tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58783375997131334492024-03-12T18:54:35.671-05:00Life With My KidsShellyKayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089886022881824802noreply@blogger.comBlogger332125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5878337599713133449.post-6150879394690932762020-01-11T18:07:00.000-06:002020-01-11T19:48:24.229-06:002019 Christmas Card<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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It seems crazy that 2020 is here already! It still feels like 2000 was just yesterday! As usual, 2019 was another busy year for the Paulson family. But, busy is good I think. 😉</div>
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Josh is stilling working as a Rig Manager on an oil rig in North Dakota. It's a stressful job, but he does enjoy the time off. He managed to get in a little bit of Elk hunting this fall. Of course the Elk moved in the day he got back to work!</div>
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I am still homeschooling the kids and keeping busy with teaching Sunday School and a Wednesday kids catechism class. I also started working for BabyQuip this last year and opened up our two campers on AirBnB. My real love though is spending time at the lake in the summer! I love relaxing with a good book and watching the kids swim and kayak. </div>
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Brooke, Matt, and Xaviar moved to Belgrade in February. Matt took a roofing job there and has been very successful at it! Brooke worked at a daycare there. It worked well as she could take Xaviar with her and not pay for childcare. She's now staying home and expecting a baby girl in June! Xaviar turned one in August and I am sure he is going to be a very protective older brother! He is such a happy little guy and so much fun for all of us!</div>
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Emily is in her third year of school at Williston State College. She will graduate as an RN in May. She had been working for Visiting Angels, but now that she's a nurse she is working at Bethel Home. School and work keep her very busy!</div>
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Grace is living in Ennis and working full-time at the McAllister Inn Steakhouse and Bar. She makes bank during the busy summer season and is able to take some time for travel during the slow winter. I think she knows pretty much everyone in town now!</div>
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Sophia is fourteen and a freshman this year. I hope this next four years goes slow! She is involved with 4H Shooting Sports which keeps us running four nights a week. This year she has decided to do Archery, Air Pistol, and Air Rifle. She's looking forward to her first competition for the year which is coming up next weekend.</div>
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Allison is in seventh grade this year and just turned 13. Two teen girls in the house again! She's excited to finally have her ears pierced before her birthday. Allison is also involved in 4H Shooting Sports. Archery is her only love though. </div>
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Lydia is ten and in fifth grade this year. She enjoys You Tube videos and Pinterest and is often working on either a science project, building project, or craft project! She is such a creative young girl!</div>
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Levi is seven and in second grade this year. He loves anything that has to do with building. He is constantly building with his legos and is starting to work on more projects with electronics on them. </div>
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Arthur just turned five in December. He enjoys playing on his Ipad most of all. We have to set some serious limits! He also enjoys playing Legos and catch with Levi. </div>
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It has been a nice, busy, stressful, and fun year and we are definitely looking forward to the changes and excitement in the new year!!! </div>
ShellyKayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089886022881824802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5878337599713133449.post-36969070222799735762015-09-19T07:16:00.000-05:002015-09-19T07:16:20.870-05:00Summer Fun In The Pool!<div style="text-align: center;">
I think we made the best purchase ever this summer! We bought an above ground pool for the backyard. The kids swam almost every afternoon! They all became so comfortable in the water by the end of summer. We had friends over to swim. We had cousins over to swim. Grace and Sophia went out in the evenings and swam together. Josh and I swam with the kids. It was just so much fun! Here are some pictures of friends and family enjoying the pool:</div>
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ShellyKayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089886022881824802noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5878337599713133449.post-42438236695891929342015-09-17T07:02:00.000-05:002015-09-17T07:02:34.566-05:00Arthur - Eight Months<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Ah my sweet little Arthur. Looking back now I realize I could have been a good mom and put a blanket down for him and he probably would have been much happier for his pictures! At least Dolly could cheer him up momentarily! Arthur just loves Dolly and Dolly, as always, is so good with babies. They can pull his hair or climb on him and pinch him and she doesn't mind a bit. Best.Dog.Ever.</div>
