10 Homeschooled Celebrities

This is so cool! I found it thru the HSLDA.

10 Homeschooled Celebrities - check it out~~ it's from CNN...

Story Highlights

• Inventor of the telephone was homeschooled until his mother went deaf
• Poet Robert Frost got physically ill at the thought of going to school
• President Woodrow Wilson didn't learn to read until age 12
• Photographer Ansel Adams exhibited "undisguised contempt" for teachers

I do love homeschooling my girls! The days have their challenges... like all our days. I like sharing the highs and lows in these fleeting years. I love learning together because there is so very much to learn.

I'm so very thankful to have my Hubbie's full support. He is doubles my joy and halves my burdens.

This week we've traveled the Great Lakes with Paddle to the Sea, we've seen China with Marco Polo. We've jumped into multiplying 2&5&3&10s as well as adding and subtracting to 10 :) We walked not making a sound to watch a otter. For a first we've site read piano music! Wow! We've watch a nest of Tommy Titmouse birds and listened to the little one chirp. We've watched Robin Redbreast building a nest with the neighbors trailings from a late night wrap. We think we may have seen an American Kestral. We're reading more and more words.

Tomorrow we'll dive right back in!! I'm thankful!! Challenged and thankful!! Grace! ss

Birdhouse Not for Rent

For years our bird house has been spurned by all birds. We'd only found spiders where we wanted a little family!

We are thrilled to have renters!

Tommy Titmouse & Tammi are diligently caring for their brood. We found the little ones chirping on 4/15. Mom and dad have been feeding the often running from the front yard feeders to the back yard nest.

Here's their specs:
Tufted Titmouse
Clutch: 3-9 Eggs
Incubation: 12-14 Days
Nestling: 15-16 Days (We found them on the 15th and 12 days would be the 27th today!!)

Playing outside today the girls said the birds have gone. Oh, I do hope not yet!! Maple has given the birds and especially hard time barking endless as they come and go. Tommy has played hide and seek leading Maple around and around the tree before he sneaks into the house!

I hope they all escape Maple and we need to keep our watch up! Birding!! Grace! ss

Herb

I'm thrilled with my little herb garden. Each item is marked with a rock from our travels!! How fun!! The girls have picked up rock from all over! Some of these we took the flight with us from Colorado! I have yet to add dill.

Maple has enjoyed my garden as well... she pulled up all my silver leaves for decoration and I think she ate the marigolds. At least she did not eat the herbs but she does like to land in my rosemary!!

9 More months (oops)... Only 8 More months...

Well... I guess I am sending this e-mail out into the black hole of the Internet. I decided to do a test and see how long it would take for someone to remind me that I had forgotten to send out my monthly notice for Christmas. Since no one reminded me I figure I will discontinue it but then after figuring and re-figuring I figured I would not get into a pity party over the fact that I am as busy as the next person and can't stop to send even a two sentence e-mail to all my friends that Christmas is just around the corner.

My daughter's are growing up rapidly and so I thought I would send out a little tribute to their uniqueness (see the attached photos).

M had her second piano recital and then the other night while M was at an activity I took L out for a night on the town with dad doing whatever she wanted. We ended up hitting all the pet stores in town and she wanted a few pictures with some of the animals.

Don't forget to hug your kids... My aunt Shirley passed away this past Friday. She retired in June with big plans for retirement only to discover she had cancer. She fought diligently for five months until she succummed this last week. We will miss her!

Don't forget the reason for the season... He made the sunrises and the sunsets! He knows how many we have remaining to live.

Just an FYI... I am also thankful for plastic spoons and rubber gloves.

TTFN,
KjS

Best Kiss Ever Selling Books??

My husband was giving away kisses last night!!! He claimed them the best kiss ever!!!

I had to scold him!!! He did not give me one!!!!

