Just checking in

 Not too terribly much to report. Germs continue to make their rounds, so last week I spent two days in preschool, one in fifth grade, and tomorrow will be in kindergarten. The weather is off its meds again as well, up to 62 today and the dogs are out in the sunshine. We are indeed still in February in Ohio. I hear Dallas will hit the 90s today. Crazy.

Today I spent most of my time moving books from overloaded bookshelves to our new-to-us ones who've been standing naked for months. I have them 60% filled already and man, I need to dust. Where is Delores when you need her? 

Tomorrow Thing Two takes the ACT so send him some prayers and good vibes and your sympathies, heh. The science fair looms Thursday, so the general grumbling you hear isn't thunder, merely the mutterings of parents and children. Also tomorrow, Thing Three gets to tour the local vocational school, though why they do it now when they already turned in their schedule requests for the 2024-25 school year mystifies me. Much of life is confusing to me!

Make the most of the sunshine and fresh air, people. Have a great week! Wash your hands!

Mucho dinero

 I keep hearing about inflation and rising prices. I guess it's a thing. This is what one of the madly cackling preschoolers tried to charge me for a single brown crayon. Sheesh! Above my pay grade, buddy.

Last one, best one

Groundhog’s Day was my last day of Tamoxifen- five years of meds supposed to reduce the risk of cancer recurrence. When I looked at the last one I thought, “so, it is down to you and it is down to me.” If that sounds familiar it’s because it’s from “the Princess Bride” when the Man in Black faces down Vezzini.

Then I discovered I was trading one medicine for another as this winter has turned my sinuses into garbage, haha. I’m better now, but there are a lot of germs circulating and I’ve spent quite a bit of time in preschool lately, handing small people tissues as I sigh in dismay when they wipe their noses with their hands. 

Or sleeves. 

Or lick it.

So cheers to five years!

 

Homecoming

Thing Two had spirit week culminating in Homecoming earlier this month. The boys’ basketball team won their game but the girls lost theirs. Interestingly, one of the opposition’s players had been in his homeschooling co-op the last two years so they were delighted to see each other. The next evening he actually got gussied up and went to the dance with his friends! We think he looked pretty snazzy, and he had a pretty good time!

 

January felt like

 

High hopes

 I had high hopes for an old, disposable camera yielding great photos from a trip to an indoor water park either 7 or 8 years ago. More fool me, I guess. The camera had gone into hiding and resurfaced many times over the years. I finally dropped it off at Walmart around Christmas and remembered to pick them up today. The best one of the bunch? Thing 3: