just had to share what the kiddos are up to

mrK is washing dishes. all his own idea. hw helped me load the dishwasher and then decided to hand wash the dishes that didn't fit.

missO is pretending school. i peeked in on her on she has all the letters written on her chalkboard in cursive. now that mrK has finished with the dishes hes going to go play too. i'm glad because missO was kinda lonely playing by herself.

i'm so psyched about our new house. we moved out of our ghetto-ass neighborhood and into a better one. we now have huge bedrooms so all the kids stuff can all live in their room...which i think will make for a better learning environment. they can proceed from one interest to another with a better flow.

at our previous place the arts and crafts were segregated to the dining room but all the toys and things were in their room and the books were all in a different room.

and the bedrooms here (ours and theirs) have room enough for our bookshelves so we'll have a quiet reading place upstairs in the bedrooms while the husband and his friends play their music and video games downstairs.

since we've moved i'm starting to actively de-clutter again too. an interesting challenge in my pregnant state since i can't move things about or lift as much as i normally could.

the decluttering is in preparation for treasuremapping time.

my thoughts on the octuplet mom

just sick of hearing everybody bash on her....
let's see she's raising her kids on disability payments and foodstamps and thats bad because why? from what i understand qualifying for disability precludes holding down a paying job, right? so its not like she can just go out and get a job. and in this economy? whos gonna hire somebody with fourteen kids? think of the sick days just to take kids to the dr.
also she decided to have eight more when she already had 6. ands thats bad because why? if she had decided to foster or adopt we'd be singing her praises and talking about what a great sacrifice she has made...and the gov'nt would be be giving her even more benefits. just because these are her biological kids does not make it any less of a sacrifice. she said in an article i read that shes basically putting her life on hold to raise these kids. not even dating or working just being there for the kids. is that something to bash her for?
its just another example of how little our society values motherhood. this is important work that shes doing.

well we have excitement!

miss o is now volunteering with a horse rescue group. yesterday was the first day she went and she was actually able to ride. she also helped with grooming.

i'm looking into getting her involved in a community theatre group as well. she insists she wants nothing to do with the stage but i really think she would enjoy helpin behind the scenes.

we're continuing our weekly library trips and the picks are branching out just a bit. i'm being a little more active in picking stuff out that i think/hope se might be interested in too. this week i left mr k at home but miss o picked out a book about hat making for the both of them.

i am really digging interlibrary loan. i have read so many books about birth and midwifery. i just finished PUSHED and it was so amazing. So glad i'm not planning a hospital birth.

i'm thinking about volunteering myself as a doula. haven't talked to anybody about it and don't know how it would work out w/ my paying job but it would definately get me involved in birth work.

anyways guesss thats it for now....