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At eight months Arthur has four teeth. He was sleeping through the night, but now gets up at least once for a bottle. He is crawling, mostly on all fours. It's so funny to watch him and see how fast he can move when he really wants something. Sophia is his favorite right now and often times he will choose her over me! He hates baby food but will eat a little bit of it. He gags on most other things, like crackers. He is just a little love bug!! </div>
ShellyKayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089886022881824802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5878337599713133449.post-27400352636917364152015-09-17T06:46:00.000-05:002015-09-17T06:46:31.598-05:00Levi - Preschool<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Oh this boy melts my heart every single day! He also drives me up a wall with his stubbornness every single day! He loves to play with his cars and trucks, and build with blocks or legos. </div>
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Levi's preschool is pretty basic. Some days we get to it and some days we don't. Right now we are just learning the letters and their sounds. I am using the preschool program I purchased a couple years ago from <a href="http://www.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/" target="_blank">Confessions of a Homeschooler</a>. This gives us plenty of hands on activities for each letter. I just put them in his school drawers and he picks what he would like to do. I'm also using <a href="http://allinonehomeschool.com/" target="_blank">Easy Peasy All-in-One Homeschool</a> to supplement. I just go to Level One and find the letter we are working on and then we use the computer links. He really enjoys the alphabet and letter videos. </div>
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It is so very different homeschooling a boy. He refuses to color most days. But give him paper and he will cut with a scissor all day! He insists on doing school when the girls do. I think he doesn't like to be left out. I can't even distract him with a learning video or the IPad! I have learned that it is best to get him going on something first before I even try to work with the girls. I am thankful though that he does take an interest in learning. After two weeks of working on the letter A I thought it was time to give up when he all of the sudden put it together and figured out the A sound. After that he learned the E really quickly. What a relief!</div>
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Lydia is in first grade this year. She mostly likes to be inside playing with her doll house toys. She builds these great big houses for her dolls to live in.</div>
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Lydia also uses our list of electives if she finishes school early or is waiting for help. Having this list of electives has been a real lifesaver for me. I am so thankful for other homeschool moms who share their wisdom! Lydia has a love/hate relationship with school. It mostly depends on her mood and if she has had enough sleep! I had to revamp her math and language arts about three weeks in, too. But we are working through things so much easier now. </div>
ShellyKayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089886022881824802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5878337599713133449.post-60432801659966898392015-09-17T06:22:00.000-05:002015-09-17T06:33:06.958-05:00Allison - Second Grade<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Allison is in the second grade this year. She loves to play outside. Hiking our hills is usually where you will find her this fall. </div>
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Allison also uses the list of electives I typed up to keep her busy if she finishes school early or if she is waiting for help. It has taken some major adjustments this year to get our curriculum where we are both pretty happy with it. We both ended up not liking my first picks for language arts and math. So a few weeks in to the school year we pretty much started over! But it is going much better now. I feel like she is learning and not struggling so much.</div>
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ShellyKayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089886022881824802noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5878337599713133449.post-75887797304493306652015-08-20T21:00:00.000-05:002015-09-15T06:37:39.072-05:00First Day of High School 2015-2016<div align="center">
Emily and Grace started school again today. Back to public high school for both of them. This is their second year of public school. They have a love/hate relationship with it!</div>
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Emily is a junior this year. She is working at a little food shack that is run by a couple from our church. She works three nights during the week and one day of the weekend. She is very busy and we hardly ever see her. I miss that girl!</div>
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Grace is a sophomore this year. She is working one day of the weekend at the food shack. She and a friend are football managers this year. It is a very exciting year at their school because they just got high school football and volleyball back this year! This extra activity keeps her at school until six everyday and at a game most Saturdays. I'm glad she enjoys it but I sure miss her, too! </div>
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Emily and Grace have a really special relationship since they are so close in age - only 17 months apart. They've been best friends and worst enemies since the beginning! I really enjoy watching them grow up together and seeing their friendship evolve. One day they are best friends, sitting in their room laughing about their day. The next they are arguing about their messy room or some other issue. But in the end they have such a strong bond and feeling of obligation towards each other. I love them both so much and am so blessed by them. They are so different from each other and both give so much joy to our family!</div>