Thanks to Hubbie I'm covered up in smiles from the book sale last night!!! He gave away coconut kisses and made all our books on sale in my absence!!! Ha!! I was so enjoying shopping!! He had many shoppers just look because of his sale!!! I think all the kids enjoyed the kisses most asking if they were really free :)

I found several AO books and sold enough to more than cover what I found. Now I can get some books I've not had funds for. The girls shopped and made friends. Ladybug is carrying around her new chair and Lovebug cannot put down her new book.

Hubbie was SO my hero. We were locked out of the light closet last night and I volunteered him to help. Without a hiccup he headed right out to the church at like 10:30 last night to get the lights out. HUGE THANKS Hubie!!!! You are the best and I'll give you all my kisses!!! You may owe me chocolate!!! :)

Grace!! ss

RealSimple NOT

RealSimple just got real complicated.


I'll NEVER again buy their magazine. I'm returning a portion of the May '09 mag. I'll throw away each and every one.


Marriage: Husband & Wife. God said for life.


Grace! ss

Cream Cheese Neimans

I'm on a cream cheese hunt!! It is just a special treat for the girls. We've had a total exam week! We've climbed the mountain and looked back to see where we've been. Here's our sweetness at the peak. Cream Cheese Neimans!!




Cream Cheese Filling

• 1 Cream Cheese 8oz
• 1/2c Sugar
• 1 egg

Mix til smooth



Neiman's Cookie Dough - My recipe dates back to Shelly Kelton in June of 1996!!

• 2 eggs
• 1c butter
• 1c sugar
• 1c brown sugar
• 2c flour
• 2.5c blended oats, mostly I use whole!!
• 1t soda
• 1t salt
• 1t baking powder
• 1t vanilla
• 4 oz grated chocolate, this is rarely on hand
• 12 oz chocolate chips
• 1c nuts

Cream butter & sugars. Combine dry then add to butter. Finally add chocolate nuts. Drop spoon fulls & Bake at 375° for 10 minutes. (Angela... this is for you!!!)

And to make the Cream Cheese Neimans....

1/2 cookie dough on bottom of pan, cover w/ cream cheese, crumble remain dough to cover.

Bake 350° for 35-40 minutes. Cool 30 then Cool in freeze 30. (Or cool in fridge 2 hours.)




Yumm! Thanks Janice!
Grace! ss

Exams AO1

AO1 Term 2
Exams

This is Ladybugs exams. What really sinks in?~ This is just looking back to what she can see.

4/2/09

Parables of Nature by Margaret Gatty

Waiting

There was a cricket that wouldn’t wait because he wanted to hop as high as a grasshopper. So he was in a corner of a house and he sat by the fire. What happened was the cricket… He sat in a corner by the fire and he cricked and cricked and cricked. That he wanted to… His children and he… The grasshopper came and tried to teach him but he would not listen.


Training and Restraining

There was this little flower and it got swept away by the west wind. And so they learned was that they should not be like. I should not be like the west wind because it swept away all the little flowers that the gardener liked. So the little flowers… There was this little boy coming and he went to see the flowers and they were not there. The End.



James Herroit’s Treasury of Inspirational Stories for Children

Bonny’s Big Day
Mr. Skipton, Bonny, Dolly

What happened was Bonny got to go to the family pet fair. And so Bonny won the family pet fair.

James Herriot he went to the barn. The other horse had an old nail in its foot. Dolly got a nail in her foot. What happened was Bonny won the family pet fair.


The Aesop for Children

The Donkey and the Salt

What happened was there was a donkey. There was a man and he drove his donkey to his house. The donkey laid down in the water and lost some salt. They went back to the sea seashore and got some more salt. Then he sat in the water. The man got so angry he drove him back to the seashore. He got some sponges and put them in the baskets. Then the donkey laid down in the water again. He got ten more weights of water in the sponges. The End.

The donkey learned the lesson that he should not lay down in the water with sponges because he’ll way ten weight more.

