New Series...so I thought

Upon suggestion from a friend, I told Jacob that we would begin reading the Percy Jackson series of books.  Do you know what he told me?  Oh yeah, I have already read 2 of them.    Ok so he has read a couple of the books in the series.  What will it hurt to read them over?  Now I think I want to read it with him...That way I can keep up and be able to ask him questions about the chapters.

Not only will we be starting book one today we are also working on fractions review and watching a weather video (its from the eyewitness series) and working through a weather unit study.

So tonight around 4:40 I get a phone call while I was doing dishes and didn't know the phone was ringing.  After I finish I listen to the voicemail and it is Vanderbilt's TrialNet

 study calling with Emily's test results.  That's odd!?!?!?  I always get a letter in the mail, not a phone call.  So I try to call back and I can't find the person who called me in the first place.  Nevermind, I knew the person directing the study.  I emailed her and within 3 min I had the phone call.  Not the results I was expecting though...
Emily tested positive for one of the 3 antibodies.  The GAD65.  Oddly enough all the other kids have been tested and they were all negative!  Yet, I have 2 children on insulin pumps with Type 1 diabetes!!!  Now I have one that is positive for the antibody and all we can do is wait for the 2nd blood draw on the 13th of December.

So tonight around 4:40 I get a phone call while I was doing dishes and didn't know the phone was ringing.  After I finish I listen to the voicemail and it is Vanderbilt's TrialNet

 study calling with Emily's test results.  That's odd!?!?!?  I always get a letter in the mail, not a phone call.  So I try to call back and I can't find the person who called me in the first place.  Nevermind, I knew the person directing the study.  I emailed her and within 3 min I had the phone call.  Not the results I was expecting though...
Emily tested positive for one of the 3 antibodies.  The GAD65.  Oddly enough all the other kids have been tested and they were all negative!  Yet, I have 2 children on insulin pumps with Type 1 diabetes!!!  Now I have one that is positive for the antibody and all we can do is wait for the 2nd blood draw on the 13th of December.

Turkey day is over...

Now that the turkey is dead and gone...I am so glad!

We had 2 dinners this season.  It was hard to do the carbs for the first dinner b/c there were so many people and hard to keep track of what the kids were eating and drinking.  Jesse snuck a regular root beer bottle (IBC) without me knowing it.  I just shrugged my shoulders and said Oh Well! I will just account for it.  Elizabeth I think had like 3 pieces of pie too.  I kept having people coming up to me and asking if I knew she had a piece of pie double the size of what I told her to get...lol!  Such is life...don't we usually take double dose of something when we know we should only have the small amount??
All is well...

Turkey day is over...

Now that the turkey is dead and gone...I am so glad!

We had 2 dinners this season.  It was hard to do the carbs for the first dinner b/c there were so many people and hard to keep track of what the kids were eating and drinking.  Jesse snuck a regular root beer bottle (IBC) without me knowing it.  I just shrugged my shoulders and said Oh Well! I will just account for it.  Elizabeth I think had like 3 pieces of pie too.  I kept having people coming up to me and asking if I knew she had a piece of pie double the size of what I told her to get...lol!  Such is life...don't we usually take double dose of something when we know we should only have the small amount??
All is well...

Almost there...

We have almost made it to the end of our first semester of homeschooling!!  So excited!  I still feel like we do a lot of this and a lot of that...even though it is kind of organized.

Tomorrow I think we will go to the library.  Its quiet there and with no distractions for the both of us.  I could use the time to do some catch up reading too!  We went tonight for a short visit with all of the kids.  I found a "weather" video for us to watch since that is the topic we are studying.  Also checked out 5 homeschooling books to flip through.  Will take some notes and turn them in tomorrow.

I should look for some type of library scavenger hunt for Jacob.  I wonder if there is one online.

Here is are a few of the books I am flipping through:

just to name a few...lol :)
I am looking forward to the first one as it writes about the different learning styles.

This is only a test, BBBBEEEEEEEEEEEEPPPPPPPP!!...ok, we are back!

Sorry for the long pause.

So this past week we had an angel deliver a huge blessing to us.  We are constantly running low on supplies at times.  In our mailbox was a box of..........

Isn't that awesome??  This combined with our prescription will help us during the last week and a half of every month that we tend to be running out.

