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Things I’ve Smiled About Today
1. It’s Thursday. Park, peeps and potluck day.
1(a). Homeschooling. Lots of times it’s stressful and worrisome for me, and I don’t like to recommend it to people, but I really, really like it. And it’s not just because I get high on homeschooling when it’s Thursday, either. Even in my darkest times of homeschool doubt, I like it and I know it’s all going to turn out just fine. There, I said it.
2. Seeing Lena and Liberty type with their fingers on the right keys. I don’t know why it tickles me so. Just watching Liberty, I think she can type, like, 50 wpm. Lena ain’t no slouch, but she doesn’t like to have to go back to fix mistakes, so she types extra very carefully. Liberty just types the shit, hits spell-check and deals with it. No surprises there.
3. Our new kitty. She’s sweet and cuddly and she poops in the right spot. And she hardly ever jumps on my head when I’m sleeping. And when she does, it’s very cute because she’s just a sweet little baby kitty. And when she lounges on Maya, it makes my heart bleed with ooey-gooey lovey juice.
4. Bryan’s new-to-us old lady car. I call her Mrs. Merriweather because she’s a Buick and she is silvery blue. We don’t do the new-car thing and we drive our cars until they’re almost dead. In fact, this purchase marks the first time ever we’ve owned a car that was made in the same decade as we were living. It’s a 2000. In the late 90s, our newest cars were 1989 models. We bought our minivan (the only car we have ever financed, which we’ll never do again) in 2003, but it was a 1999 model. The car Bryan just got rid of was a 1991 Bonneville, which was given to us in 2001 by a lady who was either a) my mentor or b) somebody who had an affair with my dad in the 70s and never got over him. It depends on who you ask, but either way, that worked out really well for us.
5. The fact that I still have beer leftover from Kristen’s 4th of July party.
6. The fact that all that beer will be gone tonight. Because it’s Thursday. And we homeschool. And have potlucks. THURSDAY!
I have to be honest and admit that I never had warm and fuzzy feelings about homeschooling until I started reading your blog. I didn’t see it as a negative thing, just something that I didn’t completely “get” and couldn’t see myself undertaking. (And I still know I could never take it on, but that’s a reflection on me and my abilities, not the option itself.)
I think these words – “I like it and I know it’s all going to turn out just fine” – sum up why I am envious of your experiences with homeschooling. I don’t always feel that way about what’s happening with my kids (and moreso, their peers) in the public school system. I feel like there is a whole lotta Child Left Behind going down.
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