Exams AO3

AO3 Term 2
Exams

We have 3 terms in our year. At the end of a term we look back. Here's our walk thru just a bit of Lovebug's exam thru her eyes.

4/1/09

Story of Inventions by Michael J. Mc Hugh & Frank P. Bachman

Henry Bessmer made steel. It took 3 ½ years to make. He was born in London in 1830. He was a boy. He was a young teenage boy.

John Gutenberg made his very very first Bible. He made the first press too. In Gutenberg’s time the animals cost 25 cents to 5 dollars. A sheep was .25. A cow cost 2 dollars and a horse was $5. He was born in Germany and he lived from 1400 to 1468. During his time the poor had to have block Bibles. There were many books the rich got that have very pretty boarders on the edges for lots and lots of money.

He invented a Bible that had very pretty boarder edges and for some reason his did not cost so much like the rich’s Bible did.

He made little letters that could be pressed onto paper. He tried one mental and it was too soft. It squished. The second metal he tried, iron, and that too was soft and hard. The next time he tried it was lead. It was too too hard and when straight thru the paper. The good thing about it was he did not give up. Like many other people wanted him to.

He lost one of his people. He had three who helped him and one died. Now he had to work with two and was loosing money on his invention.

There was one man who was the money keeper. He gave John some money and had not gotten any back. He was a greedy man. When John Gutenberg finished some of his Bibles, the man saw a great time for his payback. He took all the molds and threw John Gutenberg out. But the church heard he was in trouble. He had helped the church and they called him in. When they heard he had been thrown out they rescued him and gave him their dress, clothing and a place in the church. Soon John Gutenberg got sick and died that year. He was buried at that church. He had invented the first printing press.

The End.

4/3/09

Parables from Nature by Margaret Gatty

Gifts

There were some gardens and they were put along a path in the garden. There were many turnips and carrots. The Mr. Carrot complained that he was orange and he wanted to become round. The turnips are round and are purple and white. The carrots have to go down deep in the soil with their point ends with so many roots on them. They get eaten by little children like me. He wanted to be a turnip that is purple and white. He was complaining about that. The turnip started teasing him that he should start trying to get round. The carrot tried to get round. Then the beets whispered to each other of what they heard and when they heard they were talking about starting to get round. Oowwww… Why are they talking about that. Don’t they know they are different from each other. They should be like us and not fight like they always do.

The gardner finally came and pulled the carrot up. He saw the carrot was bumpy in the middle. He was about to throw it away and remembered that the cook was always needed a carrot. So he took it and she chopped him up.

The lesson is to be glad of your own self and not to be greedy of others.

This Country of Ours by H E Marshall

Pocahontas

Pocahontas was a girl and she was an Indian. She saved John Smith from being killed. She married and Englishman and she went to England. Her father was happy she married an Englishman. He made peace for a very long time. His name was Powhatan. When she went to England she saw John Smith. He had to go back to England because some gun powder blew up. When Pocahontas saw John Smith she was very very happy. She said she had believed he was dead. But when she heard that he was not going to call her Pocahontas but Princess in stead, she was very hurt.

She was born in Virginia. She died in 1617.

One Hour

This is my challenge!! 1 Hour!!

I did it today.... One hour to read. I also want to start pulling in Lovebug to read her Bible on her own. I'm not having her reading to me but I want her to read to enjoy God's word on her own!!

Here's my reading list!

• Raising Your Spirited Child by Mary Sheddy Kurcinka (I've been told I need to read it! Ha! Thanks Kathy!)
• Recovery from Cancer by Elaine Nussabum, I came across this in my health study. Hubbie's Aunt Shirley Hoyer is struggling w/ cancer.

I'm reading these with the CMSeries Yahoo list. I need the challenge and accountability to read the concepts that underguird our AO education. These books are both available online... Here's the Original Homeschool Series.

• A Philosophy of Education Charolette Mason vol 6
• Home Education Charolette Mason vol 1

Reading by Grace! ss

The Cost of Stitches

We have been waiting for the hospital bill and it has come...

