October 26, 2006
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Happy Birthday to Rachel!
Yes, I’ve not been pregnant for seven years now. It was a good birthday for Rachel–DVDs, erasable markers, dance outfit, Pizza Hut, Trouble game, American Girl dog, and more. Here she is in all her ballet glory. (She doesn’t take lessons; she just likes the clothes!)
I’m working hard on Saxon. I know that after I finish this set, I’ll be done. HOO-RAH!I’m also puzzling through how to make my school day more effective and efficient. It really wastes a great deal of time when I have to nag and nag and nag, “What are you doing now? Stop sitting on your brother’s head. I don’t know where that book is because you had it last. Stop wrestling with your brother. Have you finished that essay?” (Notice the misleading absence of exclamation marks. It makes me look so calm.)
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In our house we would add “Stop playing Steve Irwin with the pets they are beuts, but they do not need to be wrestled to the ground!” and “Who put the clean karate uniforms in the hamper under wet towels!!” or “How is it possible to make the house more messy during cleaning up?!!” Notice the exclamation points. I am not calm!!
And a very happy birthday to the beautiful ballerina princess!
I frequently ponder the same dilemma. I have concluded that human beings are basically inefficient, and the solution is to minimize the amount of interaction required with said primitive carbon-based lifeforms.
lol i laughed when i read your comments about your school day….”stop sitting on your brothers head!…” lol sounds like your house is alot like ours, so ifyou do find any effective tools for eliminating wasted time, i’d loooooove to hear them!
happy birthday to your Rachel!
Happy Birthday, Rachel! When you figure out that magic effiecent formula, PLEASE SHARE!! I could use some ideas!
(I use enough exclamtion points for both of us)
What a cutie! Give her a happy birthday hug a day late for me.
Thank you for your prayers. I’m considering applying ED to a school, and so I’m stressed all over. I could most certainly use your efficiency invention! Thanks for the encouragement, too. The nice thing about Econ is that Dr. R doesn’t really care about how the essay is written or what length it is – as long as it uses “sound economic concepts.” Which, while hard, makes for a much shorter, much rougher (but still an A+ in his book) essay.
–K.
Your school day sounds very much like the norm! Not so much for me now because it is just Amanda in my little school room……….but I remember those days!
Sherry
I second Aaron’s statement.
The first lesson didn’t go too badly. I managed to learn all about the fascinating gauges and buttons on the dashboard. Not to mention starting from a dead stop (so much fun with a stickshift) and braking, turning, turning with a turning signal, switching gears, backing out of a parking spot, adjusting the mirrors… I’m hoping that once I show my prowess at these feats I’ll be able to move onto driving on a road with other cars.
Happy Birthday to Rachel!
(I loved the ballerina outfit, but what I really noticed were all the bookshelves in the picture. Such a homeschooling household
Are you like me? If I go visit someone, the first thing I wonder is “Where are they’re books?”)
Happy Birthday to Rachel! She looks lovely in her ballerina clothes.
Happy Birthday Rachel! I hope my choice of Legolas pants was correct!
HaHaHa! Thanks for making me feel better about my own homeschool experience. Prima and Septus are the kind of kids that would just sit down and DO their work. The rest…I’m a little A.D.D. and they knew how to use it. Happy birthday to Rachel. She looks very cute and dancer-ish. Are you going to get her lessons?
Happy Birthday Rachel! And, it’s not so much that I need ‘adventure’ in my stories as that I need something which seems to me worthy of strong emotion. Possibly I would have been more moved if I had seen the affair at closer hand. As it is, we only see it through Fanny’s eyes, and it doesn’t break until the book is nearly at an end. Fanny’s own emotions are so subdued, as is the author’s expression of them, that I had difficulty getting involved. I haven’t gotten to Northanger Abby yet – I think the Bronte sisters are next on my agenda.
Happy birthday Rachel!!! You are getting so tall! Kayla loves to dress up in ballet clothes too.
Maybe you could stick one kid in each room and set a timer. They can’t leave the room until that lesson is done, or the timer goes off. No talking, no bathroom breaks, NOTHING!
wow, she has those super flexible feet Carrie would die for! Have you considered signing her up for ballet???
Happy Birthday!!
I suspect that you’re right…today will probably not be the last wearing of the tiger costume. As for sleep…what’s that? Oh well.
A bit belated (we were away on a business trip with hubby) Happy Birthday, Rachel!! You look just lovely!!!
Hey!! If you find out how to live without all the nagging and exclamation points, LET ME KNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(ahem.) sorry, just had to let that out. thank you.
I liked In Good Company as well. As for the swearing in The Prestige… there was definitely a word or two, but not excessive and it wasn’t gratuitous. The diction was actually a cut above the typical, Hollywood fare.
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If you find the key to effective and efficient PLEASE tell the world! I struggle with the same “classroom management” issues. Hey, aren’t we supposed to be free from that by homeschooling?
Blessings!~Margie