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Aug. 15th, 2003 08:38 pmthis really strange thing is going on. i'm totally digging this whole summer in south florida thing. it's freaky as hell, this has never happened before. but i'm like going swimming and driving around with the windows down reveling in the palm trees. i'm guzzling lemonade all the time and turning up classic rock and feeling like i'm in paradise.
today i took the kids, just the three of us, and we went and sat down and had lunch in boston market, then went to the fabric store and got some stuff, and then we went to the aviary. they had never been before, and had a good time. i was so intensely proud of them, like we prayed before we ate and they held my hand and each others' eagerly. and everytime i gave one of them anything they said "thank you". they're so damn big now that i can just put them in shoes and let them walk - like across parking lots and through stores and whatever (holding my hand). it was a nice time, though. they're doing all this construction on US1 and they were excited to see diggers and bulldozers and cranes in action. we've been reading this book "what do trucks do?" a lot, and this is like a tie-in to the lesson.
speaking of lessons, grant's dad brought home some thing for government-aided homeschool the other day that sounds sort of interesting to me. at first i was like, screw that, they control the public schools and look at them! but i read some more and it seems ok. you get free taxpayer texts and study aides and even a computer, and you have access to a teacher who has like 20 kids in each "class", and this real certified teacher's job is just to check in on progress periodically, and organize "class" trips to museums, parks and zoo type places, so that the kids can meet other kids on an ongoing basis and the parents can connect. they are also available to you to call with questions or support, since you are not actually a teacher. you get this whole curriculum of core subjects and electives, but can go at your child's pace (they do placement testing prior to setting you up, for grade level). i dunno, i'm thinking about it. there is apparently a website all about it, www.k12.com but i haven't went and checked it out yet. it's supposed to be "virtual public school", and i find it intriguing that the government would be pushing it. and curious.
i have a headache that just won't quit. i love the way my bible explains leviticus. i am absurdly, grotesquely fat, and i have mad skillz with textiles. that's skillZ, now, understand.
other than that...headache. it's supposedly from all the extra blood pounding through my veins, my blood volume is currently in the process of increasing by like 50%. i'm gonna go take a shower.
today i took the kids, just the three of us, and we went and sat down and had lunch in boston market, then went to the fabric store and got some stuff, and then we went to the aviary. they had never been before, and had a good time. i was so intensely proud of them, like we prayed before we ate and they held my hand and each others' eagerly. and everytime i gave one of them anything they said "thank you". they're so damn big now that i can just put them in shoes and let them walk - like across parking lots and through stores and whatever (holding my hand). it was a nice time, though. they're doing all this construction on US1 and they were excited to see diggers and bulldozers and cranes in action. we've been reading this book "what do trucks do?" a lot, and this is like a tie-in to the lesson.
speaking of lessons, grant's dad brought home some thing for government-aided homeschool the other day that sounds sort of interesting to me. at first i was like, screw that, they control the public schools and look at them! but i read some more and it seems ok. you get free taxpayer texts and study aides and even a computer, and you have access to a teacher who has like 20 kids in each "class", and this real certified teacher's job is just to check in on progress periodically, and organize "class" trips to museums, parks and zoo type places, so that the kids can meet other kids on an ongoing basis and the parents can connect. they are also available to you to call with questions or support, since you are not actually a teacher. you get this whole curriculum of core subjects and electives, but can go at your child's pace (they do placement testing prior to setting you up, for grade level). i dunno, i'm thinking about it. there is apparently a website all about it, www.k12.com but i haven't went and checked it out yet. it's supposed to be "virtual public school", and i find it intriguing that the government would be pushing it. and curious.
i have a headache that just won't quit. i love the way my bible explains leviticus. i am absurdly, grotesquely fat, and i have mad skillz with textiles. that's skillZ, now, understand.
other than that...headache. it's supposedly from all the extra blood pounding through my veins, my blood volume is currently in the process of increasing by like 50%. i'm gonna go take a shower.
