Multitasking boy revisited.

A couple of weeks ago I shared a picture of my youngest son walking, carrying a sword and reading.  Apparently, he's given the problem of  trying to live life while constantly reading a lot of thought.   He wants to invent a reading device that will store infinite books, automatically turn the pages with thought signals, that is waterproof (for reading while showering) and that hovers at the perfect reading distance and lights up at night.

I want one.

Ooh, ooh, also, I want it to be able to start reading aloud to me when my eyes get tired.

Wednesday not Windsday.

It's not windy at all today.  I guess the storm is finished now.  Personally, I didn't find it all that troubling.  I got where I needed to go and did what I needed to do.  It was raining and a little windy.  Apparently, I everywhere I was going, I was missing the main part of the storm.  Several times I saw limbs down as if a more violent storm had just passed through, but was now over.  There was a mix-up with the dentist appointments.  One of us wrote down the wrong time.  I wrote down 1:00 o'clock and the dentist's receptionist wrote down 2:00.  Since we couldn't stay until 2:00 because of my podiatrist appointment, we rescheduled for today.  Ah well. 

I got quite a bit of work done last night on my book.  I'm enjoying writing it.   I do wish I had a better keyboard here at the house.  This one I'm typing on now has a very hard to press space bar and makes my hand hurt when I type a lot.

I haven't, as yet, made changes in the kid's homeschool schedules. I am planning that for next week.  The homeschool lecture I went to a few weeks ago made me feel as if I needed to make some changes, but I haven't implemented them yet.  I need to figure out what to take out when I put other things in and with my horribly slow internet at home, quick internet at my mom's house, printer at home and no printer at my mom's house and no flash drive to carry things back and forth, it's been kind of difficult to pull it all together.  Add to that, the fact that I've been working quite a bit on my Cafepress store when I'm at mom's and the other fact that I'm kind of a scatterbrain and the other fact, that I've been very busy and somewhere in there you have my excuse as to why I haven't changed anything yet.                                                    

Windy day.

We are supposed to have a storm today.  It's already very, very windy.   There are severe storm warnings.  I'm just trying to ignore it all and get my work done.  It's really a shame this isn't happening on Wednesday, so I could say "Happy Windsday" to people.  I miss Winnie the Pooh now that my kids are all big.  I watched a ton of it when my oldest was little.  I also watched a lot of Barney, but I can't really say that I miss him now.  Today, the kids have got dentist appointments today, for the 2 who missed going to the dentist because of aerospace camp and then I'm going to the podiatrist (my foot is better!) and then back to work.   Hopefully, I will be able to travel through this storm and get where I need to go!

A few things to supplement what we are reading.

My Side of the Mountain -Teacher Vision

Ranger's Apprentice - Teacher Vision

Animorphs Lesson Plans

Trying to write a book.

November is national novel writing month and I started one last year.  I think I got about 10 pages.  This year, I'm starting early and I'm writing a nonfiction book, not a novel.  I'm going to write a book about how to do a gluten free diet and try and self publish it.  I am going to ask my blog readers to be my cheerleaders.  Every couple of days, between now and the end of November, it would be nice if someone said "Hey, how's that book coming?" or "Still working on the book?"  I hope it will help me stay on track to get it done! 

Shopping, shopping.

One of my favorite comedians, Henry Cho, says that there is a difference between just stopping to get a few things which is "shopping" and serious shopping, which is referred to as "shopping, shopping."  My daughter and I went shopping shopping today.  We finished work and school and then went to several stores buying her some new clothes which she desperately needed, then finished up with a Friday night trip the the grocery, which I really don't recommend.  It took us 27 minutes to get the groceries gathered up from all over the store and 17 minutes to check out.  Whew.

I did save about 11 dollars with coupons I got from The Coupon Clippers though. :D

As usual, rethinking.

I'm thinking about readjusting our school schedule.   Again.   The thing is we're just not getting some things done and they bug me being on the schedule and not getting done so I am going to have to either take them off or get busy doing them.  Nine times out of ten, probably the reason we don't get them done is that I don't feel like it.  Yes, frequently it is Mom who has the attitude problem.  The kids will do it if I tell them they have to.   We are getting the basics in, but sometimes the extras get pushed aside and procrastinated about.  Today I don't feel all that great because I have a headache and an inner ear infection but I did read part of My Side of the Mountain which we need to read for our Bring a Book To Life field trip next month.   We were also supposed to sand the woodworking project chair, but we couldn't find sandpaper so we didn't.  Sometimes I feel that if I were a good homeschool teacher, I'd know where the sandpaper is but I've just got to work with what I've got. limited attention span, limited time and sometimes limited ambition.  Ah well.  Most of it gets done and the basics are always covered in the first 2 days of the week.  That makes me feel somewhat better.

Nothing really

exciting happened today.  I worked.  The kids did school.  I got a lot of calls made that I needed to make.  I'm helping to plan a field trip for next month so I did some planning for that.  I did some grocery shopping for Mom while the kids were at youth group. I cooked steak, potatoes and corn in the crock pot again.  This is the kind of day you long for when you're having one of those awful, eventful days, like you're in the hospital ER or something.  It was a pretty good day.