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GoodBye!
Well. I'm setting off tonight on yet another vacation. Except this time its with grandparents and all. Well. I will write in Early October.Poor daddy.
My dad has something very wrong with his teeth. My mom, siblings and I are saposed to go camping. My mom is very worried and we might not go.I am scared.
Yippeee!!!!!
Yippeee! One of our hens hatched a little red chickey bird!!! We had to take her to our neighbors. Her mom wasn't very jazzed about it. But our neighbors have other chicks. They hatched their chicks to. I hope she is alright. But we only took her over today. She was hatched the day before yesterday but she was still really little. She is so cute!Good!
Yesterday they mailed the rest of my school books. My mom says that they will get here about tuesday. I am exited to get to do art because when I grow up I want to be an artist. I also like music.Yay!!
I got my school books Yesterday! Monday will be the first time I get to use them! I'm really exited! Mom says I will whip through the first part of my math book. I also get to do art, science and music. I am really looking forward to doing science. This will be the first time I have to use safety goggles for school!I'm Drowning in Books!
Well school is back and I already feel in over my head. This is my third day and I have a paper to write, a language to learn, a book to review, and math, which by itself can make my brain hurt=] But the truth is, is that I love learning. I have tons of useless fact jut waiting for there time to shine=]I made a goal this summer to read at least 100 books. Last summer I read 50, no problem. But I guess doubling it was not good because I only read 87=[ Oh well, I know know at least 87 things I didn't before=] I just finished "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley, if you want to read a creepy book thats one of the creepiest. It's the authors vision of the future, which includes cloning, drugs, and the banning of marriage. Nightmare city=]
Well since I have all these useless facts I will start sharing one at the end of each post, if I remember that is=]
"There are 330,000 species of beetles alone, the largest is named the Goliath Beetle"
Madge@Home
Tomorrow Is going to be awsome!
Tomorrow is the first day of school! I'm so exited! I'm going to have lots of fun I can just feel it. Schools going to be really new. (Since were doing a charter school.) But I know I will have just as much fun as last year.A New Beginning
I am so dense. And proud. And selfish. I don't think those are the words that people who know me would usually use to describe me (I guess I'm also sneaky) but it's so true!I have homeschooled my children all of their lives. They have only been inside a classroom when doing extra things with their dad. And I am proud of that....partly in the good way (thank you God for allowing it and giving me kids that are easy to teach) and partly in a very bad way ("Isn't it nifty of me to sacrifice my own desires to stay home?") The last two school years I have felt enormous pressure (self induced, I am now finding...thus the dense) to make sure I find and co-ordinate all of my children's school and that it isn't like anyone else's. I wanted to be seen as super mom that did all the right things while being COMPLETELY different from "the world." It was in large part about how I would appear to others! Not entirely, because I am a firm believer in schooling at home, but selfishly, I was pretty impressed with me. I like it when my friends think I'm great. How ridiculous! We have been so blessed with each other (husband and I have been together since I was in high school...another source of that good/bad pride thing) and with wonderfully healthy, smart children. We had so little to do with what God has poured on us! Yes, we made some right decisions, but we also made some very poor ones that the Lord STILL used to bless us. How can we take credit for any of that? Even looking at it all written out, and seeing the ugliness of ME, I still have to fight down the hideous pride-self monster.
The last four years have been the strangest of our lives. We have moved six times and lost our closest family friend to a hidden drug addiction. My husband, the stereotypical engineer, decided to change careers and become a middle school math teacher, necessitating three years of full time teaching while at the same time full time grad school. It cut our family income in almost half. And put us nearly $40,000 in debt. And gave me a husband who gets up and goes to his job gladly. And gives us nearly three months of true family time spaced out over the year. And brought us even closer to our children. God brought us through the yuck, to this place of refuge...for how ever long it lasts. As He always has!
All that long winded confession to say, I have changed our style of schooling completely and I feel FREEDOM from so much of that pressure I had placed on myself. I have released control of the planning of the children's school and it is a relief! Now I can help them with their studies and enjoy the time with them, and not be the one that has ultimate power. Ultimate power is a heady thing for a fallen Mom! It will be a change. It is public school curriculum, and I have always used Christian based. It will mean discussions of truth and righteousness and the way other people view the world. I has the potential to be iron sharpening iron. IF I can remember humility, unselfishness and thoughtful thankfulness.
The Summer Adventures of Madge, Chapter Five, The Lava Beds
Okay its not tomorrow=]After we went to Virginia City we stayed two more days at my grandma's before heading home.
On the way back we decided to camp at the Lava Beds National Park and Monument. The campground was nice and it wasn't long before we had dinner going and the tent up (Dad didn't ask me to help this time) =]
That night we all slept great and were all ready to go in the morning.
The main reason we went to this campground was to go spelunking, if your like me you'll be thinking, does this person go around randomly making up words? The answer is yes, but not in this case. Spelunking is just the scientific word for the exploration of caves.
So the next morning we set off to go explore some caves. The first cave we went in you have to go down a long flight of stairs, more like a ladder, in to the darkness. My mom and brother don't like dark tight places and it wasn't long before the decided to let us go on with out them.The second one they got a little farther but still stopped about a third of the way through.
It was so fun, I loved getting down on my hands and knees to crawl down into the darkness. I also liked the cool earthy smell that was down in the caves. They were really amazing and in my opinion one of Gods coolest works of art. I have a few pictures so here they are.
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..........................................................................................................................................Here ends my summer adventures, I hope you liked reading about the fun I had this summer and I hope you keep reading about my life when I remember to post it=]
<~}Madge{~>
Happy New Month!!!
Well Its a new month. I wonder if its the end of the sunny days. My mom thinks it is. I wonder why they called this year global warming.I mean It snowed in April! But I'll make as much fun as I can out of it.{ Last Page } { Page 1 of 5 } { Next Page }
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