Most, if not all of you have college degress and know what APA is. For me, it is a horrible horrible bane. Neck aching, shoulder torquing, mind numbing pain! I am sitting on the edge of an A in my recent class-have worked my butt off learning downright obscure theories (and writing about them) and all the points I have lost (5 total) have been for APA!!!!! AAAGGGHH!!! So, I am looking at APA software since me in manual mode isn't cutting it. I wonder if they have a conference every year to discuss random changes to cause the most turmoil.
So I am taking suggestions. I am looking at PERRLA right now, but will definitely need to decide by next week. My next course is available for review tomorrow with the first post due Monday. This one is nursing research. Wahoo! The twisted thing is, I kind of liked the theory and will probably like research too. I've often wondered if I hadn't been cornered into nursing if I would have ever graduated...I like school too much (sigh).
Oh, almost forgot...Mr. Pratt will be out tomorrow to install the fictures in the bathroom downstairs. HOORAY!! Now if I can get Greg to finish the baseboards....I imagine he'll finish that project when I finish one of mine:)
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Surfaced
Ah, Sunday. A day off. Greg and the kids kept busy. I literally spent 6 hours holed up in the den writing an 8 page paper on two nursing theorists. But it is done. The APA check took nearly as long as the paper--I do it myself, I still haven't looked into a program for it. The kink in my shoulder is still there. On the plus side, Greg was great about keeping the kids out of my hair. So I surfaced at 3:30 and realized I hadn't been outside. Went out, Ryan requested a leaf pile. It was small, the trees are still holding massive amounts of leaves. We have a million acorns. I mean really, many many many acorns. If they all sprout tress we'll have to move. I don't even know how I will get them allout of the grass. Anyway.
Ryan did his homework tonight. The desk we bought him ages ago, the one in my room until this afternoon that I used for my makeup (it's a kid-sized desk and I used it whenever I put on my make-up--picture that!) is now back in his room per his request, so he can do his "practice homework." I pulled out Everything Your First Grader shoudl know and started thumbing through it. I wanted to find something for him to read to me. We found a section on rhyming. I said a word and he came up with one that rhymed..he asked to do it again and again so he could come up with different words. He read some nursery rhymes and wanted to keep going. I am always tickled when he does that. Charlotte recites the rhymes from memory--I asked Ryan to read Old King Cole and Charlotte spouted it off-word perfect. Had no clue she knew that. Greg wasn't surprised. He said we've been reading them to her for awhile. Where have I been?
Ah! Almost forgot. Greg and the kids surprised me with a birthday cake today. Yes, my bday was 2 weeks ago, but we never got our own cake. Greg and the kids made it while I was contructing sentences containing the words "expanding consciousness, angular view and noetic loci" If you want to know what they mean, come with me to school! It was a delightful surprise.
Soccer season is done. Swim for Ryan starts. Charlotte starts her dance class on the 27th. So we get a little breather.
Ryan did his homework tonight. The desk we bought him ages ago, the one in my room until this afternoon that I used for my makeup (it's a kid-sized desk and I used it whenever I put on my make-up--picture that!) is now back in his room per his request, so he can do his "practice homework." I pulled out Everything Your First Grader shoudl know and started thumbing through it. I wanted to find something for him to read to me. We found a section on rhyming. I said a word and he came up with one that rhymed..he asked to do it again and again so he could come up with different words. He read some nursery rhymes and wanted to keep going. I am always tickled when he does that. Charlotte recites the rhymes from memory--I asked Ryan to read Old King Cole and Charlotte spouted it off-word perfect. Had no clue she knew that. Greg wasn't surprised. He said we've been reading them to her for awhile. Where have I been?
Ah! Almost forgot. Greg and the kids surprised me with a birthday cake today. Yes, my bday was 2 weeks ago, but we never got our own cake. Greg and the kids made it while I was contructing sentences containing the words "expanding consciousness, angular view and noetic loci" If you want to know what they mean, come with me to school! It was a delightful surprise.
Soccer season is done. Swim for Ryan starts. Charlotte starts her dance class on the 27th. So we get a little breather.
Monday, October 13, 2008
Pretty Day/ I am not super mom
Yet another perfect fall day--can it stay like this forever? Got kids to school. Went to grocers--the Kroger in Bcreek has a Starbuck's and I wasn't going to get a coffee, but the salted caramel hot chocolate was worth trying. It is now my new favorite. It may bump the caramel latte from Panera. Debated- homework, clean bathrooms. STOP! It's a gorgeous day. Packed lunch and Charlotte and I had a picnic at school. I spread out the blanket under a tree, the sun was just right. The blanket was a magnet for a couple of kids, Ella came and sat on my lap. After the young ones went in, Charlotte ate and we chatted. I laid on my side and Charlotte crawled over leaned against me like a couch. She was lucky I didn't take a nap, though I nearly suggested we curl up. But, before I could say anything, it was off to the swings. Bathrooms be damned.
