More Rain

This last week has been Busy. Ive heard and seen a few comments about how the Houston Adressed Tropical Storm Bill. Living in an area That was predicted for up to 15 inches I want to say a few things. Over the last month Its been very wet. Just two weeks ago or so I posted about all the flooding that we got from just a thunderstorm. All of the rain has saturated the area we have not been able to mow our grass yet unless you own a commercial lawn mower. The News have made a few comments  after nothing happened about how Houston Went to the grocery store to prep like it was a hurricane. We were instructed to prep for more onslaught. That We would Flood and Power would go out. That the tropical storm would bring in more water on top of our water and that we needed to prepare for days without electricty and possibly drinking water from flooding. By tuesday 4pm A report was issued that they Over predicted the storm and how much rain it would have brought in But all the prepardness came Monday not Tuesday. Monday night we were told it would make land fall and to prepare. Weather is unpredictable It stalled for over 6 hours before making land fall. We were told as it moved across land our area would act like a brown ocean and possibly strengthen the storm which it did not. Weather is Unpredicatable But There was a few post and comments made On air That made it feel like the Weathermen of our area was in a sense laughing at us for over preparing". And if anything I wanted to get my tiney little voice out there.

With the rain great ample oppurtunity to make a few prompto lessons. Living in the south our grocery stores are filled with Hurrican tracking phamplets. They are a great introduction for Geography. Latitude longitude, Names of areas. And A good Science lesson on WEather. Esp with how unpredictable this tropical storm moved and acted. It seams Cliche but It really is a great lesson. Sixth grade geography teachers make posters of different hurricans or just cordinates  and put them out of order in the hallways and have kids go in groups to figure out what is where and match them up as a lesson plan why not do the same. 

This last week ive also been trying to make lessons out of movies. Watch a movie, read a book, Here is more detail about what is going on in the movie/book. Im really excited And would love input when I have more Set up to share

Last Friday Was Daddy daughter dance at the local town hall. I think me and Chris was more excited than anything. Chris Did not take any photos.But he said they had a lot of carnival style food nachos, popcorn, Hotdogs. they had a lot of games set up and from I could make out the Same games as the market walk Giant connect four and jenga.  My Little one had tons of fun the first thirty minutes before people started showing up and then there was too many people for her to enjoy herself. It soon became I want to go home. 

So There wasnt much that happened.

 This little section of photos is a impromptu reading from daddy at the local walmart. Little Girls wanted to read and picked out some books ro read. and we stopped and indulged Its off the beat but Ill take any moement. And some of the work sheets from a premade preschool book that we worked on. Delilah can already do these worksheets pretty easily if i stop to work with her. U whats the Same?

And Last night we said goodbye to another family member our Little Dog Zoe. Our children are not immune to death. My dad and grandfather passed away Last year. The most affected are Chris as The little dog was his last link in a way to his parents. It was his moms dog before she passed away then his dad and the ours. And my grandmother who doted on the small dogs. And of course the other small dog who keeps looking for her. We dont fully know why Zoe passed away. Its probably a combination of a few things. Like she was 12 years old at least. We brought in a shelter dog that had Kennel Cough which could have been pneumonia and passed it on. and Delilah loved Zoe and would sometimes play too rough. So Just a combination or even anything else could have been it with the weather we dont know. But we know that she will be missed greatly and her Presense missing is already being felt.