It is relatively cool in the house right now, which is amazing, considering the fact that our air is out! A family friend from church is coming tomorrow to try and fix it, but for the moment we have windows raised, fans on, and have sent the girls to the much cooler house of Memaw and Papaw. If I closed my eyes it would sound like camping. The crickets actually sound quite melodious tonight. Isn't it odd how one cricket can be annoying, but listening to a cricket chorus at night is quite a lovely thing to hear.
I had big plans for tomorrow so I will have to keep it short here tonight so I may wake up early enough to sort through the mess on my dining room floor and table. I had pulled out everything from my "currently in use" bookshelf in our dining room a.k.a. the school room. Little piles were everywhere...English, art, math, history, art supplies, organizational helps (HA!), things that look neat but I am not sure what to do with or if I will ever use them... All you homeschool moms know what I mean.
Well, even if tomorrow does not go as planned I am off work this week (Praise the Lord!) and can catch up on it eventually. Rather than a rest oriented vacation, this is a sanity vacation. I have to put the house in order and get everything organized for the school year. I should have already done this but I was foolish enough to take two summer courses (What was I thinking??? I do lesson plans in the summer?!) so I am having to do things as I go along. I also hope to do a bit of cleaning, such as cabinet fronts and pulling out the washer, dryer and fridge to clean behind them...coils and all that type of thing.
So far classes are going well for all the Mason family. Coley has started and we are adding things here and there, but we have a good general plan. I was not going to start Grace until this week, but she actually wanted to start sooner, so we started a few subjects with her last week. We will incorporate the others this week. Bitsy has things from last year to finish up until her books get here. There was a mishap in the ordering of her K4 curriculum, so we are making do with leftovers and some little store bought workbooks for PK. I am enjoying my classes so far this semester. US History II and World Lit to sometime in the 1600's (In other words, I am not going to go look for that book.)
Barry has a hard bunch this semester. Arkansas History, Int. Spanish and History of the West. He needs all the prayers he can get. He is a tad nervous. His History of the West professor actually is particular enough to tell them how to staple their paper (at a 45* angle) and he has to write a 10 page research paper in there. I may have to shoot him with a tranquilizer gun if he, he who makes straight A's and goes to work 40 hours a week, and still finds time to play with his kids, and pay attention to his adoring wife, and help around the house, says one more time that he may fail. Yes, it is a run-on sentence, but I do not care. I wonder if they sell tranquilizer guns on e-bay?
How a man with such a loving and supportive family, who did wonderfully in school before and is now on the Dean's list despite all his other responsibilities, who is funny and brilliant, can be so truly negative about himself is beyond me. Do I have to have a license for that type of gun? I have never understood that. I am not saying nice things just because I love him, he is very intelligent and "practically perfect in every way", to the point of actually annoying me at times just because he is so GOOD. I wonder if it will come with darts, or will I need to order them? He thinks I just say all these things because I love him, but they are true. Just ask his mom, we agree completely on this subject. I wonder if that gun will kick much.
Love,
Shawna
1 comment:
Hey! Mrs. Shawna you should write a book and get it published. You are a incredible writer! Your writing style is so fun to read! :o)
~Brandon
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