An entry in three parts.
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altarflamePart 1, or, I AM SO DAMNED BUSY LATELY:
You may have noticed my near absence online. Well, in the last week, sheesh, I've studied for an algebra test, taken it up in Kendall early Saturday morning, done a bunch of algebra homework. Spent a whole day here with Kristin and her kids - I stayed with all the children while she went to class, then she stayed with them all while I went and got Grant, then Grant stayed with all of them while she came to class with me to see the hilarity and bs that is my Student Life Skills course (mandatory since I got put on academic probation last time I was in school). I spent a whole afternoon with a couple of great homeschooling moms while all my kids but Isaac (who sat by me and whined THE ENTIRE TIME) ran around having fun with their friends, and had a whole lot of AMAZING intense tmi time with my husband...like stuff that leaves me staring and thoughtful and blown away the next day. The seven of us went up to the beach yesterday. Ananda's birthday was Wednesday, I've been plotting and scheming about Aaron's ever since, since his is next. My brother actually made it following COPIOUS lectures, arguments and talking with Laura, Grant and I and is graduating (high school diploma; still needs his A+ certification from their technical school a few months down the line...) as planned this month.
This is a brief summary of what I've done today:
-got up at 7:30 am to take Grant to work, hashing out budget business on the way
-nursed Elise and fell back asleep - had the worst and most disturbing nightmares I've had in a LONG TIME...woke up very relieved
-made all the kids do all their chores
-scoured Craigslist for writing jobs and started conceptualizing my resume (I've done a lot of web writing for Grant, and things for the local paper, and had a press release gig briefly a couple of years ago...)
-took my (virtual course) Social Studies test and contributed to the (mandatory, graded) "discussion" on the messageboards
-helped Isaac and Jake with about 10 pages of phonics apiece (they were on a role), Elise with handwriting, assigned Annie her daily math (she's doing geometry and subtracting decimals now, in Kumon), and gave Aaron his 30 minutes of silent reading (on tide pools, today, he was thrilled, it's downright silly) that he has to write a paragraph about
-several tedious phone calls and emails about various tedium
-picked Grant up at work at 4:25
-made 2 giant pans of tricked out nachos (cans of pinto and black beans, diced tomato, and black olives...I shredded like 3/4 of a pound of cheese)
-drove Ananda to Girl Scouts, after talking to her troop leader on the phone
I'm SUPPOSED to be putting away like 6 loads of laundry and checking her math work right now, while G is outside cutting down hedges and hauling bulk items from the "alley" for a bulk pickup (an old mattress, a big old cat scratching post, etc) with the four younger kids helping him.
PART 2: WRITTEN THE DAY AFTER ANNIE'S BIRTHDAY BUT NEVER POSTED:
You know, it crossed my mind as I carried a flaming cake out to the darkened dining room for everyone to sing to Ananda yesterday that I've done that an awful lot. So I added it up just now, and sure enough I've celebrated one of my children's birthdays 36 times. This seems really wild to me!
Eleven is so, so awkward. I was looking at my beautiful, brilliant daughter yesterday, watching her, thinking "Yep - that's 11" about so many things.
She stands there, wearing pigtails and having boobs, with her legs newly super hairy but not yet shaved, telling me about the cool fort she just made. I go to see it with her and learn SHE is not gonna use it (of course not!) - she just made it for the little kids. But ISN'T IT AWESOME?
Yeah...that's 11 for you. Kristin told her about a story she think symbolizes her whole year when she was 11 - she said she spotted a cardboard carton from some product her mother had gotten and realized how perfectly shaped and sized it was to make a mailbox for her bedroom, that she could hang by or on the door for people to leave her notes in. And she could have a signal for outgoing mail. And she had everything in mind for how to decorate it and all, and was just SO SAD that she was too old to actually do it because it was a little kid thing to do.
My silly silly daughters.
Four and eleven, wut?
(and behind us, in the yard...)
We weren't able to get a LOTR cake, but we got this thing and she loved it and whatever...I did end up getting her three pairs of shorts, from Target, and a $15 iTunes giftcard to go in a fairy card I'd been saving, and a giant pack of colored pencils since Lee has her using them in art therapy and she really wants some now...
We did end up having Laura (who had brought her a HUGE thing of homemade chocolate mousse, parfait style) and her kids, and Grant Sr (who gave her $50) and Mindy, here for the cake. I think she just loved cooking alongside me most of the day though (veggie lasagna while I did the meat, we cooperated on her chosen lunch of fresh mozarella, sliced tomato and fresh basil on crusty toasted bread, and she spooned all the topping onto the breakfast muffins before they went in the oven). I think helping in the kitchen is still about her favorite thing to be doing, which is funny when I picture her diapered and sitting on the counter butchering mushrooms with a butter knife...
And PART 3: THIS IS WHY FACEBOOK IS SO AWESOME:
http://www.liqwid.org/pictures/ARAkasha.png
I think the next time I write will be about internal thought processes rather than exterior happenings. There are a lot of both!
