Sep. 20, 2005 - Big News... distractions... and our first "real" art class...

We did Bible today, the kids played "memory" with cards that we wrote the memory verses on one card, then where it was found on another.  The kids seemed to actually remember the majority of them right off the bat!

Then we did our regular devotions, talked a bit about Helen Keller and how amazing she was.  We discussed how we take things for granted and how amazing Helen Keller was for having such amazing determination.  We got out our old timeline binder that we started three years ago, and read Sprite report on Helen Keller... it was really cool for the other kids to see what Sprite had done before.  I assigned each one of them a different person to do a bio page on for the timeline (later)

The kids then did their reading while I called the woman in charge of gymnastics.  I then arranged wth Stephanie to take P&A, while she dropped off her older two (S&J who are the same ages as my oldest two)

SOOOO ~ anyway, we continue with our day as usual, and my DH calls and says, "Hey, you know how you thrive on change?  Well (our landlord, who is also his boos) told me today that they want to put the house on the market no later than 45 days from now."  Wow.

Not that its something I can't handle... but I don't WANT to right now.  We just got things arranged and set up how we like it.  We have the walls painted like we wanted.  I am just so... confused.  This is just a big bomb dropped in the middle of my day that I did NOT need.  I guess that is what I get for telling a friend the other day that our lives had finally settled down and we'd come to some semblance of peace and order...

At that point, we continued our school day somewhat, although I was reeeeeally distracted. I planned out the Picasso art "course" for the month, and prepared for our first art day while the kids did independent reading time, drawing & writing on their biography assignments. 

Ugh. 

The other kids showed up, and we had a nice art class, I taught them a little about proportions, sketching out the beginnings of a face and learning placement of the eyes, etc.  We discussed color very briefly and how it conveys a mood...  I needed a chaos of colors, because my mind was just FLYING wth chaos about all the house thoughts.

So here I am, writing here, hoping that it will dispell a little of the stress accumulating in my stomach... my neck, my brain...

I was just getting so SETTLED!!!!!!! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr