Thursday 27 March 2008 - Random Slices of Life on a Thursday Evening
I'm back. I can blog again, although I'm not supposed to be doing so at the moment. I've taken my laptop downstairs to the school table, and my rule is that when I am on my computer at the school table, I am ONLY to do school planning. No email, no playing with pictures, no blogging...
Wait a sec.
OK, my laptop and I are sitting on the floor now, so I guess I can blog. But only briefly. I have tomorrow's work learning to plan and lists to tweak, because I feel so much happier when I wake up knowing I have the day all planned. (A rather rare circumstance, by the way, despite my ideals.) And I hope to get further on next week's history planning so that I can get these piles of books and papers off the table. That would be the "school table" by the way, which we really should call the "history table" since it is normally too cluttered with history stuff to do anything else there. I realized recently that, after 2-1/2 years of actually having a designated "school area", we have reached the point where more than half of our schoolwork is actually done elsewhere. Ah, yes, the one-house schoolroom.
Upstairs, Huz, Spaz and Fuzz have just finished watching Beethoven Lives Upstairs for the 143rd time. (OK, maybe for the 17th time. Not all in one night, of course.) I think that is my husband's favorite movie. Now that the movie is done, he and Spaz are having swordfights with foam swords. Shouldn't the kids be getting to bed?
Cheez is in her room, probably on her laptop, having arrived home from her restaurant hostessing job a little while ago. The cat is around somewhere, and the dog would be within 2 feet of Huz, as usual. Also as usual, she is barking her shrill, obnoxious bark because oh-my-goodness-people-are-moving-around-quickly.
Outside, it is snowing. We are supposed to get 2-3 inches tonight. We've had a record-breaking amount of snow this year, but this is the first snowfall in a week, I think. The past few days it has even been warm enough for the kids to have extended playbreaks outside- hooray! That makes such a difference in our schoolday.
Well, that's life at our house at the moment. What's going on at YOUR house right now? Leave me a comment or post about it yourself.
My coffee (with cream, yes, thank you) is cold and my table is still cluttered. Time for me to get off the floor, tuck Fuzz into bed, and get back to work.
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We had a little bit of snow Easter night and then again today. On & off this week, really, but it didn't stick. Boo!
Your house sounds a bit like mine. ;) Hubby's keeping those children up way too late... LOL!
I've been blogging about what we've been up to lately. Stop on by!
Love, Alyssa