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Sunday, November 27, 2011

Thanksgiving 2011

  What a nice holiday.  I will clap myself on the back and say the food was good.  I tried to make everyone's favourites.   I hope everyone had a wonderful one with family and friends.  My inlaws were here.  It was a nice visit, though it had some tense days.  Schooling was of course brought up, and that set the tone for the week.  Nothing was mentioned aloud of our eating, but the whispering was there, and that was annoying.  I held my tongue for once.  I really miss being around the rest of our family during the holidays.  It's a large and loud family.  Things are fun and interesting!
 
   I realized today that I have to plan the school week.  I completely forgot.  I'm happy I filed away the last week of school before holiday vacation.  I'm happy with our progress, so there are no real complaints.  This will possibly be a review week.

  Today I also reorganized my kitchen.  The cupboards should flow much nicer now.  Of course I went to the wrong one at least three times already.  Next I need to organize the guest room and office closets.  They bug me.

  On that note, a good friend of mine had her baby on Thanksgiving.  What a surprise.  I am very happy for her.  It's bitter-sweet and maybe that's wrong, but it's how I feel.  I wonder if I shall ever get past that.

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Yer Blues

  I like the Beatles, guess that explains the title.  But I am feeling a bit blue.  Perhaps I'm just tired.  The school year is going well, at least I think so.  My husband is teaching the two days that I work, and I think that's great.  He and the boys are learning how to school and do whatever it is boys do.
  I like my job.  The people are nice.  Because it's a low cost vet clinic, I don't feel like I robbed someone, when I leave work.  I meet quite the array of interesting people.
  Co op is going wonderful.  We haven't been able to meet with our TWIGGS co op at all this year.  They meet on the same day that we have classes at our other co op, and the field trips are on days that I work.  It's a little disappointing  but there's not much I can do about it.  I am very happy with our curriculum this year.  Phonics Road 2 is excellent so far, as is Singapore math.  We've done a unit study on weather-we have quite the little meteorologist, and will be starting a unit on rocks.  The little guy is doing a little more letter work.  My husband is a little frustrated that he doesn't know all the letters yet, but he'll be fine.  I didn't teach our oldest to read until a little after he turned 5.  And we are slowly going through the history timeline.  The boys are both enjoying Egypt currently, and being mummies!