Can you hear me kicking and screaming, "I don't wanta!"  I don't want to go to town!  I want to stay home!!!  Kids have therapy, so I have no choice.  I try to combine my town trips to get everything I need done.  Everything includes a trip to Sam's for Thanksgiving stuff, and the grocery store.  I may hold off on the grocery store until tomorrow.   I have to go the other direction to "town" tomorrow for our produce co-op.  It is a much smaller down and the ONE grocery store has all I need, competitive prices and is 1.4 the size of the big down stores.  The people are also much friendlier. 

Yesterday didn't go as planned.  God prompted me to check MJ's school work on the computer before I allowed him to help me.  You guessed it, he wasn't done, had some bad grades and so is in TROUBLE.  His consequence for not having it done/passing is redoing and doing until it is all caught up.  His consequence for lying.... well I am making him sweat that. I won't share what it is with him until he is finished with school work.  Just keep pointing out it will NOT be fun!  He is going to gather fire wood for me.  Cart loads of fire wood.  He had a mouthy attitude yesterday to go with the lying.  Each mouthy disrespectful statement was met with  you just added to your consequence. 

MN also had a bad day.  Hers is much more understandable.  She is dealing with memories and having to share those with strangers.  She is angry.  She made the choice to fail several test yesterday.  Not fail as in just didn't get it, but fail as in didn't try.  I pointed out she made that choice.  Then deleted the full section.  Mom's rule is if you fail a lesson you redo the lesson, a quiz all the lessons under that quiz.  A test... well that depends.  If it is an almost passing grade then I will have them redo the lessons that they missed questions on.  Yesterday was 110% attitude.  So she paid the price.  She had to redo the whole sections.  I pointed out I have ask her to talk and not bottle it up.  I have gave her chances to share with me.  I understand she is angry, but she has the power to choose how she handles that anger.  She finally boiled over and shared.  She was mad she had to go to Hope House.  She didn't like going. I agreed I didn't like her having to go.  She then shared she didn't like having to share with strangers.  I understood.  We talked some and she got a better attitude.... for a while.  Then she developed an angry attitude again.  I kept asking who she was mad at?  Was it me, was it T?  We were the ones she was taking it out on.  She said no she wasn't mad at us.  Today seems better

I did get a lot done, even without my helpers.  I made 3 batches of biscuit mix, two loaves of bread and cornbread.   My house smelled so good.  Then I cooked broccoli.  That took care of all the good smells. 

My friend came out and her little boy had fun trying to milk the cow and milking the goat.   He did really well on the goat.  Got several streams of milk.  I think my zoo was an experience for all of them.

Today I already have tators cooking in the slow cooker for mash potatoes tonight, and hamburger meat cooking with seasoning that I hope will taste like chili by tonight.  I want to whip up a batch of bread and take it to a friend.  I am not getting that done as fast as I would like.  I am setting here instead.   Coffee cup is about empty, clock says 8 AM so my play time is over.  I hope everyone has a blessed day!