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seemed too good to be true i made some phone calls to insurance brokers and researched the taxes and did the math to compare the rental s monthly payment to what our monthly payment would be on this house it looked like the purchase would be cheaper but we were scared and have never purchased a house and weren t sure we would love it since it was in a packed subdivision and not right near the water and didn t have a super big back yard and what if a hurricane floods it and then we have to renovate it i asked jared to pray about it while i went to lunch with mason who happened to be in town blessing 5 mason talked me through it with his super grounded and finance knowledge based logic of why it would make the most sense in this case to purchase unless the house had some serious damage to it as we drove down to galveston and by the time i got back at 3ish all i wanted to do was go back to that house i sat out on the front lawn scheming and then knocked on the door of each neighbor as mason had suggested to get an idea of the neighborhood and anything they knew about the house only positive things it had new paint on all interior borders and new carpet and was super clean it was nice and spacious and interesting and in a convenient location finally jared and i decided to bite the bullet and put in an offer i went over to lynette s house turns out she lives very nearby and is also lds and we filled out the offer for asking price and put it in at the very end of the business day that night the owners accepted the offer and the next day we got an inspection set up blessing 6 lynette found out more about why the house was so much more reasonably priced than other houses in the school zone it was owned by a corporation that rents out houses and they were liquidating some of their inventory and just wanted some quick cash more than they cared to get top dollar for the house blessing 7 so the house had been used as a rental and didn t have any sentimental value the inspection showed that it was in good shape overall blessing 8 although jared and i were still dubious and worried that something unexpected would pop up the owner corporation was willing to negotiate with us a little and then it was time for me to go home to minot and start the major legwork of figuring out financing and insurance and all that stuff we d never had to learn about before the family and kids quotes may 2019 on may 26 2019 january 13 2020 by marenbrinkerhoff in uncategorized leave a comment lorenzo has been such a mischievous thief lately he steals random things for no reason out of rooms he s not supposed to get into and hides them we have an area sectioned off of things we re getting rid of for our move and he keeps getting in to it and un doing my sorting work he especially likes to steal and sneak elijah s legos to play with he is deliberately disobedient more consistently and intentionally than i can remember any other of our children being but penitent when caught his shrieking and whining has reduced though he doesn t nap some days and has slept in much later a few times than he ever used to if he does nap he stays up late we had to black out his window with curtains and take the lightbulbs out of his room light to get him to stop playing and go to sleep this last week or two he doesn t suck his thumb as much to sleep anymore recently when given the option to eat one small piece of brownie after lunch and another after dinner or eat one larger brownie after dinner only lorenzo and elijah chose to eat the bigger piece later i was impressed he is still very sensitive to mean or scary things in movies or books he doesn t want to read horton hears a who because it is sad to him when the monkeys steal the little person that horton is trying to help and protect hugging jared and i as we hugged each other and then devolving into just hugging me and then further devolution into patting my chest elijah oh boobs more boobs more boobs me daddy and i are just stressed about the move and stuff so we feel like there s stuff to do and like we can t just relax and play even when there s nothing more we can do eva well there s not so the end jared picks up a heavy box and shuffles by lorenzo lorenzo i think you re going to die elijah has a stomach illness maren do you want me to get you anything to drink elijah yes please but no alcohol after watching a bible video ll thou act as if thine grumpy cuz thou stinketh jared have you lost your marbles lorenzo what marbles while being restrained during church by jared lorenzo i m going to eat your head lorenzo don t steal my legos lorna lia i would like to lorenzo why lorna lia because sometimes i m just not very nice eva why is my life so awesome loli maybe because we didn t get one of those boring junk food parents eva is so excited and happy all the time and wants to work on prepping for the move and looking for houses online every day she is excited and nervous to go to girls camp for the first time in early june elijah is wanting to start working to earn money and buy himself some more legos and a drone and some drawing stuff his methods are something like this i want you guys to pay me some money what should i do ll is getting some unfortunate fortunate backlash for teaching certain bad behaviors by example to lorenzo it s really coming back to haunt her we hope this will be a helpful lesson she and i have been quite affectionate lately i was going to take the kids on one last road trip this time to the north and east fargo duluth lake superior winnipeg but it doesn t look like we can do that now we have been picking through each room to get rid of everything not worth bringing with us and it is so exciting the most exciting thing of all is that we have a house to move to more jaredisms on may 22 2019 january 27 2020 by marenbrinkerhoff in uncategorized leave a comment i lack the energy necessary to generate the additional fecal matter required to donate to your cause me can you imagine moving in with someone else s 4 year old and having to treat them nicely so you don t anger your new wife even though the kid is a total brat that would be so hard jared maren that very thing happened in our house this morning he had gotten mad at lorenzo for something i deemed unreasonable so i got mad at him for raising his voice at my baby jared got back from 9 days in guam on may 1 took a nap and then slept from 11pm 11 30am and upon waking up did the laundry and told the kids they were going to play a fun game called is it dirty each kid had to sniff through all the pants they had put into the dirty clothes baskets and admit before the heavens and the earth that most of what they had thrown in there was not in fact dirty and that they had just been too lazy to put it back in their drawers jared even took it to the point of requiring them to name for him the parts of the pants that would be stinkiest the bum and crotch and he pointed out to them that if they felt it