Little Teacher.

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This morning, my youngest son was going to try to sneak up my daughter and scare her. She said, in a very weary voice "I know what you are doing, I taught it to you."

Can't Go To Sleep.

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Tonight my youngest son was sitting up in bed playing. I told him to lie down and go to sleep. He said that he couldn't go to sleep for 3 reasons. First, he couldn't find his pillow, second, there were crumbs in the bed and third, "my game is just too fun." The "game" involved a stuffed animal snake and a squishy ball, a lot of wiggling and talking to himself. There were also quite a few sound effects. Gotta love those little boys.

Scheduling Woes.

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I'm trying to come up with a schedule for when we start back homeschooling and I honestly have no idea how to fit it all in. I feel like every person on the planet, just about, is more organized than I am. For my fall schedule I'd like to find time to do KONOS, math, Spanish, chores, personal hygeine, spelling, notebooking, library days, co-ops on Fridays, 3 days a week of going to Curves (alone!) and my job and, oh yeah, housework, grocery shopping, church, and kid's clubs on Wednesday nights, not to mention family functions, birthday parties, doctor's appointments, visiting family and other incidental things. If I could find the secret of getting the kids to work independently, this would not be as much of a problem, but I haven't found the secret yet. Maybe if I put some desks for them right beside mine or move my desk to the kitchen, then I could work while they do their schoolwork. I could take time out from typing to give them the evil eye or an encouraging nod every now and then. As it is now, if I assign them work, then go into my bedroom to do medical transcription, they stop working, 'forget' they even have schoolwork and start doing something else. :-(

Better Now.

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My mysterious back pain is going away. Hopefully it will be completely gone soon. No more living in fear of sneezes, I hope! I'm going back to work now.

My Back is Out, Out, Out!

The day before yesterday and most of the day yesterday, I kind of had a twinge in my back. Last night, I went to a homeschool meeting and during the meeting, it kind of stiffened up more; then on the drive home, even more. By bedtime last night, I couldn't move any body part, including my toes, or even hiccup without my back hurting. This morning, I can barely move. I'm living in fear that I will sneeze!

Another Abridged/Unabridged Rant.

I was trying to find a link for an unabridged version of Swiss Family Robinson. I have a copy here at home that I think is an unabridged version. It was printed in 1963 so I think probably it is? Anyway, I tried to find a version on Amazon that was unabridged and all I could find was an audio tape copy. I think it should be easier to tell on Amazon and other sites whether a book is unabridged or if most of the interesting parts have been removed (abridged.) Grrr.

Swiss Family Robinson

You can't judge a book . . . Getting Blogged.

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Last night I decided to sneak in a little of the KONOS curriculum on resourcefulness by suggesting that we read "Swiss Family Robinson". My daughter looked at the cover and said "I don't want to read it. It doesn't look good." I actually got to say "You can't judge a book by its cover." and actually, literally mean a book. Anyway, we agreed that I will preread it somewhat before I read it to them, in case it has scary parts. I've begun reading it this morning and am enjoying it very much, so far.

On another topic, I got frustrated about something and said "poop" and my 7-year-old said teasingly "I don't want to poop!" My 8-year-old thought this was the most hilarous thing in the world and said to him "You know you're getting blogged!" I didn't think the poop part was all that funny, being a little bit older than 10 myself, but the "you're getting blogged" part is very funny to me because it shows that she is tuned in to what I might blog about. I think that it is interesing. We have a new expression at our house 'getting blogged'.

Hotel Lobby.

This is the lobby of the hotel we stayed in our recent local getaway. Before we got there, I thought this was an outdoor area, but it turns out, it had a 5 story atrium lobby. The windows you see in the background are room windows. We had one of the little balconies. We really enjoyed this hotel and we had an incredible price through Hotwire, which they probably don't want me to share, but it was really good, trust me.