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Hubby had to go into work early today and then he had extra work that started right after school and i am not sure quite when he will get home today.

I’ve spent most of my day in the office/class room today. We did school, i filed schooling and did a bunch of printing of more school pages. I think i got 3 weeks worth printed thanks to the new ink i bought off of ebay! I even got color ink so i was able to print the pages that needed color! Yay! Lol…. funny how i get excited about things like that.

One thing i am VERY proud of is that Anabel has learned to sound out words. It still takes a lot of work but she can do it! We started something new where she gets a flower every school day and if she is able to read a word on her own without help from me, then she gets a sticker to put on her flower. Today she got 13 stickers to put on her flower because she read 13 words. Here is a picture of her with her flower:

So proud of her!

Something else that excites me is the new PC we are having my sister in-law build for us. My lappy is pretty much shot, poor thing. It dies all the time (think the fan is going in and out) and it’s slow as all get out. The girls can’t play their ABCmouse.com which he we had paid a years worth of it in advance (at least they are able to play it on Hubs ipad when he is home) but sometime i would like them to be able to get on it to play activities that go along with the letter of the week are on. Plus i just got a ton of resources that i want to use in school for the girls and my laptop isn’t capable of handling it, like online books and educational sites. So a new computer was a necessary schooling supply. Above all that i use my laptop daily with school to print off resources or crafts to do and such…. i am always using it.

So not only am i stocked about having a new sweet pc for myself, i also need it in my ‘work’. I am REALLY excited about it. The other day i was able to purchase most of the parts for the computer and have it sent to my sister in-laws house. Only parts i haven’t gotten are the case and DVD player for it because I'm super crossing my fingers that my old case and DVD player will work in this new one (would save us a few bucks too). Also we thought the TV we have we would use as monitor but there is a chance we are going to have to buy a monitor as well….. we are going to see if the tv’s resolution will work for a monitor but i have a feeling it’s going to bug my eyes out on txt.

Speaking of income tax, we have only gotten our federal so far but with that we were able to pay off our van and our ergo bed…. we officially own both of those! YAY! We are also planning to use some of that money to purchase next years school curriculum (1st grade YIKES) and some school supplies. I have already bought a few school items that we can use in the rest of this school year. Also we are hoping to refinance our house. We currently have 26 years left on our mortgage but from the calls we made it looks like we could refinance to a 15 year mortgage and still pay the same as we are now, knocking off 11 years! Also i have been working the budget A LOT and with the new bills paid off and if we are able to refinance there is a chance starting the middle of this year we can start paying our normal mortgage with an extra months worth of principle on top of it (so like paying for two months every month). I worked it and if that is possible we are talking about being able to pay the house off in 6.75 years! So before I'm 33! That would be AMAZING! I’m so hoping that works out because frankly that seems to good to be true! Plus that is with putting a substantial amount of money (for us) in savings.

On a side note Matthew is now 10 months old!

He LOVES to climb stairs (scary!), huge eater, MESSY eater lately, in the clingy mommy stage, adores his sisters, waves, says ‘momma’ and ‘dada’, well…. he’s just plain adorable and cute and smiles all the time and melts your heart! Love him to pieces! He’s also done the stereo typical baby thing of splashing in the toilet…. ya…. icky! Unlike most babies he doesn’t go for every little thing on the floor and put it in his mouth, he does it but not as much as the girls did/do (Abby still lol)

Ha i should go clean and make supper, it’s getting late. Anyways there is a little update….. i was bored and wanted to talk since Hubby is gone lol