But most of the time I don't. What you read is the stream of consciousness thought that my squirrel chasing brain thinks. Once in a while it slows down enough for me to fix typos and spelling errors. But usually it's full of red and green underlines when I'm done.
Anyway.. I didn't really have a certain thought I wanted to share but thought it's been a while and I hadn't written anything lately. It's odd to me when I log into blogger to see that I had page views today. Odder yet to see what page they landed on. And then I look and see what those posts where and realize 'humn.. if those were just meant to vent a thought 3 or 4 years ago and are still here in cyber land maybe I should be intentional about what I am writing here in cyber land?"
On the other hand.... here I am with the what come to mind post that I think is the only type I'm capable of.
So... a brief re-cap of the month - inlaws came and went. It was a nice visit, we didn't do a whole lot, but as they were leaving they said it was better than their visit from 2.5 years ago and they actually enjoyed themselves. Stay tuned, it's entirely possible at their new visit 2.5 years from now they'll only remember terrible things from the last visit.
In preparation for their visit, I did a little shopping and bought a new mattress set. For our bed. yeah. Love that logic, huh? But we needed the guest bed to be off the floor and a second box spring did the job nicely. That and the memory foam topper we have should make my parents stop dropping hints about the mattress. I did all this while Larry was away, so I found the set at 1/2 the price we'd seen before and since he didn't answer either of this 2 phones or pager, I took it as a go-ahead on the purchase. Because he was away and I get a little insomnia with that I also made a 2 sets of curtains on a sleepless night.
He's away now, so here I am. Additionally when he was away we had a little crime spree here in the neighborhood. Started with someone trying to break in to a home in the middle of the day to the front door. This got me a call from one neighbor and knocks on the door of other neighbors telling me I was notorious for not locking our gates and doors and that we better do it. now. go now. while I'm on the phone. And then if that wasn't enough, someone's adult child came home drunk and decided to relax in the hot tub.. of the neighbor's house. So at 3:30 am there was a naked guy in the road confused as to where he was. I don't really call that a crime spree as much as a good reason to lock the doors lest a drunk person think my room was his. I thought such things only happened in movies. Apparently not.
There is a new boy in the neighborhood, in Joey's class. We like him so far. The people across the street have been moving out for 2 months now, but the real movers arrived here yesterday. We've heard the new person is a grandmother. So no kids. bummer. or not. depending on the kids.
We had report cards and it was 3/4ths good. And that 1/4th I have issues with. No, not ADD girl. Boy with the perpetually bad luck in teachers. This year's new teacher seems to have a perpetual case of ADD and Joey doesn't do well with staccato instructions, much less hurried staccato directions. And she blames the kids for not speaking up that they don't understand her/directions/etc when she races through and they don't know that they don't understand. That and the books she's having them read have my 2/3 of the way going to the principle and demanding that he be in a different class. Nothing on the gay agenda, dad and mom. Just way above 4th grade level in reading level and content and too much dark/death/magic and another mom says the book in her group is very based on the occult. There are several reading groups, Joey's in a different one, and for this mom to notice the book is base on the occult, I'm pretty sure it is because she's not one that sees occult in things other than occult. I know there are some that make a lifetime of seeing the devil and occult in everything in a hyper-spiritual way, I can guarantee that isn't the case here. And if we had been assigned that book we'd have been locking horns sooner. As it is, I went to discuss my issues with her on Friday, got some answers -not totally happy but not as mad and get home, talk to Larry later and he brings up a dozen other things that he thinks I didn't address or get adequate resolution to. *sigh* it's going to be a long year at this rate. And I threaten to homeschool regularly. This of course puts a kink in the work schedule.
Work.... sigh..... even Jesus went away from the crowds. There is so many issues. I was in a clinic with a larger percentage of english speakers this month, but with english came a greater percentage of homeless/mental health/substance abuse problems. wow. it just weighs on your soul after a while. Making tiny differences, hopefully, but just not sure how much it really matters in eternity. Of course I'm not totally comfortable doing the 'what matters most is knowing where you go after this life' speech. I'm getting better at it- practice and all. Still waiting to get called into the carpet for that. But the truth is, that it doesn't matter what we do for them medically or socially if we're not helping them spiritually. And on that side part of me really wants to start my own clinic with my own mission statement. I just don't have the resources of either money or time to do it.
In other news Sonia's band class is going about as great as the Music Man's band. I swear he is going with the 'if you think it you can play it' method. Mostly because they have a concert in 2 weeks and Sonia still can't get a note out of the flute. This concert will be one for the record books.
I started a Shutterfly account to add pictures to from now on, as the battle with loosing pictures is an ongoing one here. The hard drive they've been on has crashed repeatedly. Once I have much on there, I'll share them. But the current site is http://cowlesfamilysharing.shutterfly.com/ not sure if I have to make you members to see it. But if I do, email me what address to add to it.
Not that I think of it, I better finish uploading the rest of my pictures... talk to you later
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