. We also mapped out our trip and had a wake up call about gas money. In no way will we have enough money (this winter) to make it all the way to the redwoods and back. Plus head to Florida with my family and then to see Ryan's mom.

Also a discussion that is happening every day: what about my Halloween party?!

I know I know. Its just Halloween. But in my world- ITS HALLOWEEN!!! I love our annual Halloween party. Yes I could survive missing it this year, but I don't want to survive- I want to live my life my way.

So now we are thinking about having our party early, and then heading to South Dakota. There is so much to do there. Lots. I think it will be a fantastic adventure for our first trip in our motor home. Maybe spend two weeks there and then head back. Which means we might be home for Thanksgiving. And definitely home for a family wedding, that Sophie will be a flower girl in. Then we will stay home until my sweet friend Stephanie has her baby. After that we'll leave for Florida with my family, then spend a week or more with Ryan's mom.

Pulling out seeds to count.

Couting seeds by tens.

 

Homeschooling is fantastic. The other day we estimated how many pumpkin seeds were in a pumpkin, and then counted all of them by tens. Sophie guessed 600, Lola guess 100, and in the end there were 540. Learning with pumpkins, how fun.


In fact as of right now our lives in general are fantastic.