I had to make a call in to the Vanderbilt Pedi Endo late one evening.  Jesse threw up and his blood sugars were borderline hypo.  Not sure what to do with his pump.  Turn it off, take it off??  Thought I would do a 50% decrease on his basal until morning but 50% made it .000 an hour.  what's the point?  So I called the dr.  Awesome doctor I spoke with!!  I actually met her at an ADA expo that I volunteered for in the late summer time.  She talked to me for a bit to reassure my abilities in getting him through the night.  We made a plan on what to do if he stayed borderline hypo and continued to throw up and we made a plan if he dropped to the 40s and 50s.  Either way....we had a plan!  I just loved this doctor!  We have a really good too for our appointments.  In fact, I haven't really come across a bad one at the Pedi department.
What came about of our night, we went from UH OH he has a tummy virus to....Jesse why did you eat so many sausages at dinner!!
HAHA!

Elizabeth had a hard night the other night too.  She dropped from 174-80 in a matter of 20 minutes!  Thinking she would continue to drop, I painfully woke her up from her sweet slumber to give her some orange juice and a glucose tab.  Wow a sugar tab for Elizabeth! She was excited to be allowed one of these!  Checked her about 20 minutes later and she was up to 130s....continued to check her every 15 minutes until she was in the 170s and I felt comfortable to go to sleep for the night.  By then it was about 2 in the morning.

And me, well....all I can say is that I have changed my eating habits due to a bad 3 weeks of digestion.  I have since changed to gluten free and dairy free.  At the beginning I thought I was starving until I found my food staples and my way around the gluten free areas.  Still doing alot of research and probably will never be done as new things are continually coming out all the time.  I went to books a million bookstore and found 2 magazines.  I will post links to the magazines when I get back from an errand...

This is only a test, BBBBEEEEEEEEEEEEPPPPPPPP!!...ok, we are back!

Sorry for the long pause.

So this past week we had an angel deliver a huge blessing to us.  We are constantly running low on supplies at times.  In our mailbox was a box of..........

Isn't that awesome??  This combined with our prescription will help us during the last week and a half of every month that we tend to be running out.

I had to make a call in to the Vanderbilt Pedi Endo late one evening.  Jesse threw up and his blood sugars were borderline hypo.  Not sure what to do with his pump.  Turn it off, take it off??  Thought I would do a 50% decrease on his basal until morning but 50% made it .000 an hour.  what's the point?  So I called the dr.  Awesome doctor I spoke with!!  I actually met her at an ADA expo that I volunteered for in the late summer time.  She talked to me for a bit to reassure my abilities in getting him through the night.  We made a plan on what to do if he stayed borderline hypo and continued to throw up and we made a plan if he dropped to the 40s and 50s.  Either way....we had a plan!  I just loved this doctor!  We have a really good too for our appointments.  In fact, I haven't really come across a bad one at the Pedi department.
What came about of our night, we went from UH OH he has a tummy virus to....Jesse why did you eat so many sausages at dinner!!
HAHA!

Elizabeth had a hard night the other night too.  She dropped from 174-80 in a matter of 20 minutes!  Thinking she would continue to drop, I painfully woke her up from her sweet slumber to give her some orange juice and a glucose tab.  Wow a sugar tab for Elizabeth! She was excited to be allowed one of these!  Checked her about 20 minutes later and she was up to 130s....continued to check her every 15 minutes until she was in the 170s and I felt comfortable to go to sleep for the night.  By then it was about 2 in the morning.

And me, well....all I can say is that I have changed my eating habits due to a bad 3 weeks of digestion.  I have since changed to gluten free and dairy free.  At the beginning I thought I was starving until I found my food staples and my way around the gluten free areas.  Still doing alot of research and probably will never be done as new things are continually coming out all the time.  I went to books a million bookstore and found 2 magazines.  I will post links to the magazines when I get back from an errand...

It's is a worksheet kind of day

This morning we worked on Group 1 and 2 of the SAT vocabulary lists.  He made flash cards with the words.  Later we will work on origins and where the word comes from before the English language.
But now, I have gone through some old workbooks and torn out several pages to work on for today.  I found 4 short stories to work on reading comprehension complete with questions on the back.  Then I found some early Algebra sheets on writing and evaluating expressions with a variable.  This should be fun!! :) Also, adding equations,  and equations with two variables.

Productive or not...it's still a Manic Monday!

