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Schoolin' On the Road
Feb. 16, 2007
Brrrr!!!!!!!
It is sooooo cold. We were caught in that clipper that roared through the midwest and the east coast this past week and thought we were going to freeze to death. We were at home for most of last week while the dh did some repairs to the truck (they NEVER end) and because freight is so slow. Our dispatcher asked if we wanted to be home for the weekend last Monday and we said no....so we get a load that delivers 2 miles from my sister's house on Tuesday and then we didn't get a load again until this Tuesday, just as that nasty weather was hitting the Shenandoah Valley. We got out just ahead of it really hitting the house, but went west into the teeth of the storm.
We parked for the night in a rest area in Ohio and when we got up, there were 3-6 foot drifts around the truck and all of the trucks that were parked there were having trouble getting out of their parking spaces. Not only that, it was bitter cold (2 degrees + windchill). We waited for some of the trucks to fight their way out and then a couple of plow trucks showed up to plow the rest area out and we were able to wait for them to move some of the snow and then they helped us get off of the ice with some salt and away we went. We delivered yesterday in the Chicago metro area and it was so cold there that my hands hurt even with gloves on.
Things are looking up though.....we are on our way to Corpus Christie area where hopefully it will be warm and we won't have to be bundled up so much.
School is going well. We are still working on the same things that we have been all year, except for Christmas I bought the ds a drawing program that teaches him the mechanics of drawing so that he understands how to make his drawings look like what he wants them to, and he doesn't get so frustrated. He loves the program and wishes that he could do more than he is assigned each day. He loves the fact that he is able to draw something that looks like the teacher tells him it should. I like that he is learning way more than I understand about drawing by someone who teaches drawing for a living. It's a win/win situation and I would highly recommend the program which is call the Phonics of Drawing.
I'm still trying to find the best way to teach the multiplication tables to my son so that he memorizes them but does so in a fun way that is so intimidating. I have a couple of different programs that I haven't tried yet, but the ones that I have he thinks are "dumb" or the music is bad or whatever. I will keep trying because that is the one thing that we need to do that he hasn't mastered yet and it's partly laziness on his part and frustration on mine.
I think that's about all for now. I have really been picking up on my knitting and have created a knitting blog that for some reason seems to get more entries than this one does. If you want to see it it is at Knitting on the road.
Have a blessed week and I will post again soon. |
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