We are reading Halloween themed books now. The current favorite being the Bones of Fred McFee--not too scary and it rhymes. I found a copy of the Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Ichabod in this version is a bit smarmy--need to find a different version.
I bought Ryan the first four Magic treehouse books today--he is very excited about chapter books. We are reading the first one together--the fourth one is pirates and that is the one he reads "by himself". I want to read them in order. The first one is about dinosaurs.
Charlotte made the letter A out of her pencils and called me over to look. I pulled out the wooden shapes in the Handwriting Without Tears stuff so she could make others if she wanted. The tempest reared her head a couple of times today. After being admonished about being sassy to Mommy at bedtime, she cried her heart out. I asked why she was sad--I told her I wasn't upset and she understood that. So I asked why she was sad and she howled she missed her friend Kristin in North Carolina. It about broke my heart. What goes on in that brain of hers.? So I'll ask tomorrow if she would like to talk to Kristin and see where it goes.
Ryan is back to drawing big pictures again, I'm so glad. I was worried he would drop that after not being in Brian's class for awhile--but he's back at it. Today it was pirate ships with people with names and a story. I asked if he wanted to draw one for Kaylynn and he lept at it. The one he was drawing was a pirate ship sinking because Kaylynn and Ryan shot it (they were full of bad guys). I asked him to draw something happy and then realized that I was being dumb. I encouraged him to draw whatever he wanted. Hopefully Kaylynn will understand. He did change it though. I am sorry he did, after thinking about it, censoring him was a dumb thing to do. He also wrote Kaylynn a note, remebered his "finger spaces" and stamped the envelope. It goes in the mail tomorrow.
We are reading Halloween themed books now. The current favorite being the Bones of Fred McFee--not too scary and it rhymes. I found a copy of the Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Ichabod in this version is a bit smarmy--need to find a different version.
I bought Ryan the first four Magic treehouse books today--he is very excited about chapter books. We are reading the first one together--the fourth one is pirates and that is the one he reads "by himself". I want to read them in order. The first one is about dinosaurs.
Charlotte made the letter A out of her pencils and called me over to look. I pulled out the wooden shapes in the Handwriting Without Tears stuff so she could make others if she wanted. The tempest reared her head a couple of times today. After being admonished about being sassy to Mommy at bedtime, she cried her heart out. I asked why she was sad--I told her I wasn't upset and she understood that. So I asked why she was sad and she howled she missed her friend Kristin in North Carolina. It about broke my heart. What goes on in that brain of hers.? So I'll ask tomorrow if she would like to talk to Kristin and see where it goes.
Ryan is back to drawing big pictures again, I'm so glad. I was worried he would drop that after not being in Brian's class for awhile--but he's back at it. Today it was pirate ships with people with names and a story. I asked if he wanted to draw one for Kaylynn and he lept at it. The one he was drawing was a pirate ship sinking because Kaylynn and Ryan shot it (they were full of bad guys). I asked him to draw something happy and then realized that I was being dumb. I encouraged him to draw whatever he wanted. Hopefully Kaylynn will understand. He did change it though. I am sorry he did, after thinking about it, censoring him was a dumb thing to do. He also wrote Kaylynn a note, remebered his "finger spaces" and stamped the envelope. It goes in the mail tomorrow.
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Sunday- a day for the drama queen
It's official, at 3 we have to turn her off. I mean, really, she just gets fried. Quiet Sunday today. I went to Williams-sonoma to get my BD gift--thanks AJ, for the gift card!! And when I got home, we loaded the crew and bikes for a ride down at Carillon. Absolutely gorgeous--this is why we live in Ohio day. So when she gets fried, she gets pissy--awful word, but there's no other word for it. There are tears, pouting, boo=boo lip and dark looks under eyebrows. And everything sets her off. Mental note: cannot skip quiet time even if they have played quietly most of the day. Also need to consult child rearing information. I'm sure this is normal, she's probably even normal, but I need sage advice so I can appreciate what she is going through--I am sure the trauma of existing as a four year old is somewhat taxing--I really don't remember. But she is a handful when like this and so far the answer is quiet time in her room.
