Archive for August, 2006

Why?

Thursday, August 31st, 2006

Why does my daughter love to do school-type stuff at night after she’s supposed to be sleeping?
Why does my older son prefer to sleep on the floor instead of a bed?

Thursday, August 31, 2006 - Late Start, Late Finish

Thursday, August 31st, 2006

Thursdays have always been my favorite day of the week. The weekend is coming but still far enough away that I can look forward to it. On the flipside my least favorite day of the week is Sunday, particularly the afternoon part of Sunday. This Sunday won’t be bad, though, since Monday […]

Wednesday, August 30, 2006 - Another Long Day

Wednesday, August 30th, 2006

Once again Ani didn’t finish school until Jamie got home. Most of the day was spent not doing school and begging me to go next door to play. Problem is the 5 year old next door is not a healthy playmate. She will not accept when my kids are told they cannot […]

That was random

Tuesday, August 29th, 2006

Cameron walked over to me a bit ago holding up all 5 fingers on one hand and one finger on the other and told me that was 6. I told him it sure is. Then he said that 6 is two threes. I again told him that is correct. Then he […]

SOLs

Tuesday, August 29th, 2006

I find it really funny that Virginia chose the term Standards of Learning with the acronym SOLs for the things the kids need to be taught in public school. The first time I mentioned them to my uncle, referring to them as SOLs, he stated the obvious by saying right out what someone saying […]

Tuesday, August 29, 2006 - A long school day and I don’t care

Tuesday, August 29th, 2006

Ani took a very long time to finish her schoolwork today and for once I don’t care. I don’t care because I was not sitting next to her trying to keep her on task. I did remind her a few times that she needed to finish her schoolwork and it would be ideal […]

Fritz Peeking

Tuesday, August 29th, 2006

Taken Friday on the way to the conference after a quick stop to nurse.

A little PSA

Monday, August 28th, 2006

Never change the site where you blog. Copying about 150 blog postings is painful. Seriously. My cutting and pasting fingers hurt.
As a side note, until I went through our daily school accomplishments since January I honestly didn’t realize just how fast Ani progresses through levels. Related to that, she did in […]