Promises Kept

Well, hello! Here it is THE NEXT WEEK and I'm actually blogging. Look at me sticking to my promises!

And then we run into my usual problem--what do I talk about that I didn't already mention last week? Someone wise once said, "The days are long but the years are short." I completely get that quote now--the day-to-day tedium is exhausting and doesn't look like it adds up to much, but then time keeps marching on and suddenly the children are older and we have more wrinkles and everyone wonders where the time went?

Mat survived a visit from his work supervisor this week. He gets "graded" on his performance at the end of her visit and we are happy to report that he got an A-! Here's hoping his counterpart in Houston did just as well.

The Hurricane Princess found some scissors, again, and trimmed manes and tails on ponies that were not hers this time, so she had to make restitution to Miss Enthusiasm. In this case, it was paying her off with the last of her paper money from her birthday stash, which caused much wailing but seemed to get the lesson across.

Miss Enthusiasm and The Eldest are doing well in school. Miss E is finally settling into the groove of things and has brought all her grades up to an acceptable level (so far, there's been a consistent adjustment effect in transitioning from public school to online school, but they've been weathering it well). On the other hand, The Eldest is FAILING art. This is humorous, actually, as it's her favorite subject and it's only due to her teacher forgetting to put the points in the gradebook for one of her major projects.

The Boy continues to build his reading fluency. Sometimes, when we run errands, I'll have him bring a book and read to us. It beats listening to the kids complaining about my musical choices or bickering with each other. He also got to spend some time with his grandparents on Saturday and came back with a BALD HEAD. Free haircut from Nana! Well, and it wasn't really all that bald. Just much shorter than the hair I'd sent him off with.

I've been adjusting to reading on a deadline. Granted, all these books I've gotten have deadlines that I can easily handle, but I've got a pile of them (about 10) to read by the middle of October. And it's kind of hard to hold off reading another book until I've written a review. I've taken to emailing myself, which is kind of odd, but I'll get over the oddity because it's pretty handy.

The big girls and I went to the broadcast of the women's session of General Conference last night. I love being able to take my girls and have this spiritual experience together. I think I'm going to challenge them to read President Uchtdorf's talk again and see what they took away from his parable.

Ok, that's all I've got for this week, folks. Maybe we'll do something interesting like make cinnamon rolls next week so that I have something else to talk about! Ciao!