the Life of Olena

A young couple moves into a new neighborhood. The next morning while they are eating breakfast, The young woman sees her neighbor hanging the wash outside. "That laundry is not very clean", she said. "She doesn't know how to wash correctly. Perhaps she needs better laundry soap." Her husband looked on, but remained silent. Every time her neighbor would hang her wash to dry, The young woman would make the same comments. About one month later, the woman was surprised to see a Nice clean wash on the line and said to her husband: "Look, she has learned how to wash correctly. I wonder who taught her this." The husband said, "I got up early this morning and Cleaned our windows." And so it is with life. What we see in our lives Depends on the purity of the window through which we look This was in my email the next morning after I boo-hooed in my last blog post! Believe it or not, the person

The mid-year or maybe mid-life crisis is upon me.  I have lost all physical and mental stability that I had.  I am tired, extremely unmotivated,  brain dead and emotional.  I have already had 2 mini melt downs about homeschooling - fearing my ability and decision.  Every time I try to read something I don't comprehend a darn word, it is like my brain is completely fogged over.  I also have a pity party going on in my head for myself.  I have not been necessarily depressed on the outside but the thoughts are constantly going and it seems like it never rests. I can tell I am on over drive because I have crazy off the wall very vivid dreams when this happens, and so far for the last 2 weeks this has been the case nearly every night After some thinking and praying last night I thought about this... if a person is not growing, then they are dying.  Growth is something I can honestly say has not happened for quite some time.  Myself and this family have been on the straight and narrow

Tuesday (tomorrow) marks the start of a new begining for Jason and I.  We have decided to start the Nutrisystem Program in conjuction with juicing.  If you are not familiar with NS they mail you prepackaged astonaut food (not really but that is what it reminds me of) and with that you are suppose to eat lots of veggies and some fruit.  Instead of added that by eating it, we will juice instead! We set everything up yesterday and had a practice run......EEEWWWW is all I can say about that.  I did manage to get it down but from this point forward I vow to use a recipe instead of just guessing.  We had way too much cucumber and lemon, very bitter and I burped up cucumber all day long! This morning was carrot, apple and strawberry.... a much much better combination.  As for Olena, she loves it too.  She juiced her own cup of OJ this morning and drank some of what Jason made with the veggies.  I love that she is such a health food junkie!   Wish us luck. 

Well I wasn't fully prepared for the first day of school but all morning she kept asking me "can we do school today please!!", so I improvised and we worked with what we had.  Unfortunately I waited until the last minute to order a few of her books and they have not come yet so we worked on Math (math-u-see) along with some reading review from Starfall.   It took her a few times to catch onto the Lesson in math but after about an hour she started to get comfortable with it.  I figured we will work on that Lesson one more time this week before going to the next.  As for Startfall, she breezed right through.  I am making her start back at the beginning for review from last year because we have not spent a lot time practicing our reading this summer.  I was happy to see how well she jumped back in.  Last night we also started reading Jack London's White Fang.  She sat on her bed and looked through her picture books while I read aloud. The beginning is a bit o