Winter Lilies

I am glad to see the work picking up for me. Right now it’s pretty important that I get all the work possible!!

As you read in the previous entry we are going to be trying a new therapy with Dad in hopes of avoiding back surgery. He’s already had surgery once and we aren’t looking forward to it again, for many reasons. We have an appointment set up for him to see a surgeon, but in the meantime we are going to try acouple of different things, in hopes that we can cancel the appointment with the surgeon.

Does anyone have any experience with Inversion Therapy using an inversion table?? We are also looking into that with hopes that it will work to help Dad.

Anyway, I know that it’s not much of an update about life, but perhaps another time I can sit and write a better update. Right now I’m off to another blog to do some more work.

School is beyond awesome here. I can’t believe the progress we’ve made this year!!!! I am soooooooooooo proud of my girls!!!!

We aren’t done yet, we have about another 10 weeks until the end, but I did all the figures tonight, and if we stay on schedule, we will complete TWO years of curriculum in everything except Language!!!!! Can you believe it???

What’s even more awesome is to see how much they have both learned and improved on!!!! Both of them have improved on their reading so much it’s unbelievable!!! Both have improved in their handwriting, but Megan’s improvement is so much so that you would think someone else did the writing!!! They both have had so much fun learning so much about history and science, which is something that is not taught much around here.

Spelling used to bug me sooooo much when we started out, because I would have to spell almost EVERY word they needed for a sentence, now they are able to spell so many of the words.

They are not at all behind in Language either, even though we will only be completing one year of language curriculum…..The language books are big books, filled to the brim with lots of new information. The parts of a letter, how to write a friendly letter, antonyms, synonyms, homonyms, subjects, predicates, nouns, pronouns, verbs, and the list goes on and on.

It’s just amazing to me the progress my girls have made, and I am so happy and proud!!! Another 10 weeks, and then a well deserved break!!!

I have already started planning for next year, and have already ordered a little of the curriculum. We will be throwing in some computer and typing classes, and a new health curriculum, but the core subjects will be from the same company for sure!!!

I’m anxiously awaiting a letter. Around Thanksgiving I received a letter from a long lost cousin of mine. He was one of the first that I met when I came to Kansas so long ago. He’s only a year younger, so we hung out a lot. Looking back I wonder why we ever lost touch with each other….

I really miss him. He was fun, and never minded hanging out with his girl cousin. *LOL* We’d play basketball, and walk around town together. We’d play his game system, and just hang out. We were friends. And then life changed. I went my way, and he went his, and we never talked anymore.

Well he got in touch with me again. The first time in over 12 years. It’s really sad to think of all that lost time. When I received his first letter I was shocked, when I received the second, I was pleased. Now I’m looking for the third. We’ve both made a lot of mistakes in life, and I think that is what will bring us closer together again. Waiting for the letter is a killer though. I look for it every day, hoping and praying it will be there.

Miss you cousin dear.

So I had great plans for getting tons and tons of stuff done today, and I don’t think I even got half of it done. The morning started out fine with Meg doing school, and I did a bit of work until she needed my help. When she finished we went into town to take care of a few things. We found out that we would need to be back in town at 3:30 to take care of some other business….So started the downslide of my day.

We get home and I find that my dinner plans aren’t going to work, because the meat didn’t thaw, so I’m trying to come up with a plan when Dad calls and says I need to pick him up at 3:30….well of course that didn’t work, so we made alternate plans….the girls and I take care of our business in town, go to pick up Dad and then go back to town to eat dinner. When we get home I did manage to get most of the laundry caught up.

2 more work entries that I need to take care of, and I’m just dreading it today. I want to go read, or take a nap, or work on craft projects. *LOL*

Things have been and will be so busy for awhile yet, that I need to get this work done while I have the chance, and yet I also just want some time at home to relax.

Major housecleaning is in order too, since we’ll have visitors next weekend. I hate when they come into a messy house, so there’s several things I want to get done to help get it straightened up a little. Perhaps it’s vain of me, but it’s how I am.

I do think I’m going to skip out on the rest of my work for now, and just relax a little. Then perhaps I will feel more inclined to do something needed.

So, there’s this guy at a nearby gas station. I go in there quite a bit, and he’s always nice, and friendly. One time he commented that he liked the shirt I was wearing. He’s as my name….We joke around when we haven’t seen each other for awhile….It just makes me wonder if he’s like interested in me, or if he’s that way to everyone.

I’ve tried observing how he is with other customers, and I’ve never heard him use or ask their names, but of course he is still polite to them.

I’m not sure I’m really interested in him, as I’ve told myself I’m done with relationships, and am content to be single. However, he does seem sweet and kind…The girls even like him (at least what they know of him), and they haven’t like a single guy that I’ve been interested in yet, so it makes me wonder…..

Okay, so I found this car posted on a classifieds site, it is a few years newer than mine, all the doors work, as well as everything else from what I’ve been told. I really like the looks of the car, and it is priced very reasonably….but there’s acouple of things that make me wonder if I should pursue buying it….One would be the fact that we don’t have the money budgeted, so buying it could put a strain on us. Another thing would be that we weren’t looking for another car, but an suv, and not until after the first of the year.

However I would like to have a car that I can count on, instead of always having something wrong with it. I would like a car that all 4 doors open on it, and a car that the a/c doesn’t make the car overheat….*sigh* I just don’t know what to do!!!!!

It was hot and humid last night, but this morning it is cool and rainy. I love it!!!! It makes for a lovely change compared to the 100+ degree temps we’ve had lately.

Today I don’t really have much planned, although I do need to take my car in and see if they can find out why it keeps heating up without cooling off like it’s supposed to. I plan to do that pretty soon, if the girls wake up. *LOL*

I don’t mind them sleeping in now and then. Yesturday Meg was up at 6am, for some unknown reason, so school went by quickly.

Well, I suppose now that I’ve done a quick update I need to be moving on.

2 down and 2 to go. I don’t want to do them right now, but I know if I don’t it will be much harder to come back and do them later. I want a nap, which is silly, because I took a nap earlier. I need to get grades put in the computer, but it’s not going to happen today…..There is always housecleaning that could be done, but again that won’t happen either. *sigh* Just not feeling good.

Well I can’t say that we’ve been having a very good season. We’ve lost all 4 of the games we’ve played. 6-4, 8-7, 7-6 ( I think), and the worse yet 7-2. We’ve made some mistakes, made some good plays, and have been improving, or at least some have. Our outfielders need some work on when they should move, how they should move, and how to back each other up, so there would be less chance of the ball getting by them. I really wish that the whole team, or at least most of it could meet up and do some practicing. Unfortunetly I don’t have any of the parents phone numbers or anything. It’s really not my place to suggest extra practice anyway, but it would be nice. I practiced with Meg last night, on her outfield duties. Des has been practicing her pitching as well, and both the girls have been practicing their catching.