Oh dear. Where does the time go? I seem to find less and less time (and energy) to sit down and blog these days. And I don't even have a good excuse anymore.
Unless your count being traumatized by the departure of my oldest child.
Anna's birthday present from Grandma was a plane ticket to visit her in Florida. Anna flew by herself and will be gone a whole week! Thank you, Grandma, for taking good care of her and spoiling her rotten, but I'm ready to have my little girl back. It's just not the same without her.
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Or maybe I was too busy playing dental assistant.
The teeth were wiggly but not ready to come out, that is until Ryne and Grace got in an argument over the laptop. They each started tugging on it (yes, we had a talk about that), then Ryne decided it wasn't worth breaking the laptop to get a turn, so he let go. Bam! One tooth pops out. The other followed a couple of days later. Are your kids that naughty?!
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No, wait! I know why I haven't been blogging. I've been planning for our next homeschool year! I had a used curriculum sale coming up and next month is convention time so I had to figure out what I needed to buy. And here's the really cool part: I emailed a bloggy friend to find out how she liked Exploring Countries and Cultures by My Father's World, and the next thing I knew I found a huge package on my front porch.
I practically squealed with delight! {Okay, I did squeal. I think the neighbors even heard me.}
Dear bloggy-friend (you know who you are),
I cannot thank you enough for loaning me all these fabulous books. You are amazing!!!
Can I just ditch the rest of this school year, and get started on the next? {Kidding, school is actually going pretty well this year.}
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Perhaps (have I ever told you perhaps is Ryne's favorite word?), I was just too busy baking my own bread for the first time ever.
Nevermind that I've been wanting to do this for the last three years, but have been too chicken. I finally made my first loaf of bread and it wasn't half bad. Actually, I did make my own gluten-casein-soy-egg-free bread once upon a time, but the only person who would touch it was Ryne, so that doesn't count. He'd eat cardboard if it was shaped like a piece of bread. And that's what it tasted like. But this bread was not hard to make and tasted pretty good. I still have lots of room for improvement, but it's a start. I used this book, written by a homeschool mom, if you're interested. I've been to one of her classes and her bread tastes wonderful, so I know I'm on the right track -- just need some more practice.
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It hasn't helped that I've been watching waaaaayyyy too much college basketball lately. Ask me to say three intelligent things about basketball and I'd have trouble, but I do know that until this week it had been 60 years since my Baylor Bears have won in the NCAA tournament. But now they are among the sweet sixteen! Sic 'em Bears!!!!
cell phone pic of Ryne at the Big 12 tournament last week
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Okay, the real reason I haven't been blogging is just that I've been in a winter slump. So I figured things should get better today since it's the official first day of spring. It is March 20th, right? I wasn't so sure, because this was on my window this morning.
And this was the scene outside.
We've had about six inches so far, but it seems to be tapering off. Yesterday, we had a high of 62 degrees, and today it's winter again. I love winter, but I think it just makes me sleepy.
So if you don't see me again for a little while, I'm still hibernating.
P.S. For some real spring fun, you might want to visit my post from last year.