If I Ever Get a Spare Minute

Wow. I am really busy.

Not "man I have a lot of things going on and I obviously have over-committed myself" busy.

Nope. I'm just plain ol' "just trying to get the basics done" busy!

Bee has complicated things, is what I'm saying.

(What a wonderful complication!!!)

Little Bit LOVES being a big sister!

I must admit, I had a little bit of sorrow over my inability to really do school well. After a less than stellar year last year due to pregnancy and exhaustion, I was really looking forward to digging back into things this year. Getting back to my old self. I really do love teaching.

But I realized over the first week of school that I just wasn't going to be able to do things the way I used to. And I was a little sad for a while.

Now I have moved past that. I am determined to give my older 2 daughters the best learnin' I can give them, while taking the best care of Baby Bee that I possibly can.

My plan? PRAYER!

By the way, Bee did (accidentally) roll over today AND learn to suck on her toes. So, there's always that.

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Seventh grade is really something. The demands are much greater in Core F than they were in Core D+E last year. We are really feeling the change. I love it--Sweetheart is learning to research and write--such good stuff! But wow.

And with all the nagging I have to do at that girl to keep her room clean and pick up after herself and sometimes I feel like I'm the NEGATIVITY CHANNEL--All Nagging, All the Time! With all that, do you know what she is worried about?

Everyone has better handwriting than her!

Sweetheart: Here, Mom, I'm done. It looks awful and I really tried.
Me: What do you mean? It looks great!
Sweetheart: My cursive is not good. Every 13 year old has better handwriting than me!
Me: (wide eyed) Wow--you've seen EVERY 13 year old's handwriting??
Sweetheart: Moooom!
Me: OK--whose handwriting is better that you've seen?
Sweetheart: (lists 3 friends)
Me: Hmm.

Baby Sweetheart--before she had so many concerns. in life. 

So I go digging up my 6th or 7th grade folder. Yes, my mother still had it. My handwriting was pretty bad. Sweetheart said it was beautiful. I told her it wasn't awful, but it sure got better as I got older. Hers will too. I had to write in cursive from 4th grade on, and she's just now being made to write in cursive this year.

Then she asked if she could spend some of her birthday money on a handwriting book so she could practice. Why does that break my heart? I don't want her to feel badly and concern herself over something like that.

Furthermore, why can't she be concerned about her room instead????

Ug. You could not pay me to be 13 again.

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Today I:

*taught school
*cooked 3 meals
*took 2 kids to piano practice
*went to the chiropractor (He said my neck was "pretty jacked up." That cracked me up!)
*wiped the table
*washed the dishes once
*went swimming with the big girls for a few minutes (thanks Sweetie for taking Bee from me!)
*helped Little Bit write a letter

It's after 10pm and I still need to:

*pay some bills
*eat a snack
*go to bed

Accomplishing something every day,

Your busy friend Brenda