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My crazy adorable littles! This is who I have home with me everyday this year!</div>
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Allison - 2nd</div>
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Levi - Preschool, Age 3</div>
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ShellyKayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089886022881824802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5878337599713133449.post-65604829388700470112015-07-22T21:34:00.002-05:002015-07-22T21:34:28.930-05:00Reflections At Age Forty<ul>
<li>I have better friends now than I have had my entire life. The. Best. Ever.</li>
<li>I worry so much less about what other people think. That's awesome.</li>
<li>I still worry about ruining my kids by homeschooling them.</li>
<li>I like red wine. The really gross stuff my mom always drinks.</li>
<li>I like better beer now. I've replaced the Coors Light with Heineken and IPAs.</li>
<li>I understand my mother more. Oh God.</li>
<li>I'm way less strict than I used to be. But I regret it daily.</li>
<li>I still love my husband as much as I did when I first fell in love with him. Probably more.</li>
<li>I can now admit I have anger issues, haha. And I medicate to help with that. And the depression. And the anxiety. So yeah anger, depression, anxiety. All the fun stuff!</li>
<li>I have learned how to grill. I love it. LOVE IT.</li>
<li>I weigh the most I have in my entire life and for the first time ever I wear a bikini. So weird. Well I wear one in my back yard pool anyway.</li>
<li>I have a lot of guilt because I don't keep in touch with family and friends as well as I should. I keep saying I'm going to work on that but then life just gets in the way all over again. </li>
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Seriously though, what is it about the 40th birthday that makes it just like New Years? I feel all of this pressure to do better...in everything. I keep thinking things like now that I'm 40 I am going to eat healthier, lose weight, feed my kids better, relax, enjoy everything more, accomplish more, clean the house more, keep to a good school schedule. It's like half of me is super relaxed and good with things as they are and the other half is all motivated to make all these positive changes. Is this normal?? I have no idea. But in reality tomorrow is just another day. Nothing has really changed except the number. So I will just keep going, trying to do better and yet accepting all the things about me that really will probably never change. So what the heck, cheers to tomorrow! I'm going to end my night with a glass of wine and an episode of my current tv series, Life of An American Teenager. Life.Is.Good. ShellyKayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15089886022881824802noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5878337599713133449.post-25377815299280685072014-09-22T20:41:00.000-05:002014-09-22T20:41:53.987-05:00When Brooke Comes HomeAs much work as they are, there is something very cool and very fun about having teenagers. Yes, there is the drama, the fights, the jealousy, and the competition. But oh, the moments they get along, those moments make up for it all! Brooke was home from college this last weekend. It was so fun to have her here, but really it is just so much fun to see her and Emily and Grace interact. They love to argue and fight and pick on each other relentlessly. But it really is all in fun. Here are a few pictures from our weekend:<br />
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I can't forget to tell you about the conversations. Those are really fun. I can't remember them all but a few quotes come to mind:</div>
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I remembered to take first day of school pictures this year! Well at least of the little kids. I didn't get pictures of Emily and Grace because they started Public School this year and they get up and leave well before I wake up! I told them I would take their pictures when they got home from school but somehow they managed to change into comfy clothes before I got to them. Devious little stinkers! </div>
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So here are the pictures of the little girls and my uncooperative little man!</div>
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I cannot believe our little guy is two already! He is so much fun and so very spoiled by all of us! He is so much fun and he brings us so many laughs every single day!</div>
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For school today, Sophia had to write a sentence using the word scornfully. I know this sounds easy, but it kind of wasn't easy. We discussed it quite a bit and after a little bit we came up with being scared of a spider and talking scornfully about, in my words, hating the spider. So she goes to write her sentence and she is reading it out loud to me while writing. She says "She saw the spider and said scornfully, "I bad word spiders!" I was like "what???" And she repeated what she said. I asked her "bad word?" And then it hit me that I had said "hate spiders." In our house we don't use the word hate. It's just such a strong word and so generally with the littler kids I don't allow them to use it. But I used it and didn't even notice until she starting using "bad word" instead of hate. Well, what can I say? Lesson learned!</div>
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