July 25, 2007

• Still Hanging In There

  My cold/whatever is still hanging onto me, but I continue to persevere and hang in there each day.  I feel pretty tired by late afternoons, so dinners have been (and will be) simply, simple this week.

  There will be NO dinners if I don't get to the grocery store today.  I think I have 4 eggs and 3 inches of milk left in the jug.  I don't know how else to describe remaining milk, except to use inches!  Measuring by inches isn't something I was taught in math class, it's something I devised all by myself!!! !  How do I know how many cups I have unless I pour it into a measuring cup?  I'm not good at estimating measurements of any kind.

  Speaking of classes, I am getting excited about ordering new books for Rissy.  She kind of jumped through the Kindergarten stuff last year and started teaching herself 1st grade subject matter.  I guess that's the beauty of homeschooling - you can be in "Grade 1 1/2" if that's where you test!  In a public school, she would be starting 1st Grade this fall.  But, she's halfway through that curriculum - by her own doing.  I will use the rest of Rissy's Kindergarten books for Annamarie who struggles so and needs the extra practice.  She's still having a hard time in some of the Pre-K books. My friend, Tangi, also suggested I separate the girls this year - two tables, the kitchen and formal dining room.  They can learn some things together like science, Bible, and social studies; but, I'm going to teach them individually math, English, penmanship, and reading.

  Tomorrow is JanaLyn's 4th birthday.  Can't believe our oldest granddaughter is FOUR!  She wants a pinata in our garage.  The garage is still holding all of the stuff in the center from the termite guy's visit last Tuesday.  I started feeling bad on Wednesday and here I am, "still hanging in there."  Jesse moved shelving back against the walls last night, so hopefully I can scoot stuff up against the shelves and put things in their proper place when I feel better.

  My goal today is to make room in the garage and go to the grocery store.  That sounds like more than enough to tax my energy level.  I'm really pushing myself each day, but yesterday I had a set back with lots of nose blowing and loose coughing.

  I found out some sad news last night.  Luci's teacher at daycare (who's been gone a lot in the past few months, sick with a kidney problem) is seriously ill.  Apparently, she had a kidney transplant 14 yeas ago and that kidney is shutting down.  She needs another transplant and has no insurance.  The daycare is raising money to help her financially, and one fund raiser is a yard sale.  So, as I clean through garage stuff today, I will pull things to donate. Jesse has been wonderful, he made calls last night to his friends in the pawn shop business to see if they'd like to donate things they can write off (like TVs, tools, VCR or DVD movies, etc.).  The teacher is young (in my book, anyway) with a darling 3yo daughter.

  I suppose if I don't shower and get dressed, I'll do nothing today . . . and "nothing" isn't on my list of things to do!
   

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