You may have noticed my near absence online. Well, in the last week, sheesh, I've studied for an algebra test, taken it up in Kendall early Saturday morning, done a bunch of algebra homework. Spent a whole day here with Kristin and her kids - I stayed with all the children while she went to class, then she stayed with them all while I went and got Grant, then Grant stayed with all of them while she came to class with me to see the hilarity and bs that is my Student Life Skills course (mandatory since I got put on academic probation last time I was in school). I spent a whole afternoon with a couple of great homeschooling moms while all my kids but Isaac (who sat by me and whined THE ENTIRE TIME) ran around having fun with their friends, and had a whole lot of AMAZING intense tmi time with my husband...like stuff that leaves me staring and thoughtful and blown away the next day. The seven of us went up to the beach yesterday. Ananda's birthday was Wednesday, I've been plotting and scheming about Aaron's ever since, since his is next. My brother actually made it following COPIOUS lectures, arguments and talking with Laura, Grant and I and is graduating (high school diploma; still needs his A+ certification from their technical school a few months down the line...) as planned this month.
This is a brief summary of what I've done today:
-got up at 7:30 am to take Grant to work, hashing out budget business on the way
-nursed Elise and fell back asleep - had the worst and most disturbing nightmares I've had in a LONG TIME...woke up very relieved
-made all the kids do all their chores
-scoured Craigslist for writing jobs and started conceptualizing my resume (I've done a lot of web writing for Grant, and things for the local paper, and had a press release gig briefly a couple of years ago...)
-took my (virtual course) Social Studies test and contributed to the (mandatory, graded) "discussion" on the messageboards
-helped Isaac and Jake with about 10 pages of phonics apiece (they were on a role), Elise with handwriting, assigned Annie her daily math (she's doing geometry and subtracting decimals now, in Kumon), and gave Aaron his 30 minutes of silent reading (on tide pools, today, he was thrilled, it's downright silly) that he has to write a paragraph about
-several tedious phone calls and emails about various tedium
-picked Grant up at work at 4:25
-made 2 giant pans of tricked out nachos (cans of pinto and black beans, diced tomato, and black olives...I shredded like 3/4 of a pound of cheese)
-drove Ananda to Girl Scouts, after talking to her troop leader on the phone
I'm SUPPOSED to be putting away like 6 loads of laundry and checking her math work right now, while G is outside cutting down hedges and hauling bulk items from the "alley" for a bulk pickup (an old mattress, a big old cat scratching post, etc) with the four younger kids helping him.
PART 2: WRITTEN THE DAY AFTER ANNIE'S BIRTHDAY BUT NEVER POSTED:
You know, it crossed my mind as I carried a flaming cake out to the darkened dining room for everyone to sing to Ananda yesterday that I've done that an awful lot. So I added it up just now, and sure enough I've celebrated one of my children's birthdays 36 times. This seems really wild to me!
Eleven is so, so awkward. I was looking at my beautiful, brilliant daughter yesterday, watching her, thinking "Yep - that's 11" about so many things.
She stands there, wearing pigtails and having boobs, with her legs newly super hairy but not yet shaved, telling me about the cool fort she just made. I go to see it with her and learn SHE is not gonna use it (of course not!) - she just made it for the little kids. But ISN'T IT AWESOME?
Yeah...that's 11 for you. Kristin told her about a story she think symbolizes her whole year when she was 11 - she said she spotted a cardboard carton from some product her mother had gotten and realized how perfectly shaped and sized it was to make a mailbox for her bedroom, that she could hang by or on the door for people to leave her notes in. And she could have a signal for outgoing mail. And she had everything in mind for how to decorate it and all, and was just SO SAD that she was too old to actually do it because it was a little kid thing to do.
My silly silly daughters.
Four and eleven, wut?
(and behind us, in the yard...)
We weren't able to get a LOTR cake, but we got this thing and she loved it and whatever...I did end up getting her three pairs of shorts, from Target, and a $15 iTunes giftcard to go in a fairy card I'd been saving, and a giant pack of colored pencils since Lee has her using them in art therapy and she really wants some now...
We did end up having Laura (who had brought her a HUGE thing of homemade chocolate mousse, parfait style) and her kids, and Grant Sr (who gave her $50) and Mindy, here for the cake. I think she just loved cooking alongside me most of the day though (veggie lasagna while I did the meat, we cooperated on her chosen lunch of fresh mozarella, sliced tomato and fresh basil on crusty toasted bread, and she spooned all the topping onto the breakfast muffins before they went in the oven). I think helping in the kitchen is still about her favorite thing to be doing, which is funny when I picture her diapered and sitting on the counter butchering mushrooms with a butter knife...
And PART 3: THIS IS WHY FACEBOOK IS SO AWESOME:
http://www.liqwid.org/pictures/ARAkasha.png
I think the next time I write will be about internal thought processes rather than exterior happenings. There are a lot of both!
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