1) Zipporah climbed all the way up the stairs today.
She might only be crawling and cruising, but today she decided not only to try the stairs, but go from the basement all the way up to the kitchen.
2) I adapted the chains on the rings for Zipporah.
When I first showed her that the rings were now low enough for her to grab, she thought it was the coolest thing EVER - big smiles. Then later I tried to help her get to them again (a bit of a challenge as she is still only cruising, not walking on her own) so I could have one of the kids take a picture, well she was not-quite-as-pleased or cooperative. I will have to try for a better picture next time. In any case, I can hardly wait until she is swinging on them with abandon.
3) My mom took most of my kiddos for an overnight.
I was able to get a lot of tasks completed for our upcoming school year (mostly cleaning/organizing/etc), but it seems like the more I do, the more there is to do!! Oh well, school is starting, ready or not! And a big thanks to my Mom for being so helpful!! I seriously won the mom lottery with her.
4) The official start date for our virtual school is next Wednesday, August 19th.
However, we got our books last week and noticed that our lesson lists (on the website) were active on Monday, so most of the kids did at least a few lessons and have basically "started" school already.
5) Paul is in Kindergarten this year.
Paul is VERY precocious. Honestly he is so smart and articulate and SO READY for school. I figured he is going to be so easy to teach! However, after one day of school with him, I am now harboring a little fear for our school year. ALL DAY LONG he was CONSTANTLY asking me, "Can I do school work now?" And I was CONSTANTLY answering "You ARE doing school work!!" or "You just did three lessons, take a breath!!" If he keeps this up he will be done with Kindergarten by October.
6) I have an excess of school material and it is stressing me out!
This is such a nerdy problem, but here it is. Our online school orders new books for each kid each year and there is no way to just order the consumable parts. So even though Jacob did Kindergarten last year and I have all of his hardback teacher-manuals on my shelf, along with his hardback literature book and all his other soft-cover books (kept in excellent condition), and all of his math manipulatives (of which they send A TON), they sent me all of those things AGAIN - BRAND NEW. The waste just kills me. I am trying to resale some of the manipulatives and some of the regular story books, but the teacher manuals. . . how many trees? I would donate them, but to who? I'm not even sure how much they are worth without the rest of the curriculum, which is online. And the worst part is that this is likely going to happen AGAIN and AGAIN - practically every year as my children follow each other in grades.
7) Gordie fixed my camera, kind-of.
So I bought this camera second-hand on our local swap meet. It was a great deal and it is a nice camera. (And I was even planning to download the manual so I could figure out how to make it do what I want - go me, right?) Anyhow, it worked fine for a while (maybe a month) - I took pictures, I uploaded them on my computer, I charged the battery and took more pictures, etc. and then one day, I charged the battery, put it in, and it would not turn on! I was so distraught and felt terrible for wasting money on something second-hand. I did not even want to ask Gordie to look at it because I was so ashamed for being taken advantage of (as I have often been in the past - there is QUITE the list of stories, let me tell you). Anyhow, I happened to be standing by it while talking to Gordie the other day and I randomly picked it up and there was lull in the conversation, so I sadly told him the story. He looked at it, took the battery out, put it back in, then took it out and put it back in THE OTHER WAY (why would they make it so you could put the battery in either way?!?!) and turned it on. My hero.
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