BRRRR!!

What happened to my beautiful March? All of a sudden it's in the high 30s and low 40s! *sad face*. But we've kept busy inside, my daughter decided she wants to be a Sparky (in AWANAs) next year so I told her she needs to learn to read, even though she'll be the right age. She's taking to reading like a fish to water. She loves it! In less than two weeks we've done around 20 lessons and she's reading words all by herself! (on a side note, Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lesson is amazing!) This early in the book, each lesson has a short 2-4 word story, which she has enjoyed reading. We also did the Resurrection Eggs by Family Life, one egg a day on weekdays as a sort of Bible study. My daughter had such fun opening each egg and learning more about our Lord's Resurrection. Next week, since we're done with the Resurrection Eggs, we're going to start Greenleaf Press's Old Testament History.

I've been busy getting ready for the birth of our second daughter. We have all the things we need for the birth, except the pool liner. I seem to be having trouble with the website :(. I'll just keep wrestling with it, and hopefully it'll work for me! I even have frozen meals ready, bought paper plates and bowls, plastic forks, knives and spoons and cups. I don't want to have to do a dish I don't have to after the baby's born!

On another note, I may have killed all our plants. I took them outside to enjoy some sunlight and warmth the other day (it was in the mid-50s), and by the time evening came around had forgotten about them. By the time I remembered them, I was cramping and everyone was in bed, so out they stayed. They look a little wilted. OOPS!! I guess we'll be buying already grown plants and transplanting them so we can have some vegetables and flowers. Ah well, at least it will give us another day of planting, which is something my daughter loves to do anyway *smiles*.

We dyed some eggs the other day, something my daughter's been "dyeing" to do *cheesy grin*. She had so much fun, mixing the colors, digging the eggs out, letting them dry and putting stickers all over them.

Today, we've made an egg cake, done the last Resurrection Egg and a reading lesson. Later, my daughter will probably do some jumpstart on the computer, it's her new favorite thing to do, and it actually gives me a few minutes of down time.

Right now, though, we're going to watch a movie and chill out for a few minutes!