Wednesday, August 31, 2005
~Here's How I Woke Up...~
Slam! (my bathroom door)
"Mama, I just shut your bathroom door and its locked and no one's in there but the cat" (Kallee)
UGH. See, here's the thing. I am not a morning person to begin with. And my fibromyalgia makes it so hard to get out of bed. I have to turn on the heating pad, warm up my muscles, and *then* get out of bed. And now the 1st thing I have to do is break-in my own bathroom and save the cat. Its not the kind of lock you just poke w/ the end of a wire hanger. You have to get the phillips head screw driver, take apart the door knob and then open the door. And there's Simba the cat sitting there looking at me like "took you long enough,"
And that was the beginning of my day. As I type this tho, I am so aware of the fact that I have a home, a bed, elec to heat my pad and cool my home. Unlike so many up in LA, MS and AL etc. I still haven't heard from my friend C. She lives in Laurel MS. I'm sure they don't have elec, I'm just hoping they are safe. I've been searching the net for info on this town in Jones County but all I can find is Hattiesburg which is 30 mi south of her. I haven't heard from another friend T in Flomaton AL either. I'm thinking things are prob better for her. I'm praying for them both as well as all in that awful area right now.
I've been thinking about Natalee H and her family alot too. I think today the judge begins to decide whether Jvds stays another 30 days. Britt and I talk about this every day. The whole innocent til proven guilty BUT I truly believe too that those boys and more know exactly what happened. We still cannot believe how that one boy could hold an entire country and its people as well as the H-T families hostage and not just tell the truth. Just leads me to believe that the real truth is not as simple as what "we" all assume it is. $$ and connections are powerful tools aren't they? It looks like there may be *alot* under the surface of this nightmare. All I can say is they(whoever they all is) did not begin to think that Natalee's loved ones would actually dig in and stand strong and FIGHT. They just didn't realize the power of a parent, mother...especially a Southern one!
OUR DAY:
After the doorknob incident, we ate breakfast and the kids made a tent in "the pit". The pit is part of our livingroom that is sunken 3 steps down and has a wide carpeted bench on 3 sides and a floor to 3/4 ceiling assorted shelves and cubby-kinda-things that we have picture frames, a kids computer and tv, assorted GI Joes, Barbies, trucks, legos, books etc. Any way, the bottom is about 5'x5' and they made a tent. They brought all their fav stuffed animals and books and played in there for a good 2 hrs! After that they wanted to "do some school" so I got out their workbooks. Here's what who did LOL!
Kallee: First Grade Combined Subject Workbook:
Learned to fill in the blanks for counting in tens. Ie: 10 _ _ 40_ 60_ _ _100. It took her a little bit to get it. She was trying to make it harder than it was. Once she figured it out, she flew thru it.
Worked on beginning letters for words and their sounds. Ie: Picture of a cat and under it is _at.
She did 12 of them and then the next page was the opposite(how a word ends and its sound)
The 3rd page was a picture and under it was the middle letter and she figured out the 1st and last letter. She did great!
Dallas: Pre-K Combined Subject Workbook:
Find all the squares on the page and color them. Then rectangles. He stayed in the lines relately well.
Next was trace the dotted lines. It was like a succession of U shapes and then V shapes. He said he couldn't do it, that it was too hard. :( He was about in tears. He wasn't pressing hard enought to see the colored pencil omn the paper. I tried to show him how to hold it and press, but he couldn't hold it like a pencil and got frustrated.
We decided to go a different direction and got out the Mama/babies puzzles. Each animal family has 3 puzzle pieces. So you find the 3 pieces to bring the Mamas to their babies. He did great at that and he didn't want them spread out but Put each new one on top of the last set as if making 1 pile/row. He did the whole set 2 times.
Played on his Leapster with the Kindergarten program. Finding letters and spelling 3 letter words. Also eye to hand coordination (moving the person along a tight rope to jump in the correct barrel to "win" the right letter). He does that sort of exercize well.
Britt:
worked on some make up techniques, set up her homeschool journal which I have been asking her to do for months. She has been on her laptop and was playing w/Harley(her Yorkie)
She is frustrated and wants to get a job but since Dad and I are sharing 1 vehicle til his gets fixed, she'd have no ride. Hopefully she'll be able to do that soon.
Oh and the question of the day from KalleeFaith while they were eating chicken and FFs tonite....
"Is this chicken we're eating a real chicken chicken?" Oh, Lord. So I said "Remind me to answer that tomorrow" . Is it bad to hope she'll forget that one for a while? I mean Britt and I don't eat red meat any more but I know how these conversations go when kids start to realize what they're eating and what it used to look like. And Kallee will take the answers harder than most I think. She'll become obsessed with the whole thing...
Mama loves u... 8:01 PM