The going rate is just under 2k! This was a simple ER visit... there were no tests or additional treatments. They used a topical to deaden for stitches and then a shot to make sure it she would not feel it. That's about $240 per stitch!!!

She did give a very hard time to the PA who gave her the stitches. I did not see an additional cost for that!!! Oh, I'll yet have to track down the detail. I only have one grand number!!

Thankfully we do have insurance. We have been under better insurance.. we've even been double insured... alas now we'll just be thankful for insurance!! I must say we have so used this insurance with all Hubbie's surgeries in '07!! So all in all we had lots to be thankful for!

Here's the low down!!!

Blue Cross adjusted the bill down 38%
Blue Cross paid only 23%
And the final 39% is up to us to cover

I do hope this is the only bill!!! There's both facility and physician charges and we saw no one else!! So!!

I'm so thankful Lovebug is healing!!! Grace ! ss

St. Patrick's Day! Holly Then... Maple 6 months

On this beautiful day we headed out to find our own clover. To think of Patrick explaining the Father, Son & Holy Spirit with the clover. As we walked in the sunshine I thought back two years.... to our last walk with Holly we were on a clover hunt then too... I gently mentioned it to the girls as we rounded that same corner with the fenced dogs barking a fit.

We've been teaching Maple to walk with with us, leash tight. We've watch many of the Ceasar Milan shows. She's is not allowed to bark at other dogs. We shush and quiet her and turn her attention away from them. We're trying to train her to really pay us her attention. Thereby the barkers get no attention. She's doing great!!!

Maple is so growing up! She's now 6 months old. She's lost her puppy appearance. She totally adores the girls. She barely notices me and Hubbie. She'll cry for the girls if they get too far ahead when we walk. She look back countless times if they follow. Maple always want to know where HER girls are!! Maple has been camping and oh, that was eventful!!

In contrast Holly was our dog. She did not have Maple's affection for the girls. Holly came when we called. Maple comes for the girls when they lay down! Here's a last photo of Holly in '07!

That was in 2007 and was first of a hard year. Hubbie wrote it all out in his Roller Coaster Ride.

This is also in sweet memory of Holly!!!

Barking in Heaven & Sweet Comfort Grace! ss

A Lovely Park Day

Spring is here!! Actually it is up to 82°!! That's on the toasty side for my spring.

We started our morning with math and headed out the door! I wish it happened that quick... actually we each grabbed a bite for breakfast and packed a lunch for the park, girls hair had to be done, I grabed my knitting (I forgot last time!!), the pod came with us... and we were on our way by 10:20..

We did a Spanish lesson heading to the park... counting to a million in Spanish! This lesson on the pod was another from the Learn Spanish Survival Guide. I've also tracked down a written lesson on counting. I really like these lessons!!!!

Ok! I have proof I'm learning!! This past weekend shopping for hubbie... I heard men discussing pants sizes in Spanish... and I understood the numbers!!! This week we've been playing numbers in the car for M&Ms!! If they can say the number & a color in Spanish... they get an M!!! Ladybug is hesitant... Lovebug is catching on!!

On to the park! I set my knitting aside for a crochet lesson!!! Molly & Kathy were my tutors... Look I've even started!! I made a mistake right in the green... but I'm hoping you cannot find it!! Maybe they have a pattern???? Right now I've just following what they've said!!

All in all we so enjoy our park days!!! This is a lovely time of year to be out an about. I'm thankful for friend along the path!!! God is good!!

Grace! ss

A visit to the doctor... for my pc

Our pc ailment: Tedious slow run time, crashing java, internet explorer often crashes on opening, slow harddrive access

Our treatment: Norton is up and current, defrag run, internet explorer reinstalled

A visit & report w/ the Dr. We hit Computer Time and David was our Dr. He's an old LT friend of Hubbie. (If you go his way... tell him we sent ya!)

