Posted in Journal on Jun 20th, 2006 1 Comment »
Now that Aidan’s surgery is past, I feel energetic for the first time in about a month. I am looking at the house, wondering how it got so bad without me really being aware of it.
This is my basic system, when I have a system:
Daily Focus
Weekly Focus
I have these jobs written on colored […]
Posted in special needs, Journal on Jun 19th, 2006 1 Comment »
Aidan’s surgery went well
I will sum up Monday in a few words:
Significant PMS.
Trying to keep a post-surgical but active pre-reader a “couch potato” for the day, per doctor’s orders.
5 hours of interrupted and nightmarish sleep the previous night, in a strange bed.
Weather — temperature in the 90’s, no airconditioning, hay fever.
A panic attack when I […]
Posted in Living and learning on Jun 18th, 2006 1 Comment »
A couple of years ago, my dad gave us some Teaching Company tapes — one set was Rufus Fears Famous Romans which Kevin (my husband) just loved. He is on his third listen-through of it, currently. Later on he went on to listen to Garrett Fagan’s History of Ancient Rome — not quite as lively […]
Posted in Milestones, Nature on Jun 17th, 2006 1 Comment »
Liam brought me over to the granite ridge near our house to show me the carpenter ant hive he had discovered last year before he went off to college. We walked along a trail dotted with wildflowers, jumped over a small creek and were at last near a fallen, decaying, massive trunk […]
Posted in Nature on Jun 16th, 2006 No Comments »
Today’s the day that the baby steller jays left the nest! We’ll try to get some pictures later but right now, we’re afraid to step out on the deck and spook them. They are so precarious in their flying ability –right now it’s more like coasting and dive-landing.
Posted in Nature, Living and learning on Jun 16th, 2006 No Comments »
As usual, when I write out my journal, I miss various things that are going on that I am not directly involved in.
For instance, Kieron and Clare have been taking pictures:
Paddy playing with “guys”
Can you see the steller jay on the pine branch there? This is one of the parents of the four baby […]
Posted in Journal on Jun 15th, 2006 1 Comment »
Aidan woke up asking me to make doughnuts. Since it’s cold enough up here so that I’ve actually made a fire in the woodstove for the last couple of days, I guess the timing is right! Dough in the process of rising right now. Thanks Kitchen-Aid!
Aidan, Paddy, Kieron and I are all suffering from colds. […]
Posted in special needs, Journal on Jun 14th, 2006 1 Comment »
Yesterday we had to be out of the house just slightly after 7 am to be in town for Aidan’s surgery consult at 8:30. We managed somehow! It takes some time to dress both the little ones and gather everything we need for a day in town and shopping trip — stroller, […]
Posted in Books on Jun 13th, 2006 1 Comment »
Me: Family Matters: Why Homeschooling Makes Sense
Clare: Fahrenheit 451 — a friend recommended it to her. The Silmarillion as well — she always has a few books going on at the same time.
Brendan: 2006 Football Almanac — which he’s misplaced and is hunting for at present.
Kieron: was reading old comics from […]
Posted in special needs on Jun 10th, 2006 No Comments »
Aidan was pretending to put a bandage on his daddy, Kevin, today. I walked in and heard him talking:
Lie down. OK, you can take the bandage off.
I need to wipe off that bit of nacho.
Now we need to put on your Desitracin and some infection.
It’s OK….. can you hold the bandage on […]
