Several good things about today.

First of all, we got quite a bit done this weekend that we've been procrastinating about. We got our bedroom rearranged and, wow, does it seem like there's more room in here. It's crazy how much of a difference just moving things can make. I also took some junk from the backyard down to the road for our annual bulky item pickup, which is when the trash service will take your bulky, big items to the dump for you. It's nice. I got some books listed on ebay. All of these things I've been procrastinating about for some reason, so it feels really good to get them done.

Another good thing about today is that I get to go to Chili's tonight with the homeschool moms from our group. It's a combination mom's night out and planning meeting to plan activities and field trips for the next 3 months. I love Chili's so I'll enjoy that.

Also, I don't have to work today, which is always good. I think I may do a few jobs just because I'm behind in my work, but I don't have to. For some reason, that's an important distinction!

My youngest son was the one having nightmares last night. He said that he'd had a bad dream in which his friend Jacob was here visiting and instead of doing cool stuff, he wanted to watch Barney. And the worst part? "I had to watch it with him." he said. ;-)

Sock Hop Report.

It was funny. The girls, dressed in nearly identical poodle skirts with their hair in ponytails, danced and played in the dance area. The boys went outside or upstairs to play bionicles or guitars. The parents sat around in the food area and ate and talked about when we were in high school and every time a boy walked by, we'd ask him if he wanted to dance. They always answered "No". I forgot to take my camera with me and took this picture after we got home, of my daughter's poodle skirt. My husband took his camera to the party so I'll see if there are any photos to share on his computer later.

Homeschool Event Today.

Believe it or not, we're having a sock hop with the homeschool group, with 50s music, poodle skirts, the works. It should be fun. I'm trying to think if I can count this as school ....

Last night.

I dreamed that I was doing my regular errands on a motorcycle. I had my 15 year old sitting on the back and my younger 2 kids riding in a side car. I was trying to make a call on my cell phone, driving down the 4 lane Dixie highway, when I woke up. I guess it got too crazy, even for me, at that point!

I think of things to blog about all day long.

When I'm away from my computer that is. I remember thinking of about 3 things I was going to write about tonight while we were at the library, but now I can't remember any of them. I had a very nice time at the library anyway. I took the boys to game night, my daughter sat and read a book and I looked in every section, just about, and came home with 2 huge bags of books.

I do remember earlier today when we were talking about how many days of school we've done and how many we have left to do and I said we might just go straight through the summer and my daughter said indignantly "I'd rather do school in the summer than in the winter!" The funny thing is that she meant the opposite. She wants to swim all summer, not have school all summer. Anyway, we have about 56 days left to do, not too bad.

Good news Thursday.

We finally got approval to be foster parents. We started this process in, I think, July of last year. We couldn't do the July classes because of my husband's work schedule. We finally took our classes in October and now we're approved. Someone once told me that foster care involved a ton of waiting and I know it's true. Waiting is not really my best thing, but I'm getting better at it. At least I don't whine about it as much as I used to.

The Carnival of Homeschooling is up, here.

Today, we begin Italy in our country study. I'm going to go look for resources now.

A part of our conversation this morning.

I had opened my blog site to type an entry when my youngest came in and started talking to me about the Sonic the Hedgehog game. After a while, I just started typing what he said.

Him: "....it wasn't exactly Shadow it was the Black Hedgehog, the Black Hedgehog got killed and Shadow is his clone. The Black Hedgehog died 50 years ago. His powers are cloned off Sonic. So basically he's a mixture of a blue hedgehog and a black hedgehog with red stripes. . . Are you blogging me?"

Me: "Is that okay?"

Him: "Yeah, you can."

Anyone else watching Dancing With The Stars?

What did you all think of the eliminations last night of Penn Juliette and Monica Seles? I guess I felt like they were the right choices, it just seems like they could learn to dance if they had a few more weeks. I like both of them and kind of hated to see them go. I enjoy seeing what they wear. I'm more a fan of the long dresses than the bikini-type gownless evening straps that Edita seems to favor. I liked that blue dress that Marlee Matlin wore and I think she's doing great. Cheryl's dresses seem to be getting lower and lower in the back so that I'm not sure I'm brave enough to watch it next week. They are odd, really. It's like she doesn't want any cloth to touch her from neck to behiney (as Junie B. Jones would say). Anyway, I'm enjoying watching the new season.