Straight Arrows Academy
Aug. 12, 2005
My first entry - yikes!
Well, here we go.  A blog.  I can't believe I'm really writing in one.  Sort of scary to think of sharing my thoughts w/the rather random world-wide-web. 

Right now, ds1 is "catching" ds2 as he (ds2) jumps off the desk I told him to stop jumping off of.  Excuse me while I put an end to this eyebrow-raising activity ;-).  Disaster and injury successfully averted for the time being.  Ds2 is now occupied with his electronic Superman cape, while ds1 is staring at his handwriting notebook - whether he's hoping it spontaneously generates the required writing for him, I'm not sure, but at least nobody's getting hurt.

Today is also the first day I'm kicking the caffeine habit (again).  This should be fun - not. LOL.  As I stare mournfully at my caffeine-free Diet Pepsi (didn't say I was kicking the pop habit yet - that will have to be next), I am bracing myself for the pounding headache to come.  I decide these things rather randomly.  I thought I was going to wait until the week after next, since we won't have school, but then when I was about to get my next 12-pack of caffeine-loaded beverage of choice, I thought to myself "Why not start tomorrow instead?"  HA.  So here I am. 

  Our Star Wars birthday party was yesterday, but the SW saga still lives on in our house.  Ds2 not only has his Superman cape on (received for his b-day y'day from G'ma aka MIL), he's got a fierce look on his face as he races around w/his blue light saber.  My kids are obsessed w/Star Wars.  I can see some of this has character building value, but not much of it . How many times can I hear the SW theme "sung" by a 4yo or an 8yo?  Thankfully, though dd loves SW, too, she refrains from the theme song ;-).  You know this is getting old because the SW track is, IMO, a fabulous piece of music. 

Now I am rambling, but I guess that is the point of this, right?  Off to make lunch and make sure the kids are finishing their school work.  Last week and this week are "school lite" for us.  Next week, a bit more work involved, but that's ok.  After next week, we have 2 weeks off!  Whee!


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