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Interests: I love to write, read mysteries, the bible, and those are just my favorite. I crochet blankets for babies and bigger ones for me :) Love spending time with my husband and my children. I blog at thummy.com/leesa and love it!
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2/19/2007
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Well Benjamin found his long lost basketball in the closet and was so excited! I put his little hoop back on the door, and he kept doing slam dunks and thinking he was just awesome! Then he backed up and started trying to make longer shots.. and well, the pictures show what happened. The ball perfectly landed between the doors and I promise you, that was more exciting to him then any of the “real” shots he had made. He made everyone come in and see where it was.. and of course I had to go get the camera and make the memory last forever and big sister did a great job with the hi-5’s. Someday when he becomes a pro basketball player these may be worth a lot of money..
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Today is the first day of our vacation. I shared with you before how we started doing 6 weeks on and 1 week off. Man.. it was perfect timing. Not only with Rudy losing his job and all the stress that goes with that, but school itself. By the time this week comes around.. we are so ready for it! I got up late this morning.. 8:15a.m. and Jade watched a few shows on T.V. (just like a Saturday morning) and then I had coffee.. which I’m still sipping because I didn’t have to down it.. and well… ahhhh! I love it! Her little friend next door, Emily, is in year round school.. so her 3 week vacation started today as well. Jade has been playing with her all morning, and I’m already showered and dressed.. to go nowhere, which is half the fun.. and it’s so nice and relaxing.
I was talking to my friend Katie (another stay-at-home mommy) and telling her all of this stuff, and she laughed and said, “Isn’t that funny that you are calling being a stay-at-home mom a “vacation” when that’s what all of us do every day?” When I hung up with her I kept thinking about it and just became so thankful! Before I started teaching Jade… being a stay-at-home mom was very hard. You go constantly, and you are always a “mom”! Adding school to that was nearly impossible when I started Kindergarten, and 1st grade got a little harder.. and I kept truckin’ and had those days of utter melt downs.. but I knew it was what I wanted to do. This year.. now 2nd grade.. we’re in a flow..and I’m really handling everything much better. Of course I hadn’t realized that until a good friend like Katie makes such a wise observation. Now I by no means meant to say that her life, or any other stay-at-home mom’s life was a vacation.. no way!, but what I did realize was the stamina that God has given me.. the endurance that I’ve been given. I’m very thankful. Now.. school is the hard part.. planning, making sure she understands the way I’m saying it..teaching.. being a teacher and a mom.. but the 24hr “mom” part.. well, that is much more rewarding now. All the seasons of life are such a growing experience. I will never be the perfect mother or the perfect teacher.. but I hope that with great intentions and love and 1 week VACATIONS , I can be what they need me to be..
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| We were eating dinner tonight and Jade said, “I hate Sundays”.. when we asked her why, she said, “because the next day is Monday and it’s back to work”. She doesn’t really hate Sunday, but she knows that the fun is about to end. I feel the same way. Now, if I were sending Jade off to school tomorrow, I think my thoughts on this would be different, but I’m not. She’ll be home tomorrow. Yes, she’ll be in school here, and have a list of things to accomplish, which she usually doesn’t mind too much… but either way, she’ll be home. What can I do to make “home” a more pleasant place during the week? What can I do to make school not seem so dreadful that we don’t look forward to it? I have so many opportunities at home, I love doing all I can do for and with my children. I know that once we get started it’s fine, and we enjoy each other and she does great in her work… but I need to know for certain that there isn’t something I can be doing to help avoid the feeling of “because the next day is Monday” syndrome. I want her to feel peace in our home in all situations. Is this just a “school” normality, or is there more I can do? Any suggestions? | | |
| I’m still brainstorming on how to make Monday’s not so dreadful, but today I was changing Lauren and wiping up spit up off the clothes I had just put on her.. when I looked up and saw Jade. Her math workbook was in her hand.. by the ground, and she was circling the correct answers using her toes! She looked up and said, “mom, my toe made a circle!” I was just about to tell her to stop messin’ around and put her book on the table when I realized that she was putting spunk into her own Monday. So instead, I said, “wow Jade! That’s pretty cool..” Thought I would share the amusing moment from our day. I’m sure there will be plenty more. You see.. I can do all the brainstorming I want, but it’s little things like that, that make home schooling memorable and unique. LOL! | | |
| I don't know how to set up my other site thummy.com/leesa so that people can subscribe. Until then, I've been copying and pasting my posts from there to here. I have many more writings on that blog... but these are my favorites... :) | | |
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