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Schoolin' On the Road
Jan. 13, 2006
What a Bad......
blogger I am.
Here it has been more than a month since I blogged anything and so much has happened in that time.
We were finally able to make it home for Christmas (on the 23rd) and
had a nice time with my family. My oldest son turned 21 the 27th
and we all (his grandparents, my family and my sister's family and a
couple of his freinds) all went to breakfast at Cracker Barrel.
After breakfast was over and we went back to my sister's house and
packed we left her house to drive down to Virginia Beach for a couple
of days to visit my DH's oldest 3 sons. That was an interesting
visit, with the added benefit that we were able to farm out the DS for
a night and we got some alone time in a really nice beachfront
hotel. You know, when you live on a truck, you don't get a lot of
alone time, so we grab it when we can and thoroughly enjoy it.
We left to go back to work on the 30th and picked up a load going to
Arkansas, which was supposed to be on the way to Louisiana, where our
new trailer was finally awaiting us, or would be when we got to Monroe.
We sat from Monday to Wednesday and finally decided to eat the miles
that it would take us to get from a small town in the middle of
Arkansas to Monroe, LA. We got there Thursday and finally got our
new trailer outfitted the way the DH wanted it, or almost anyway, and
got a load on Monday, so we are back into the swing of things after
what seemed like an awfully long break.
I know that I am not the only one, but why is it that when kids get a
break, like DS did for the week of Christmas, they think that they
should just get a break whenever they want. He is constantly
begging to not have to do ______________ and he'll double up
tomorrow. I don't let him, of course, because not only does
he have to learn, he also needs the constant of a routine. I am
not a very routine person, so I sometimes find it hard to make him be a
routine person. My DH thinks we have no routine, but we must have
some because DS gets his work done everyday (usually before
mid-afternoon) and we don't usually have to nag too much.
I hope that anyone and everyone that reads this had a blessed Christmas
and was able to center your family on the true meaning of Christmas and
the joy that all of that entails. I know that sometimes in the
hustle and bustle of the commercial side it is so easy to get
sidetracked and lose what the baby in the manger really means to each
one of us, but I know and was reminded several times over the holiday,
just how special that one little child was for humanity. He came
and experienced life as a man so that we would not have to experience
death. what a joyous thing to contemplate.
I had mentioned in an earlier post about the DS breaking one of his
Bible discs for his schooling and not being able to replace it until
the Christmas break. We finally got it and he has already caught
up and finished all of the lessons that he was behind for October,
November and December, plus all of the new lessons. I think that
that has turned out to be his favorite subject for this year and I
encourage him with doing all the reading and study he wants to.
Until the next time we meet....
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