was disgusting for them to smell their own pants they should imagine what it was like for their parents to have to do so for them and thus he hopefully got us one big step forward towards something that we have worked on for at least a couple years now thanks jared oh he ll be fine kids are made of rubber and magic me i do understand that you love me but sometimes i don t understand why jared well i d explain it to you but you re pretty thick about a man who complained to jared about his wife and tried to make himself sound like the victim when jared already knows he has abused his wife he thinks he s playing chess but he s playing checkers homeschooling wrap up on april 28 2019 january 27 2020 by marenbrinkerhoff in uncategorized leave a comment some of the things we ve read as a group this year are cleopatra biography george washington biography 4 books of the chronicles of narnia john paul jones biography el principito the little prince el diario de pedro cristopher colombus story despereaux belleza negra black beauty el patito feo the ugly duckling cosas que pasan cada dia a collection of strange stories about ordinary objects from a lithuanian author el ggb the bfg el superzorro the fantastic mr fox an illustrated compendium of mythology from 15 different cultures a history of significant events from around the globe since civilization began and more but that s what i can remember off the top of my head each kid also read their own books in spanish every day here are some evita the boy and the sea natacha the giver i juan de pareja danny champion of the world slacker gallinas supergallinas elijah the flying boy 1 and 2 natacha charlie and the chocolate factory james and the giant peach danny champion of the world slacker ll 7 books from the puppies series matilda james and the giant peach a cricket in times square my name is maria isabel and 5 magic treehouse books eva has said that she gets so much more cultural learning at home than she ever did in public school and loves that i am so happy about that we have done some great reading and are always finding things on the globe and talking about different ways people think and do things we did accomplish all of school being in spanish this year if we didn t have access to something in spanish i didn t include it in school so for a couple hours most days everything they heard and read and wrote was in spanish everything they said was also supposed to be in spanish but that was harder to accomplish there was much frequenting of the phrase hablame en espanol and those who had to be told too many times did not earn their full points for the day some of the 5 homeschooling moms in our ward are pretty motivated about finding fun field trips to go on so we ve gotten to tag along with those going to the fire station where one dad works and to the air museum as a group for free that was super cool elijah had to be reminded not to answer all the questions nor take over as the tour guide this tour guide was awesome it was a little unfortunate to be the one homeschooling mom in minot as far as i could tell doing school in spanish there were some regular activities that would have been really cool to participate in with homeschooling groups here but they didn t fulfill my main purpose it was such a relief to shed at the beginning of this school year the burden of trying to balance both the main purpose of my homeschooling here in minot maintaining these kids spanish and another priority that i love which is taking advantage of all benefits and opportunities ever last year i couldn t keep my balance and it was torturous this year i gave up on taking counsel from my fomo and it made this year so much more streamlined and focused and less stressful and i m very happy to be coming to the end of the year and still be benefiting from that decision when ll and elijah interviewed this week with a spanish teacher at their hopefully future school she was having them read samples from their grade level that were ridiculously easy for them they did really poorly with spontaneously remembering vocabulary but with their reading i think they both showed that they were several grades ahead i think all the kids are ahead of their grade level in social studies and science but maybe not in all areas of those subjects we were not systematic in these subjects eva is working on 7th grade math right now and elijah s working on 3rd and 4th grade at the same time ll is finishing up a k 2nd grade math unit which i guess means she is finishing 2nd grade math and will be done right on time to end school at the end of may we may end sooner like mid may with the move occupying my mind so much as we simply finish books we re reading and units we re studying in each subject and don t pick up something new to continue on with but since there s only so much one can do 6 weeks in advance of their movers coming it has been good to have school to ground me in the present and give us purpose and routine every day when we stop homeschooling i really want to continue reading together from our books in spanish over the summer and beyond we have a good stock that i want to take advantage of i m a bit of a spanish book deal finding junkie now and it s taken some self control to accept that that needs to stop until further notice i m hoping our books and resources will still serve us in the future it is possible that after jared s residency we move somewhere where i m their only spanish education again in that case i might take up homeschooling again it s also possible that they won t get into these dual language programs i m gunning for in both cases my solutions would be books and travel to latin america i hope i can make it happen i m really glad i did this and really excited to be done with it dominating my mornings i m really glad it s almost over i really do want to continue the group readings because it has been precious time with these great kids i hope it all pays off i hope it did more good than harm from my moments of impatience and frustration i hope my kids don t get eaten alive in public school or come home with all sorts of cultural vices that i had forgotten were so wonderful to not be exposed to i hope my kids get a better education in many ways than what i was giving them i hope they retain the parts of their home education that were better for them than public school could offer so here is my offering i really tried posts navigation older posts the brinks find your favorite post search for search one of these might be your blog soo happy it s true adam and laurel burch family adventures in the land of the littles adventures with azure aguilar amor asia gone buckeye go brinkerbots caudle family celebrate your life david kelli tyson zachary dear goodness falling uphill g force 4 gellin like magellan happy little turner family harmon fam in tune with it s a low life jamie living life johnson road julianne s journal lamm fam life after marriage 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