We get drama ot of Ryan too. We are getting more resistance if our plans don't mesh with his, because, as you know, the world revolves around him....
He read "Are you my mother" out loud in the car and was thrilled, mostly by the number of pages he read. He spelled out the words he didn't know--about a half dozen, but did great! Newest thing learned, "Trick or treat, smell my feet, give me something good to eat, if you don't, I don't care, i'll pull down your underwear." Charming isn't it?
We get drama ot of Ryan too. We are getting more resistance if our plans don't mesh with his, because, as you know, the world revolves around him....
He read "Are you my mother" out loud in the car and was thrilled, mostly by the number of pages he read. He spelled out the words he didn't know--about a half dozen, but did great! Newest thing learned, "Trick or treat, smell my feet, give me something good to eat, if you don't, I don't care, i'll pull down your underwear." Charming isn't it?
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Pop
I miss you.
Today, my birthday, I am missing you keenly.
I didn't think it would be that way.
On my birthday, I was your center.
Now you are gone and I am a satellite around others, a center for no one.
I miss that precious feeling of being the center
I grieve knowing I will never have that feeling again.
I miss being someone's child.
I miss you.
Today, my birthday, I am missing you keenly.
I didn't think it would be that way.
On my birthday, I was your center.
Now you are gone and I am a satellite around others, a center for no one.
I miss that precious feeling of being the center
I grieve knowing I will never have that feeling again.
I miss being someone's child.
I miss you.
Saturday, October 4, 2008
10:30
So, it was 10:30. That's the time I rolled out of bed. I woke up once before, smiled gleefully, rearranged blankets and went back to sleep. Woke up, went to Panera where I got the last egg breakfast sandwich, my caramel latte and read (and finished) a book in 2 hours. Off to Trader Joe's. I actually did touch the to do list. All of the summer clothes are packed away. I have to sort thru the clean stuff and see what else needs to go. I can see my bedroom floor again. I then read (and finished) another book. Greg phoned briefly (battery running low) and said Ryan was having a blast--something about a BB gun and that Charlotte was being a good sport. It's an absolutely beautiful weekend to be camping.
Greg bought a camp stove and we have quickly realized our backpacking equiment is insufficient for family camping. We will be visiting the Campmor site soon. General Surplus going out of business hasn't helped and Dick's is somewhat lacking in the camping dept.
I wouldn't mind seeing Birch especially with it being so nice out, but being home has been beneficial:)
Greg bought a camp stove and we have quickly realized our backpacking equiment is insufficient for family camping. We will be visiting the Campmor site soon. General Surplus going out of business hasn't helped and Dick's is somewhat lacking in the camping dept.
I wouldn't mind seeing Birch especially with it being so nice out, but being home has been beneficial:)
Friday, October 3, 2008
I'm Home Alone?
Yes, indeed. It's dark outside and Greg and the little ones are at Camp Birch for the Weekend Family Fun Campout with scouts. I work Sat and Sun so no go for me. I worked last night and was up for a P/T conference at the Antioch School. Greg was running thru his lists for stuff to pack, but rememebred to ask what I would do with my night home alone. Me? Home alone? I hadn't really considered it. Hmmm. what to do. Thai, Indian? I opted for a steak dinner (Longhorn) and looking for shoes. I really wanted a good steak--Texas Roadhouse opens Oct 13. I could go alone or take a buddy. All my buddies have kids, and plans...Megan, however, was eager for a night out too. So after an excellent and overly filling dinner --no room for fried cheesecake (darn!) we went looking for shoes. No luck for me. Most retailers haven't picked up the whole size 12 issue yet, but it was fun to look.
Ryan was really jazzed about spending all day and 2 nights. I can't wait to hear the stories.
So the to do list has a few things on it. I do have a stack of library books I can read (a smidgen of homework) and Greg rented Ironman. I'll see how I feel in the morning. Will it be a pitter around day or a I will move a small mountian day? Dunno. Greg was happy i would have time to myself, I'm glad he appreciates how I need it and doesn't begrudge me the time. I wonder what time I'll wake up tomorrow? :)
Ryan was really jazzed about spending all day and 2 nights. I can't wait to hear the stories.
So the to do list has a few things on it. I do have a stack of library books I can read (a smidgen of homework) and Greg rented Ironman. I'll see how I feel in the morning. Will it be a pitter around day or a I will move a small mountian day? Dunno. Greg was happy i would have time to myself, I'm glad he appreciates how I need it and doesn't begrudge me the time. I wonder what time I'll wake up tomorrow? :)
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