Your comment has been received AnnMarie so here's your catch up post...
Sometimes I forget I have a blog and totally forget to even think about updating it. Particularly if I am just going along with every day normal, BUSY life. So, here's a quick, update on life around here quick takes style.
1. We are 4 weeks away from the end of our school year and every single morning I'm tempted to just call it a year and be done. I have to really give myself a pep talk to finish the "race." I'm so ready to be done because there are so many other things going on and fitting school in is a pain. With that said, I am still in the "race," for now at least. The girls are down to their last two weeks or so of virtual school and of course I'm not going to quit that so close to the end. Instead I just nag and nag and pressure and stuff to get them to do more and do it faster even if it's wrong. Just GET IT DONE! Joe is doubling up on language arts lessons and Geography worksheets in an effort to finish those two books. We are slogging along at one math lesson a day but if this has to go into the summer I'm okay with that since it's done independently on the computer. We are going to Alaska in June so I made a cool Alaska packet for the kids to do, Hannah finished hers completely in about an hour one day but Grace and Joe haven't started. Hannah does everything fast which is why she will probably be the first one done with her school year. She's got a couple of more weeks in her Total Language Plus, The Hiding Place and she has to finish Virtual school Science and we are trying to get through one more chapter of Algebra before picking it up again in the fall. Four weeks away! Unless I quit sooner.
2. May is the new December at my house. I am never busier in the year than in May. In just the first two weeks of May this year I'll be going to Georgia for my nephew's graduation from Basic Training (can I get a woohoo?!?), spending 1 1/2 days with the Senior Tour theatre kids going to schools and performing a show they wrote about bullying. Attending and working and watching 7 Seussical shows. Taking and picking up kids from theatre rehearsal every weekday between now and those 7 shows. Oh, and of course, cooking, cleaning, schooling, etc. Then, in the last 2 or 3 weeks of May we do another Senior Tour day, finish school, I will be attending a homeschool convention, and then driving to Georgia again to spend a week hanging with the fam. Yep, May is going to be crazy but fun and full of memory making events!
3. I'm reading a lot, it's how I relax at night after my busy days. I just finished a YA book called Make Lemonade that was really good and so heart warming and inspirational about a young girl really helping change the life of another young girl. I am in the middle of reading Glennon Melton's (of Momastery) book, Carry On, Warrior. I love her style of writing and her transparency. I am also reading Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn. I've been in line for this book at the library for about 6 months and I only get it for a week but it's so good I will probably be done with it over the weekend if I get some good reading time (like I'm expecting!). I also have a big stack of books that I'm excited about reading...I know I just said how crazy my life is and it is crazy busy but there is ALWAYS time to read!
4. My girls are growing up so fast and I don't like it! I feel like I'm swimming upstream as I try to raise them right, instill values, protect them just enough, give them just enough exposure to the world, and so on. I wish I didn't care so much because it's stressful and hard and relentless. Hannah's latest thing is wanting to read adult books, specifically Jodi Picoult books. Some of her books are okay I think but when I read them I wasn't paying attention to the content and how appropriate it was for a 13 year old. I am trying to tell Hannah to slow down and read books written for her age while she's still young. She has a lifetime to read the adult books. With that said....many of the YA books are actually worse as far as sexual content and language than adult books! So, for now I've told her she can read Nicholas Sparks and Richard Paul Evans, and My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult. In the meantime I am always on the lookout for books that are modern (she doesn't like "old" books or fantasy or science fiction) but relatively clean.
I gotta go, I'm supposed to be leaving my house in about 20 minutes to go see a show in Orlando.
Peace out, peeps!
2 comments:
Jane has read a lot of YA books. Some have been worse than adult books. Thankfully she is on to YA memoir type books that are more historical in nature. Both she and Kate read The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. They loved it. Not sure if you or Hannah have already read it. It is sad, but good. Jane told me she was going to read every book in the YA section by the end of the summer. She started and immediately told me she was not going to follow through because there really were so many foolish YA books and she can't waste her time.I had more comments but now I have forgotten everything. Oh, yes, I agree, caring about your kids takes so much energy. There just seems to be so many things to worry about. These are the toughest years in my opinion. Everyday something new seems to pop up to concern myself with regarding their well being. Thank you for listening to me and updating. Very kind of you !
Thanks for the update!
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