#1 Norton is not enough!! Here's what we now have Malware bytes... he found like 25 things Norton missed... http://www.malwarebytes.org/

#2 Java was uninstalled & reinstalled... we'll see how that goes.

#3 We've added 1gig of ram... now we have 2gig... this was needed to surf and do anything else

#4 Recommended for kidos... K9 Web Protection is a free Internet filtering and control solution for the home. This also has tracking so you can see what's been sought for.... We are heading into this zone and evaluating options....

#5 Backups! Right now I'm shooting for 2 backups. One of my pics & videos that's in a safe place. Another is setting up to use an automatic backup system. SyncBack is what they recommended. It only updates the changes... Also to note, look for the free version.

That's about it. Not to run clean & stay out of the dr!! Grace! ss

Interview with my Girls 6 & 9

1. What is something mom always says to you?
L- Ladybug- Lose Sugar
M- Lovebug- Take your hair out of your mouth.

2. What makes mom happy?
L I don't know. When I do right things.
M Good attitudes.

3. What makes mom sad?
L When I disobey
M Disobedience

4. How does your mom make you laugh?
L When mommy does funny things.
M Tickling.

5. What was your mom like as a child?
L I don't know. Helpful.
M I don't remember.

6. How old is your mom?
L Can you tell me? Quit! Mama! 37.
M 62

7. How tall is your mom?
L I don't know. Taller than me.
M I don't know. 1 foot.

8. What is her favorite thing to do?
L Be on the computer.
M School with me.

9. What does your mom do when you're not around?
L Do a baby sitter.
M She plays the computer.

10. If your mom becomes famous, what will it be for?
L I don't know. A child.. playing games.
M Piano, no, singing.

11. What is your mom really good at?
L Schooling.
M Helping

12. What is your mom not very good at?
L Training little puppy.
M Piano

13. What does your mom do for her job?
L Nothing. Homeschools.
M Take care of me.

14. What is your mom's favorite food?
L Mushrooms
M Chocolate

15. What makes you proud of your mom?
L Playing the piano when I go to bed.
M My hugs.

16. If your mom were a cartoon character, who would she be?
L Nothing.
M That I have no idea... Charlotte Mason.

17. What do you and your mom do together?
L Play games and have fun.
M Play games. Do silly stuff.

18. How are you and your mom the same?
L We're not the same.
M We're not the same.

19. How are you and your mom different?
L I don't know. She has shorter hair than me.
M Our hair color. Our eye color.

20. How do you know your mom loves you?
L She kisses and hugs me when she goes somewhere.
M She cooks dinner for me. She wants to stay home with me and school me instead of sending me away. She disciplines me, that's a good one.

21. What does your mom like most about your dad?
L I don't know. That he loves Jesus.
M He works for her.. her family, her girls...

22. Where is your mom's favorite place to go?
L I don't know. The mall.
M Home.

The girls answers are totally independent!!

Stitches 2 Weeks in Daffodils

We waited until the stitches were out to head to the daffodils at Mrs Lee's!!! Healing!! We are 2 weeks from the head on collision!!!

Lovebug is back at basketball with her final practice was week! She did take a ball hitting her in the back of the head... and we had no tears or trauma. We did have one trauma event when Daddy kicking balls to the top of the gym... kicked it right into Lovebugs face, front on. OUCH!! Tears!!! by God's grace it was a big soft bouncy ball and the impact did not injure her.

Ok... here's the healing shot... much better from last week...

She's doing great! We've started using the Maderma on her several times a day. We also use VitE & an another scar treatment... The green around her eyes from the bruise has gone.

I'm thankful God knits us back together! It is amazing how fast she's healed!!

God be praised!! Grace! ss

Only 10 more months...

