Oh my, it's been forever since I last blogged!  The most important is that we are still loving our new state.  The girls continue to enjoy their Girl Scout group and two homeschooling groups.  We found a free arts and crafts class on Saturday.  Oldest continues to look forward to her writing group at the library.  She is actually writing a book and today I showed her how to type it into the computer after creating her own folder.  Youngest and I have been reading together American Girl books as we go monthly to Barnes and Noble for their club. 

This month I have two new projects-studying for my state's social work license and losing 50 pounds.  For the first week I exercised twice by riding a stationary bike for 2.5 miles while the girls were doing arts and crafts and a 45 minute Zumba class.  This weekend I rode the stationary bike for 6 miles, walked 2 miles and did 5 minutes of Zumba.  Been stretching daily but the weight got out of control with not being able to do any other exercising.

Hubby has been working very, very hard on our huge garden.  Actually it is two gardens.  One is in more shade.  It is for the girls plus those veggies that are okay with shade.  The other is for everything else.  We are hopeful that we can do some major canning and freezing from our great garden.  Speaking of canning, last weekend I got a great deal on strawberries so made strawberry preserves.  After cost, we realized that making on own cost about the same as in the store.  The good news is that we know what is in it!

The chickens for the last four days are giving us 8 eggs daily.  We are talking about putting a sign out and selling them.  We want to make sure that they are finally being consistent before we do that though.  Been fighting something respiratory and eye worm with the chickens.  We made a very grave error and bought some chickens at a local flock swap.  Those chickens weren't healthy and impacted our chickens.  Lost several including our Silkie rooster.  The Delaware that we got at the flock swap was supposed to be a hen but like Hubby said, if it is then why was it on top of one of our girls?  (:

I got out the summer clothes today as it has been in the high 80's/low 90's.  Last night it rained so it was actually not too hot today.

Our babies we are hoping will be having their own babies this summer.  Daisy is definitely pregnant and quit lazy about it.  Trying to get her to run and play doesn't happen as long as it used to.  Midnight continues to be playful and wants us to stay even after a couple hours out with her.  We are not so sure about whether she is pregnant or not.  We think so but probably only one.  We are on a quest for a Nigerian Dwarf billy to buy to keep us in milk.

I just ordered the California Achievement Test for both girls to take.  This state says that they have to take a test at end of year.  We plan to end school right before Memorial Day weekend.  Although this summer is going to still be learning as we are planning to do "Math In The Garden (thank you charter school of the past)."  We are also going to have the girls read, read, read.  Youngest is finally figuring it out and loving to read her books to Mom and Dad.  Oldest carries a book with her at all times.  We are soooo blessed that reading is a joy and great pleasure in our family!!!