The 25-cent crockpot works!  I was putting pieces of chicken in my "old" crockpot for tonight's dinner, and decided to plug in the 25 center along beside it, filled with water, to see if it would heat up the water, and it did. Yeah!

Almost all the laundry in the house is done, except for a lot of the girls' dirty clothes.  Where did they get all these clothes?  I guess it is a spill-over from when I bought them too much and most of it still fits them.  Can't complain about that. 

I put a dent in our homeschool paraphanalia(spelling?), and am working toward getting all of it neatened up with possibly an assingment sheet for each child written up for the first week of the 2008-2009 school year.  I'm feeling ambitious.  That way, I won't be in a rush when August rolls around. 

I am also hoping to have schedules written up so that everything can run relatively smoothly when I start my job at the grocery store. 

Melanie