So it’s been almost a month since my last post and I’m not sure why. I had thoughts of blogging about our garden (and posting pictures, of course) but in the end I was too bored – it’s a garden and nothing is really doing much yet (except the bugs are eating all the leaves). June was busy – Spencer has been out of school but the littles were back in. The homeschooling was horrendous (I’m so glad Andrew’s going back to school for 5th grade – his new teacher can deal with all his weird tricks to get out of work). Andrew did a week of baseball camp (but I got no pictures and I’m not going to apologize! I dropped him off and ran each day!!). Haley has started horseback riding lessons (again, no pictures – but I AM going to take some soon. She looks cute in her helmet up...
Memorial day was an exciting one in our family. Spencer went skating with some buddies and had an accident – got himself a nice concussion and a case of short term memory loss. I can joke about it (a little) now, but at the time it was totally freaking me out. He hit his head after falling backwards off his board and falling on the ramp, head first. According to his friends, he didn’t get knocked out – he got up saying his head really hurt. Fortunately one of his friend’s mom was there and she brought him right home. But before they even got him home he had begun asking over and over what had happened. He was pretty upset and kept saying the same things over and over. It was pretty disconcerting. Tom gave him a blessing and then I drove him to Urgent Care who promptly sent him on to the emergency room...
I’ve been reading Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom and I have to ask myself, “What is this on-going illness trying to tell me about my life??” (that’s an inside joke to anyone who has read this massive tome on how our thoughts and feelings come out in the illnesses and symptoms our bodies display). Seriously, though, I’m really tired of being sick – after two plus weeks of coughing, being exhausted, and just generally feeling yucky, I’m really ready to be healthy again. There are things that I so need to do but just don’t have the energy to cope with. I have such admiration for people who deal with chronic illness and pain and still manage to carry on with life. I carry on – but with a large dose of murmuring and complaining!! On another note, my kids (littles) are off-track...
So, I’m officially 24 years old (that’s not a typo, is it??). It’s feeling good to be back in my 20′s. I’d forgotten how carefree and happy I was. Why did I ever leave my 20′s? I had it all figured out back then – I knew how to be the best mom and the best wife and keep my house perfectly and make excellent meals. What have all these intervening years given me?? Seriously, it has been an uneventful day so far – the homeschooling thing has been a major downer today. The novelty must have worn off, because Andrew has fought me tooth and nail today (and we’ve only gotten through math and handwriting). Or maybe he just wants to ruin my “big day” (a little passive aggressive behavior maybe?) Anyhow, I’ve had lots of people wish me well, which is so nice. ...
I just read a comment about this on someone else’s blog and I have to chime in … Latest example of government waste that I (and everyone else) is personal witness to … the census procedure. Notice: the letter announcing the upcoming arrival of the census form, then the postcard, then the form, then the reminder postcard (and for those who were tardy in filling it out and sending it back) the second census form … Seriously?? Why not just send one letter registered – it’d probably be cheaper! Or better yet, how about on line – no paper forms at all!! Think of the trees, the energy savings, the mailing costs saved … but we wouldn’t want our government to actually operate efficiently, or to actually do all those “save the planet – stop global warming” things they...