The doings of the Dewings, in a nut shell

I suppose I could wait a few more days and make it a whole 2 MONTHS since I’ve posted anything, but I figured that would be too lazy easy. And, as most of you know, I’m all about doing the (ahem) hard stuff.

So where have I been? Hiding. No, not really. I’m too bust to hide. Besides, I tried that once and my children got into some trouble because of it (trouble with me, that is.). So I choose not to hide for too long anymore. But we truly have been busy. I can’t remember all that has happened since I posted last, so I’m not going to even try. Plus, I’m not sure people are all that interested anyway.

We are still doing school and that is going nicely. It has really helped that I’ve “backed off” Maacah about when she gets her school done. She still has to get it done before Daddy comes home (or before 5pm, which ever day it is) and she still has a certain number of lessons to do each week (which can change, depending of what is happening that week). She know all this and seems to work better having this responsibility. I’m finding that I’m not biting my tongue as much as I did and that certainly is helping me. We have about 3 more months left of school, for I’m hoping to have it all finished by the time the baby is born. While I’m pretty sure the baby won’t be here before October 10, I’d still like to be done with it all by the 1st week of October. But we’ll see. And I’m also leading towards starting Isaac in 1st grade when Grace goes into 2nd and Maacah into 3rd. He will be 5 at the end of October and while he may not be totally ready for it, like Maacah and Grace were, going through any more “kindergarten” stuff will not be good either. He’s totally ready to move on now.

Malachi turned 3 yesterday. Boy, did that time go by fast! While we didn’t do anything specific on the actual day, we did take a trip to Sturgeon Bay and it was really nice. We left on Friday morning and came back Saturday night. On Friday afternoon, we went to Schopf’s Hilltop Dairy and that we fun for the kids. It is a dairy that allows it’s visitors to view the cows being milked while explaining the whole process of what happens to the milk from the cow to the store. They also have an ice cream parlor on site which make the ice cream right there at the dairy. I think their favorite part of that place was they got to eat their desert before supper!

We stayed the night at a near by hotel, which had an indoor pool. The high light of that was when Daddy got in with his clothes on and swam with us! The children just couldn’t get over that “Daddy’s swiming with us and he doesn’t even like water!”. He quite surprised his wife, too. We then ate out at a chinese buffet that was across the street, which I was quite happy with for I have had a hankoring for chinese food lately.

On Saturday, we went to The Farm and the children totally had a blast! It is a competly hands on farm that was opened up in 1965 and it geared towards children. There are many different babies running around the place and for $.25, you can feed the baby goats, lambs, cows or pigs a bottle of milk. You can also purchase bags of corn for $.25 to feed the chickens, horses, donkeys, adult goats and cows. There is also the opportunity to milk a goat, for which the children really enjoyed!
Through out the farm there are old, original log cabins (moved onto the property from around the area) that are set up to showcase how things were done in the days of ore. If you are looking for a neat place for the children, something that is educational and worthwhile, The Farm is the place to go!

Last, but not least, I had spoken in the past about something we were considering for the birth of this child: having a home birth. Without going into to much explanation, we have decided to go with it. We have prayed and thought about it much and we both feel that this is the right decision for us. I had debated of whether or not to mention this here because I don’t know who reads this and there are some who might be reading and who would be completely against it. But I’ve come to the conclusion that this is not something I’m ashamed of and it’s not something I want to keep a secret. For when the baby is born, I want to share the experience here, with pictures and explanations of what occurred. So I might as well be upfront and honest about it now, to let those people get used to the idea before they are surprised with pictures and all. I am expecting some back lash about it, but that’s okay. It a decision that Adam and I have come to and it’s not open to discussion (meaning everyone is certainly entitled to their opinion and we will listen, but the decision has been made.).