| January 14 2004 |
| Formally and Finally
There! All moved! Hear ye, Hear ye, I am at http://www.BringsCrickets.com . Posted by Alaska at 7 : 08 am | Leave a note {0} |
| December 23 2003 |
| Grrr
I just blogged a whole blog and lost it. :::stewing::: Okay, I am temporarily here and will be here sometime before the turn of the new year. Come one, come all. Posted by Alaska at 6 : 57 pm | Leave a note {0} |
| December 22 2003 |
| Quick Blog
It was painful not having blogging access for the past few days. So I've made arrangements to move the blog to another server—but I will leave a forwarding address and I don't really expect to have the other address up and running till after Christmas. I can't believe we're three days away from Christmas. All I can think about are the five units of art prints I promised someone in Florida by 8am tomorrow morning. Thankfully, Chris is off this week and next and he has been Daddying up a storm so I can work. Hopefully a longer update tomorrow after work is done :) Posted by Alaska at 4 : 02 pm | Leave a note {0} |
| December 18 2003 |
| Final Thoughts
We ended up doing a family outing tonight. Chris needed a new santa hat for work and I needed books, so we strapped the younguns in to the van and headed over to Corona. While I was checking out books, Chris took the kids on a drive through the neighborhood to look at lights. There were lots of decorated houses to look at so by the time I got back in the car, Ben was pointing at anything lit up and saying, "Ooooooh, twee!" When he got home he stood stubbornly in the middle of the lawn chanting "twee! twee!" and pointing at the light up Christmas tree on our lawn while Chris tried to cajole him inside. Maybe they'll sleep in in the morning. Actually, I guess that would be bad since we have to get out of the house at the insanely early public school time of 8:00am to go see the speech lady about Max's evaluation the other day. After that we're going to help the mom with triplets. As much as a mom with a seven year old and twin two year olds can help anyway. That's it for me. 4am is finally catching up with me and my goal tonight is to read through the guidelines tonight. Then I'm going to sleep. If I can write a page in the morning, yay for me! Otherwise my only hope is a productive afternoon and Friday night. Posted by Alaska at 10 : 16 pm | Leave a note {2} |
| Actually, It's Been A Good Day
I'm just a little sleep deprived since I tickity-tappitied on my keyboard until 12:30 and then got up 4 hours later to do it some more. I finished one project, but that still leaves me a day behind and it was a day I couldn't really afford to lose. So, ::scratching head:: I'm a little worried about what remains and the time in which I have to do it. The good news is that I'm being paid well and the projects are all interesting and I like the people I'm working with and my kids seem happy and there IS a bit of a break right around Christmas. Bad news is my office is such a mess you can hardly move around in it, but whatever. So. Today after I printed off two copies of the manuscript for the evaluators to read, I packed up the kids and went to see Dr. Na'imah Powell. My doctor is a woman probably 5 to 15 years older than I. It's hard to say. She wears long, flowing outfits in african patterns and wears her long hair in teeny tiny braids. Some of the braids are bleached or died gold. Very pretty. She has a little dog who appears to be a cross between a terrier and a chiquaqua. I think, technically, it's a long-haird chiquaqua. He has free reign of the office and if you leave the door ajar, he will follow her in. He is smart. Took one look at my boys and fled. She walked in just as the chaos broke loose among the boys. I counted Max to two, Milo hid behind the examination table and Ben was trying to plug something into a 210 outlet. She burst out laughing and gave me a hug. We chatted about the reason I was there and did some problem solving and she sent me home to come back in 2 months. I've been lucky to have some doctors I really like, but not recently. So I'm glad to have stumbled on her. She listens. From there we did our last and final packaging errand and then went home for lunch and a round of laundry and picking up. I put the boys down for a nap and fell asleep on the floor next to them. Oops. I'm expecting Chris home early for dinner. I think I'll clean the office, clean the downstairs, get an early dinner going, and then see if he's up to holding down the fort so I can run over to the library and get some information for the writing I need to do tonight. I don't really get to go on a cruise, but only 2 more days before I get my hair highlighted and I'm looking forward to that :) Posted by Alaska at 3 : 33 pm | Leave a note {3} |
| Buh Bye
I am ready for my caribbean vacation now. It has been almost a year since my MIL, a life-long smoker, quit smoking. I think I promised her a cruise when she hit six months. So, sweetie, have fun with the kids. Don't forget to feed the dog and the lizard. Your mother and I are headed to Mexico and will be back in ten days. Posted by Alaska at 11 : 44 am | Leave a note {0} |
| December 16 2003 |
| Alaska:Hairdresser
Lately Chris has switched to a hair style that is super short and requires frequent trimming, so he wanted me to cut his hair. Among my other errands yesterday, I stopped by a beauty supply shop and picked up a professional hair trimmer. So last night Chris sat down and I cut his hair. I only know what I know from watching my boys get their cut, so it was neither wonderful nor badly done. He can go to work with that hair cut. The three boys were enchanted though and no sooner did he leave the seat to go shower off the hair, than Max hopped in the chair. So I cut his hair. As soon as HE left, Ben hopped in the chair. I just shaved Ben down all over with a No 1. He's got some cradle cap and this will make it easier for me to scrub at that in the bath this week. After that, a little more timidly, Milo crawled in the chair. Spontaneously, I decided to give him a slightly different cut. He got No 1 on the sides and back and No 2 up top. My identical twins aren't identical now. They don't look hugely different. I think you'll still need to look carefully, but at least there's a clue that others can see in their face. They adore each other, but they really appreciate the few small things they own that are truly theirs alone. They each have their own pair of shoes--Milo's with two black stripes and Ben's with two blue. Ben has a blue church shirt and Milo has a green church shirt. I do adore dressing them alike, but it does mean that I'm the only one who knows who is who without looking at their shoes. So now there will be another clue. They are growing a bit, my twingles. Earlier in the evening Chris asked Ben to give him something and he willingly fetched it. Max turned to me and said, "I think they're getting to be preschoolers, Mom! Not just toddlers anymore!" Bite your tongue, son. The local school district won't give them speech services until they're three. I'm thinking of skipping the professional route with them right now and just working on phonemic awareness stuff with them for five mintues each day. In addition to laying a foundation for reading (nothing complicated, mamas, I'm not doing anything other than showing a picture, saying the word, and breaking it into onset and rime for them. Nothing for them to produce at all.) I'm hoping it might help their articulation over time as they absorb the information about phonemes. Posted by Alaska at 7 : 47 am | Leave a note {5} |
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My 2003 Resolutions 1. Eat right, exercise, get to ~145. 2. Reclaim my eldest son from the World. 3. Submit something for publication that isn't in educational publishing. 4. Get to church. Progress Report
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Bias and Background
I'm a political and social moderate. I've been in every one of the lower 48 and am most comfortable in the Midwest. I was born Methodist, raised a little bit of everything, converted LDS (imperfect at that but working on it), and God seems to think I'm best suited for mothering BOYS. So I do. I was once an elementary teacher. I still cheer for and believe in most teachers. I think home schooling and public schooling can peacefully coexist. I also believe people can and do change. This is a homeschooling blog if you believe that all of life is learning.
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