Aug. 17, 2006 - So far, so good!
Yesterday J left for Chicago with my mom to help take care of Isabel and new baby Will. It's so quiet around here! They called a couple of times en route and sounded like they were having a great time, though it took them a LONG time to get there with all the stops they made.
I miss her lots. It helped that I worked for Ruthi yesterday. R was in my office while I was reading some e-mail this morning and he was just standing there and bouncing (and driving me crazy). He admitted he is bored without her! I love that my kids count on each other for companionship, even though they often act as if they'd rather eat a worm than be in the same room. Sadly, usually they do that for the benefit of whatever friends may be around. I do work on that with them.
Today R and I got a full day of school in. I now have all our books that we'll need for the year. Except today I figured out that I may have shorted myself on my order. You see, I ordered yet another art curriculum that just arrived. Last year both kids' art lessons stayed on the shelf because I am so intimidated by my lack of art ability. As I was planning out our God and the History of Art lessons, I was reading ahead, noting what copies I needed to make and discovered that I should try to do the lessons too! So I made three copies of each exercise, we started today and I LOVED it. I think I am going to have to order my own set of paint and marker cards. We also started with Igniting your Writing (I think that's the title.) I still need to get a paper copy printed since my printer is dead, but I didn't let that stop us. R didn't even protest too much about doing writing, so I think this curriculum may be a winner too! The only thing we haven't started this week is the Sabbath preparations. With J being gone this week and us going to our neighbor's cabin this weekend, it wasn't a good week to do it. But I am glad I started the rest of our lessons.
Tonight I am going to a field test group. I think we are trying out crackers? I could be completely wrong. If I get there 15 minutes early, my name could be drawn to double the pay for tonight. Do I feel lucky?
Not particularly, but life is good!
Comments
Aug. 18, 2006 - hi from another MFW user
Posted by WhisperingPinesSchool
Hi Lori
just thought I'd stop by your blog a bit. I'm doing EX1850 this year with my 5th and 2nd graders. dont' know why I have a blog, I guess there are things that just don't belong on the message boards.
--crystal
