One: Our run of warm, dry winter days has ended. Last Sunday, I saw these flowers coming up. Today, our emerging tulips are frozen and buried.
Two: It’s February, which means everything feels like a slog. Why is that?
Three: We’ve been shaking up our school subjects in little ways, like multiplying with sugar cubes and writing poetry with magnets, but there’s only so much I can do to lighten the load for my high schooler.
Four: last week I registered him for the ACT, the SAT subject test and 2 AP exams. (Between his exams and my Boards, this spring is going to be full of bubbles.) It took me three hours just to register him, and I speak the language. I can’t imagine trying to negotiate this in a second language, or without experience.
Five: Meanwhile, we’re still plodding away on all our reading. We listened to The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread (Kate DiCamillo) on the way to ski last week. It falls in the category of Good Books that Are Saving My Life Right Now. Neither of the girls remembered it from the last time we read it. The audiobook is fantastic; the story (and storytelling) are truly wonderful.
Six: The children have played that digital piano into the ground. Two notes are malfunctioning, so it sounds just like a broken hammer on an actual piano. Owen still plays it three or four hours a day.
Seven: We made it up to ski again, this time for an entire day. Phoebe did her first terrain park. I did not ski the box with them.
Now they want to know when they can ski without me. Just because I wouldn’t ski the box! So rude. Soon they’re going to be asking me to drop them at the gondola.
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