okay, to sum it up....no, to condense it down for you;
Lately in Jenn's world:
Grandfather fell, was so badly dehydrated most of his life that his kidneys began failing. After an E.R. stay, a home-care stay and switching of his board and care home, he passed away two months later. After the E.R. visit, I re-doubled my efforts to apply for Medi-Cal for him, a process started in October of last year. After visiting the office an hour away, several times a week for weeks....we received his approval letter the day after he died. Yay.
Grandmother was visiting Grandfather the day before he died, she passed out at a restaurant and broke her wrist. Good news, the last 3 episodes like this were not a heart problem, which she was being monitored for, but her previous Dr. had her on both a blood pressure pill and a water pill- which lowers your blood pressure, and she didn't have high blood pressure to begin with. She is now off those pills and no longer dizzy. Yay. She does have a cast on her left arm and she is left-handed. Yay.
Sky had an idea to go into business with some neat people we know. We researched, grabbed a domain name, looked for a location...and the business partners pulled out. It would have been both fun and scary, so I'm not really sad about it not happening.
Sky interviewed for a job in a beach city near Santa Barbara. I went with him on interview day because he was nervous, and I fell in love with the town. The job was short-term, 8 years, so we were talking of him commuting for a year or two and then we would rent a house. I was not sure what we would do with the kids and the whole School-of-arts-thing. Homeschooling is very portable, that would be no problem if we upped and moved...but the school of the arts is a very specific thing, and very hard to get into. We weren't sure what we would do. He did not get the job, I am mostly relieved, but a little sad. I never thought I would live in a beach city, and I did fall in love with the area.
Every once in a while, I get the feeling we are not doing enough Science for Amie, so I begin a restless search for a program. I was considering using "The Story of Science" with her and then I found Wayfarers curriculum guides, which schedule this series for you.
I will forever be a curriculum junkie- yup, I purchased a new curriculum program. Here, I'll give you a handy little link so you can click over and drool over something shiny and new, too. Wayfarer's History Curriculum by Barefoot Ragamuffin Curricula ***here
the plan is to use their Grammar/Lit program, the Science, music and Bible portion of Wayfarers. The kids are finishing up the History programs we selected for this year, which are Veritas Press 1815 to present for Amie and Oak Meadows World History using the Glencoe textbook -for Demi.
I will forever be optimistic that the perfect curriculum guide is just around the corner for me. :)
Amen.
I am reading "King Arthur and the knights of the round table" with Amie for her lit class at Biola Star. It is truly a bad read. It is so bad that I tried to find cliff notes for it so we wouldn't have to finish it. I've sunk truly so low as a homeschool mom. !! Could not find one, so we need to finish it this week so Amie can write a book report on it. Yay.
I am planning to move my blog over from a self-hosted platform to Squarespace. I'm really, really scared to do it. I've been busy playing with squarespace and making a new header for the blog and making a side-bar. The migrating over part terrifies me though. whimper.
So, bloggy friends, here is a mid-night/ late-night frank post of all that is going on in my world lately. I'm usually afraid to let it all hang out, but it's all so crazy that it's kind of funny. The mad parts of my life make such a whirl-wind in my brain, that for months, I haven't been able to slow it all down and articulate it. I left out the part about the trust my step-father left us and my for real-psycho step-sister....that was not hyperbole at all.
Yay.
I may or may not delete this post.....