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I woke up this morning to a gray, rainy day. PTL!! You see, we live in SW Florida and have been in drought conditions for several months. We are about 6" below our normal rainfall so far this year. So this rain is a reason to celebrate! Of course, days like these tend to make us all feel a bit "slow" and sleepy, too. Couple that with kids who have come down with the latest virus going around, and I can tell it is going to be one of "those" kind of days.
You know what kind of day I'm talking about...sleeping late, breakfast late, the kids just want to veg-out, and I don't think much "school" is going to happen around here. We've not been as consistent with our schooling the past 3 or 4 weeks as I would like, so it would be easy for me to get frustrated at our situtation today. However, I am resolved to allow this season to take its course, making the best of it along the way. As I wrote in yesterday's blog, today is a good day to pull out a couple of fun, simple math games that we haven't played in a while. It is also a good day to start our next read aloud, which I haven't had "time" to begin. Perhaps we will watch a bit more TV, but Discovery and History Channels have some interesting shows on their line up. My youngest asked if we could make cookies - I know, not exactly what you need when you are sick - but, we been busy running everywhere the past few weeks and he has been waiting patiently for me to have "time" to help him.
As I type this, I am reminded of the many "catch up" things I could get done today, since we obviously won't be doing much school and I don't have plans to be anywhere. I know I am going to have to resist the urge to do my own work and give myself permission to just cuddle up and enjoy a sleepy, rainy day with my boys. At 14 and 11 yrs. old, opportunities like today will soon be past and I can be left with memories of "Why didn't I take the time?" or "Wow, what a great time we had that day!" I think I'll choose the latter!
Time to bake those cookies :-)
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