Monday January 18, 2010
Outside My Window
It looks like pea soup. Iowa has been immersed in fog for the last three days.
While the snow is still piled around we are supposed to get rain this week which most likely will result in ice.
Spring is going to bring flooding.
I am thinking
about an article in the Des Moines Register regarding the state educational system using funds for home school programing. The missing link is of course that as home school parents we pay twice. We pay our taxes the same as everyone else and then we pay to educate our children at home. If a family participates in a home school assistance (which we do not) they are only receiving a minimal amount back. The school makes money on those families. Further more the public school child receives 8 to 10 thousand dollars per child! I can't imagine having that kind of money at my disposal for my child's education!
From the learning room
Back to a full uninterrupted school week. My DMD's art teacher has changed our class time. Wednesday is going to be a real challenge. Art from 10 -12, Tae Kwondo from 1:30 - 2:30, piano at 4:00. In and out of the car with five kids five different times. Makes me tired just thinking about it!
From my kitchen
Friday - kitchen closed
Saturday - home made pizza
Sunday - kitchen closed
Monday - taco casserole / white bean soup
Tuesday - pasta bake
Wednesday - Minestrone / kids left over pasta bake
Thursday - quesidillas
I am wearing
a tan skirt, dark brown sweater with a denim color and cuffs. I love this shirt but have not been able to wear it for a while! Yeh!
I am praying
for Mr.'s arm which he injured this weekend. For a friends husband who is experiencing numbness in his extremities. He is having more tests this week but the fear is ALS or MS.
I am reading
Home by Marilyn Robinson
"The house embodied for him the general blessedness of his life, which was manifest, really indisputable. And which he never failed to acknowledge, especially when it stood over against particular sorrow. Even more frequently after their mother died he spoke of the house as if it were an old wife, beautiful for ever comfort it had offered, every grace, through all the long years."
"And there was the oak tree in front of the house, much older than the neighborhood or the town which made rubble of the pavement at its foot and flung is imponderable branches out over the road and across the yard, branches whose girths were greater than the trunk of any ordinary tree. There was a torison in its body that made it look like a giant dervish to them. Their fathers said if they could see as God can, in geological time, they would see it leap out of the ground and turn in the sun and spread its arms bask in the joys of being an oak tree in Iowa. There had once been four swings suspended from those branches, announcing to the world the fruitfulness of their household."
I am hearing
a local radio program
Around the house
Three weeks ago we began packing up dear oldest daughters room. We will be finishing that this weekend and then will have to start sorting and moving DYS.
A few plans for the rest of the week
All the normal activities with all the normal characters! Winter Jam is a concert with several Christian artists that will be in town Sunday. Both the kids are wanting to go. Both the parents are not!
One of my favorite things
A quiet morning.
