I woke up this morning to the continued downpour from last night. I shot up an arrow prayer for Kevin’s safe arrival home. And thought it might be a good day to claim I am still a bit under the weather and it isn’t even Monday!
Our school warm-up this morning was a gazillion hands of Go Fish, followed by twice as many hands of Uno. Reading lessons with crazy stories about big bugs and little bugs eating logs. Lots of Math manipulatives. I really love my job, it just doesn’t get any better than this. Hey, girls, did you do your Algebra today?
So, yeah, I went to another home school meeting this evening. This was more of an organizational meeting. You know “what are you going to do with all that spare time you have?” From the length of the list of suggested activities apparently some people actually do have spare time. Sorry I just showed up because I am desperate for a friend. And of course you know I just had to volunteer for something. So, yeah, in two weeks I am coordinating a scavenger hunt in all my spare time.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Monday, August 18, 2008
Back to School Night
Hmmmm, I guess I need to get started on recording our AR adventures. Kevin has already been here 9 months and we (me, the girls, and the little boys) have been here 2 months. How can that be? But I will spare you all the getting caught up and begin with today.
The good news is I have not been sick in a long while. The bad news is I had a terrible cold last week. I had forgotten how debilitating a cold could be. The good news for my kids is that I crawled into my bed and covered up my head for several days. The bad news for my kids is that today I was feeling better. So yeah, it was time to crack the whip ~ laundry, vacuuming, bathrooms, you know the drill.
Tonight was Back-to-School Swim night with the El Dorado home school group. Their official name is H.E.A.R.T. (Home Educated and Righteously Trained, I like that.) Our first real contact with AR home schoolers, our first real contact with families with children (not counting pleasantries in the grocery check-out line). It really felt strange being the new kid on the block. Of course word got around quickly that we had SIX children, and 2 of them had already successfully finished High School. So the new family is really a veteran family. After almost 20 years of home schooling, I really don’t need a support group. I think I have the basics figured out. But wait a minute. We are now living in a small community where I don’t have ANY friends, no connections. And worse, my teen daughters don’t have any friends.
So, yeah, we need a support group. As a matter of fact, I’m going to the Camden support group meeting tomorrow night. Will someone please be my friend?
The good news is I have not been sick in a long while. The bad news is I had a terrible cold last week. I had forgotten how debilitating a cold could be. The good news for my kids is that I crawled into my bed and covered up my head for several days. The bad news for my kids is that today I was feeling better. So yeah, it was time to crack the whip ~ laundry, vacuuming, bathrooms, you know the drill.
Tonight was Back-to-School Swim night with the El Dorado home school group. Their official name is H.E.A.R.T. (Home Educated and Righteously Trained, I like that.) Our first real contact with AR home schoolers, our first real contact with families with children (not counting pleasantries in the grocery check-out line). It really felt strange being the new kid on the block. Of course word got around quickly that we had SIX children, and 2 of them had already successfully finished High School. So the new family is really a veteran family. After almost 20 years of home schooling, I really don’t need a support group. I think I have the basics figured out. But wait a minute. We are now living in a small community where I don’t have ANY friends, no connections. And worse, my teen daughters don’t have any friends.
So, yeah, we need a support group. As a matter of fact, I’m going to the Camden support group meeting tomorrow night. Will someone please be my friend?
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