Dudes and Dudettes,
I know that you probably thought that I forgot to do my monthly reminder but I didn't. Actually I have been doing training today and yesterday. Today I was at a power plant teaching how to run our silo systems and so I had to work on a PowerPoint presentation until late into the night last night. I know... I know... so why did you wait until the last minute to put together your PowerPoint? It was unavoidable... I was doing other things!! Actually I had some deadlines that I had to meet before I could leave to go up to the power plants and those took priority and then I still had to do the PowerPoint and etc goes the excuses.

Wasn't it like just yesterday that I said "Only 11 more months" seems like it. 10 MONTHS TILL CHRISTMAS!!

A cool thing happened to me yesterday. For all the training that I am doing I needed a laser pointer. A long time ago at one of our camping trips we went to an astronomy dealy at the campgrounds where they brought in a guy, dude, star person, something like that... and he had this laser pointer. I was a little sceptical of it but when he pointed it into the sky you could see the laser not just a dot on the stars... actually you could not see the dot on the stars but you could see the laser trail up into the stars. The laser was green and I thought that was cool he could point out the constellations with the greatest of ease.

I have never been able to see the constellations, I mean I have trouble with dot to dot let alone looking up at the stars and seeing someone point and say oh yeah check out Leo the Lion... I see Orion's belt... Woooo Whoooo. Yeah I would get all excited because I think that is what you are supposed to do but I have never seen the lion in the stars or anything of Orion other than his belt. Dragon what dragon? But with his green laser that I think he could communicate with aliens with he was able to point out many constellations and I could see them. I can't remember anything about the constellations but it was cool looking at them with his laser.

Forward to present day. I needed a laser and I have always been annoyed when I have been in a presentation that the presenter uses a laser pointer and they point it at the screen and hit the item that they are pointing out and then their hand is not steady enough to keep the dot in one place and it ends up jumping all around the screen and... did I say that this annoys me?

Well I was with another engineer who was showing me the material that I need to cover and he was using a laser point (red) and it was not jumping all over the screen. He let me look at it and told me to get myself one if I was going to be covering all this training material as much as it looks like I will be doing. It was heavy but the size of a pen. When you held the weight evenly balanced in your hand it did not "jitter" no matter how far away you were pointing it.

I determined I would get the heaviest one I could find that would reasonably still fit in my hand and not cost the company too much.

Ran by Radio Shack last night on the way home from work and looked at the vast array of lasers that they carry, they had two. They had a red one and a green one. The green was much better weighted and suited my purpose better, the box also said it was 11X brighter than the red ones and could shine 4X's as far as a red one up to two miles. I can't think of a time that I will need to be two miles from the slide show that I am presenting... well unless I wanted to point out the constellations... except I can't remember where they are... I guess I can point out Orion's belt to someone.

I asked the sales dude if I could take the demo unit outside and see if I could show him Orion's belt and so we went outside and wouldn't you know you could see the dot in the tops of the trees but you could not see the beam itself. Humpf! I got it because it was a better weight and went home. Got home and went into the back yard where it was dark and wouldn't you know it you can see the beam and it looks like it shines about 2 miles too but I would not want the job of qualifying that specification. How would you know if the object in the sky was really two miles up? (Little Aggie humor... if those of you who are out of state don't get it... sorry. If those of you who are in state don't get it I'll bet you went to Texas A&M, I graduated from LeTourneau University.)

Anyway this e-mail has progressed once again to a length I did not intend, but not two miles. Too much detail again. I took a picture of the silo I was training on today and if you hit my facebook page you can see it.

Besides I really liked both lasers since they were red and green and that reminded me that I needed to send out this e-mail to remind all ya'll that Christmas is like only 10 months away. Don't forget the reason for the season, Jesus Birth! TTFN!

I wonder if my laser can hit Santa as he is flying through the sky? Wonder if I would get anything if I shot down Rudolph...

Till next month... Save the green M&M's for me.

KjS

Homeschool Meme

Finally... Here's a meme I tracked down!!! One I'll enjoy. I'd like to hear more your homeschooling!!

