Like grains of sand through the hour glass....

Hello Dear Reader!
I hope you had a lovely weekend.
We're in those dog days of summer. I don't know
what the weather is like where you are, but it is
HOT and HUMID
here in Middle Tennessee. And don't underestimate
those capitalized words. Some people can't take
the heat/humidity combo we have here in the South.
It's not for wimps, that's for sure.

Since last chatting with you, I attended the big
curriculum fair that I was so excited about.
My friend Mrs. Marathon and I went together
(it's so nice to do these things with a kindred spirit)
and we had such a good time.
Even with me as navigator, we only made
one wrong turn, but it was easily corrected
---although it does sound bad to say that it caused us
to go into another state.....but we got there
with hardly any time lost at all.
So I am now available to professionally navigate
all your journeys if you'd like to hire my services
....if you don't care about getting somewhere on the first try or making good time or anything trivial like that....

The curriculum fair was great.
This was only my second year to attend, but I just
love going. You get to see things you've looked at on line
and hold it in your hand and make a better assessment of it.
You get to talk to people who actually have answers
for your questions. I just enjoy it very much.
I was only going on Friday this year (it's a two day thing)
so we were there for a very long day.
But it was a fruitful long day,
so it was a good kind of tired.

Drum roll please.
I am happy to announce that
not only have I settled on a math curriculum
but I have purchased it.
I'm just waiting for it to show up on my doorstep now.
I could give you this big explanation of
what all happened to lead up to my decision,
but I won't bore you with that (--I'll bore you with
other things, don't worry. You're not getting away
from this blog without being bored!)
I'll just tell you that Lovely K will be doing
Teaching Textbooks Math this year and Big E will
have another year of AOP's Lifepacs since he
did so well with them last year.
I don't know why that became such a big issue,
the math curriculum decision, but I am so glad to have
that decision made and done with. It was becoming
a millstone around my neck.
I will say this: the lovely little person working
the booth for Teaching Textbooks at the curriculum
fair was just what I needed. She was so knowledgeable
and had years of experience with several children.
She knew where I was coming from and by the time
I was done with her, I just wanted
to give her a hug!

I don't know if you noticed it or not,
but your Ordinary Days have had a little cosmetic update.
I don't know what in the wide wide world of sports happened
to our previous background. I don't know when it went away
because I haven't been on here for a couple of days.
When I logged on this morning,
there was just this wonky message
and NO background.
It was gone.
Discontinued or something.
So here we are.
I hope you are loving this new look
because that's what it's going to be for now.

I don't know if you noticed this or not either
but it's the last week of July!
We are supposed to start school next week.
We are fixing to start the eighth month of 2010!
Am I going to have to put on that
"time keeps on slippin-slippin-slippin' into the future"
song again? Because time is indeed slippin' into
the future as fast as it possibly can.
My little Sweet T is starting Kindergarten!
My tiny little newborn Baby J is getting to be
a big fat baby (he is soooooo cute!)
who is trying to travel around and grow like a weed.
And let's not even discuss how Lovely K and Big E
are changing and growing.
It kind of makes me sad
and at the same time I am excited
about all the new stages and
new things we are facing.
But the end of this free-wheeling summer?
Resuming school work?
Back to the home school co-op each week?

I don't know if I'm ready for all of this.

Can we file for an extension of July somewhere?