Wow, is it already September?!?  This summer has gone so quickly!!  We were gone for the entire month of July, trekking across the country with a mini-van and a tent trailer.  We saw so many different awesome things!  Soon I will update my link to our family site so that you all can see photos and journal entries from our trip.  Currently, our house is for sale, and our family site has photos and info for that! 

We are planning to move!  We have a house picked out in a town that is about 20-30 minutes away from here.  We will be slightly closer to my husband's work, much further from our church, but in a nice, smaller community, in a bigger, brand new house.  Yup, we're getting a new construction house, scheduled to be finished sometime around Feb. or March.  We will be renting until then, after we sell our current home, that is.  So many crazy things going on!!  Originally we wanted to get farm land (you know, I've mentioned my desires for a cow on here before).  But it really came down to having to choose: do we want more kids (and thus, enough bedrooms for more kids), or a cow?  And, do I want my husband working at home (meaning, a dedicated den and a high speed internet connection), or chickens?  :)  We really couldn't afford all of the above, so we decided that we would move into a neighborhood that is being built on what used to be a farm (so we'll have awesome soil!).  And, if you drive out of our future neighborhood, there are farms all around it...So we can walk to farms.  And hey, maybe someone will board some chickens for me...and a cow?  :)

The boys seem to be getting more and more active.  Isaac is almost 4, Kaleb is 2 1/2 and Noah is almost 2.  They are BUSY!  They run, and jump, and sing, pretty much ALL the time!  I looked up "homeschooling active boys" in Google tonight and found a whole bunch of links about ADD.  What?!  As if just being an "active boy" means they have ADD?  I don't think so!  I know that I will have to teach them in active ways--we can jump & learn to count, and march to memorize Scripture.  They can learn, just not the same way girls naturally learn.  How frustrating, the ways that the feminists are impacting our boys!!!  Getting them all on rittalin to make them behave like girls.  I am so glad (for my kids' sake) that I am a homeschool momma!!

I have received quite a few e-mails about my thoughts on feeding an underweight toddler.  I am thinking it's about time to write more about that topic.  Unfortunately, there isn't a lot out there on the topic, and on Yahoo, for the longest time, Serious Moms has been the top site that pops up!!  Crazy!  Many of you have asked how Isaac is doing now.  He is not growing well, still.  The poor little guy has had to have his blood drawn so many times to find out what is going on.  He's done urine samples, stool samples, etc.  We weigh him daily, we feed him high calorie foods like crazy, we give him drip feedings through his gastrointestinal tube, and still--minimal growth.  We just had his tonsils removed on Monday, hoping that he would stop gagging and vomiting (his tonsils were huge).  Please pray for him if you think to.  He's the skinniest little guy!!  He grows taller, he just doesn't grow wider and he doesn't gain weight very well.  I will write more soon about some more of the high calorie foods we've tried on him, the tests Isaac has had done, and whatever else I think of.

It's only 9:30 and I am exhausted!!  It's really tough keeping our house spotless and ready to show at any moment with 3 active boys!  And this morning I decided I was going to make sticky rolls and lasagna, as well as washing the dishes, folding the laundry, making the beds, changing the sheets, vacuuming, sweeping, mopping, caring for 3 boys, making sure Isaac got his tube feeding, stopping fights, disciplining, and more!!  (oh, and all before 10, because that's the earliest people can come to look at the house--it didn't happen by 10 am, so I was thankful we didn't get any phone calls this morn!!).  Needless to say, I am TIRED!  :)