Homeschool books I actually enjoyed reading:
Children of the New Forrest, Men of Iron, can I say all of our Ambleside books!! Is that not fair!?! Ok right now I love... Marco Polo, The Story of Inventions, Pilgrim's Progress, This Country of Ours... and so many more!!! I'm getting educated! :)

Resources I won't live without:
AmblesideOnline.com & the Internet & my Ipod (for Spanish, Hymns, Folk songs, Math songs, SSRW... ) & buying used books online!

Resources you wish you had never bought:
Sonlight (I need to box to sell it SL K,1,2) & Math U See (we yet use the blocks) & some old Brit Lit book from garage sales!!! Ha! I need to clear that book shelf room!

Resources you enjoyed last year:
The Little Duke & Understood Betsy!!! AO2

Resources you're be using this year:
Primary Grade Challenge Math I just got this and tonight we worked with Hubbie on the Einstein level! He was impressed :)
AO3 & AO1, IPOD for Spanish & Hymn & Folk Songs... Spanish Tutor...
MEP Math our Free math program... download & print!! We're 2 years into it!

Catalogs you enjoy reading:
None... too many ads & don't want to buy them... the closest thing I enjoy is the CM Carnivals... but that takes lots of surfing...

One homeschooling website you use regularly:
AmblesideOnline.com

Enjoy!! Grace! ss

Here's where I found the meme http://lastthingonmymind.blogspot.com/2006/08/homeschool-meme.html

Cherry Chocolate Truffle Cake

Cherry Chocolate Truffle Cake- Yum! We enjoyed this with the girls adopted brother Stephan an his friends.

• 1 Chocolate Cake Mix
• 1 of 2 Cherry Pie Fillings
• 4 Eggs beaten
• 1/2t Almond
• 2t Amaretto liquor
• (I used vanilla & cherry flavorings..)

Mix above items & pour 1/3 into fluted bunt pan. Make tunnel for filling of 2nd can cherry pie filling using only the cherries. Cover w/ remainder of batter.

Bake 50 minutes at 350°.

Cool & ice w/ melted 3 semisweet squares & 3T butter. Top with white marchiano cherries & chocolate curls.

Recipe from MaryJo 2/21/09... Big Thanks! Grace! ss

Stitches 1 Week

Friday! It has been one week since Lovebug ran head to head with a boy. He got the goose egg... she got 8 stitches. His goose egg did bother him at night for 2 days!

Two days ago she got the stitches out. God paved that way for her. We headed again to the ER. She'd been counting the days... 5... with dread for our return. She was scared. We reassured and prayed and encouraged her... the hard part was last Friday and that was past.

She carried her raccoon, "Stitches." The coon also has 8 stitches.

Finally, we were called back to removed the stitches... this was the same entry room Hubbie came thru in 2007... He came with us. The lady behind the desk put on her gloves and pulled the tools to get the stitches out. With scissors in hand she tried on that first stitch on Lovebug's forehead...

In walked another gal.... she said "You don't like to remove stitches... Let me!" She immediately pulled another tool out & cut & removed the first 6 stitches... Lovebug bled a little and these last 2 were just beside her eye... this was the hard part! Come on... let's get done... just 2 more. Finally, they were all out. Done!

Looking back I think that gal had angle wings!!! She came right in at just the right time!! God had paved the way!

So now we are healing! We're using the bacitraicm and are rotating in Vit E & Maderma.

We're treating her 4xs a day. I'm glad she's home we can do this!

She grounded for a week from basketball! The girls last game is next Saturday. I hope she can safely play!!! She's done well on the sidelines cheering for her team and her sister.

Our dentist looked at the stitches and said they were small and placed well... and a really good job. That was so very good to hear!!! In hind sight I wish I'd gotten a good pic of just the stitches... but it hurt too much to take a pic.

Finally here's us and Lovebug holding Stitches with her own stitches out!!

Healing by God's Grace!! ss