Stocking Stuffers

 Stockings are so much fun because you can fit some small but cool things in there! For reference, my boys are 8, 6, 5 and Miss L will be 4 a couple weeks before Christmas. Ideas:

Sporks! Perhaps my kids are weird, but they love sporks. They are surprisingly hard to find! My kids will find some in their stockings this year!

Aldi sells some very cute little chocolates and candies. They're hollow, and very pretty. My kids get those as well as the chocolate coins. They have ornaments as well as these:

I picked these laser lights up for less than $1, and I'm sure they will be a hit! I got a 4 pack, but now I see they only have a 48 pack, although still less than $7.

They each get a roll of tape. They are tape hogs.

L is also getting a Hello Kitty notebook from the Dollar Spot and some costume jewelry.

(hers looks like this but it was only about $5 unlike the one I'm linking! )


They are each getting an analog watch as well, and a chocolate orange. I may add a few other small things like a toothbrush, some pencils or fun erasers, perhaps some socks and underwear.

Sufficiently Grown Up

I've been thinking a lot lately about what I want to do with my life, you know, beyond raising and homeschooling four kids and running the house and all the domestic responsibilities that go with that. So far, I still don't know. It seems like a lifetime ago that I was a teacher. Truth be told, I am not the tiniest bit interested in teaching in the school district that I live in now and besides, I am teaching my own kids. True, I don't get paid, but I didn't get paid THAT much when I was drawing a paycheck.

I feel as though I should have more ambition but right now I have no motivation to go back to work. Maybe ever. After all, there's always more than enough to do here. I don't know how many more years I will home school the kids, but right now it is the best option available to us. It seems silly to go back to work as a teacher when I would rather be teaching my own kids anyway. I no longer have a passion to be a public school teacher. I don't like kids as much as I used to. (Over exposure? Haha.)

I am sufficiently grown up enough to be whatever I wanted to be when I actually wanted to be something, and yet... I'm not sure what I would want to be if I had time to be something else. I guess I'm... satisfied... with where I am. Happy, even.

I still keep thinking a passion or aptitude for something else will jump out in front of me one day, but right now, I'm happy right here.

I'm really sucking at blog stuff lately! I not only forget to blog, I forget to read your blogs as well! Oops. I'm going to try to do better, but I've been reading a lot lately and it tends to consume all my free minutes. Right now I'm reading the Outlander series. I have the first seven books and I'm somewhere in book 4 right now. These suckers are LONG!

Oh, and I know Halloween was a whole week ago but I thought I'd post a picture of the kids in their costumes anyway.

Now it's on to Thanksgiving and a birthday! Miss L's birthday is sneaking up on me. It still feels like a long time away, but I know I need to get busy planning something. I can't believe my little baby is about to be 4. Seriously, the years FLY by now so fast that I can scarcely believe it. O had to correct my age the other day because I thought I was still 31 and it turns out I've been 32 for a couple months. Ha!
This kid will be FOUR in less than a month! She really doesn't look like a baby anymore. Eek!