The day started off early.  Had to get two children off to early school hour.  Then took Elizabeth to school.  Called the nurse on our way to the dentist and let her know I would be out of commission for the next two hours.  I also let her know of the "fun" we had on Friday without her in the office...lol!

Jesse came home and said his tubing snapped off at the base by his reservoir today at recess.  The nurse popped a new set in for him, so glad they can take care of these things now.  He also was getting low at school and was excited to say that he ate a pudding!! :)  The little things that make Jesse happy!!

Productive or not...it's still a Manic Monday!

The day started off early.  Had to get two children off to early school hour.  Then took Elizabeth to school.  Called the nurse on our way to the dentist and let her know I would be out of commission for the next two hours.  I also let her know of the "fun" we had on Friday without her in the office...lol!

Jesse came home and said his tubing snapped off at the base by his reservoir today at recess.  The nurse popped a new set in for him, so glad they can take care of these things now.  He also was getting low at school and was excited to say that he ate a pudding!! :)  The little things that make Jesse happy!!

Candy Experiments

A friend of mine posted on her facebook page today about doing candy experiments!!  How neat is this.  We aren't participating in trick or treating tonight...too many circumstances around this.  But this looks really neat!  So if you are looking for a fun way to start your week and use up candy in a productive way...Candy Experiments

SATs...getting prepared early

I think I am going to switch up how we do spelling and change it to vocabulary.  After talking with someone in our homeschool group meeting last night I think we may need to start getting ready for SATs.  So I found some vocabulary lists to get him started and we will go from there.   Same thing goes for math.  We are going to continue on our path with the math program we are using but I may start incorporating more of the SAT stuff in there too.

We are going on a field trip...

Elizabeth's class is going on a field trip next week.  The options for her is either I go with her or the nurse goes.  Regardless, someone still has to cover the school because of Jesse's diabetes and insulin.  So I met with the principal for a minute (literally) and we figured out that I would go to the field trip and Jacob would come along (since I homeschool him and he is 11).  But I had to drive due to the fact that Jacob is not a student and still a minor, he can't ride the bus too.  We will be checking Elizabeth out of school and driving to the pumpkin farm and will meet her class there and then drive her back to the school.  Thankfully they aren't counting her absent either because we get enough of those on our own...lol!  I wonder how she is going to feel about riding with us instead of her friends at school though?  Well, I think this is for the best.

Also, talked to the teacher about the candy issue and hopefully that is resolved.  Elizabeth came home yesterday and said, "I had to drink water today because I was high"!  She sounded excited!  Checked her meter.  And while she wasn't too terribly high it was definitely out of her normal range for that time of day.  What did you eat that was different?  Ummm...just 2 gummy bears.  Just 2, huh?  Well, the rest is history.  I did let them know again today that gummy bears are a no go.  Today she is eating cici's pizza and a cupcake for lunch.  Can't wait to see those numbers.  Curious on how she will handle this pizza.  They did great and only ordered pepparoni and cheese pizzas.  Not as much fat in those pizzas as there is in the sausage ones. 

Tomorrow is Friday! Yea!

We are going on a field trip...

Elizabeth's class is going on a field trip next week.  The options for her is either I go with her or the nurse goes.  Regardless, someone still has to cover the school because of Jesse's diabetes and insulin.  So I met with the principal for a minute (literally) and we figured out that I would go to the field trip and Jacob would come along (since I homeschool him and he is 11).  But I had to drive due to the fact that Jacob is not a student and still a minor, he can't ride the bus too.  We will be checking Elizabeth out of school and driving to the pumpkin farm and will meet her class there and then drive her back to the school.  Thankfully they aren't counting her absent either because we get enough of those on our own...lol!  I wonder how she is going to feel about riding with us instead of her friends at school though?  Well, I think this is for the best.

Also, talked to the teacher about the candy issue and hopefully that is resolved.  Elizabeth came home yesterday and said, "I had to drink water today because I was high"!  She sounded excited!  Checked her meter.  And while she wasn't too terribly high it was definitely out of her normal range for that time of day.  What did you eat that was different?  Ummm...just 2 gummy bears.  Just 2, huh?  Well, the rest is history.  I did let them know again today that gummy bears are a no go.  Today she is eating cici's pizza and a cupcake for lunch.  Can't wait to see those numbers.  Curious on how she will handle this pizza.  They did great and only ordered pepparoni and cheese pizzas.  Not as much fat in those pizzas as there is in the sausage ones. 

Tomorrow is Friday! Yea!