I felt like I was being punished with all that homework! I was stressed out and cranky because in addition to taking care of sick kids (my 9 year old daughter stayed home one day because of an awful headache and my 5 year old son didn't go back to school until Wednesday) I had to make him do all that homework. Of course since he hadn't learned how to do any of it because he hadn't been at school I had to teach him the lessons first without any kind of guide as to how they would teach it at school. I was so thankful when we were done yesterday! I would not make a good homeschooler because the thought of all I need to get done stresses me out. As a perfect example, I am homeschooling my kids in religion (with the church curriculum) and since we have the entire years worth of work at the beginning, I make my kids work on it so much to get through it that we finish about half way through the year. I hate to have things hanging over my head and I always finish all my chores before I will let myself relax. That also pertains to school type stuff if I have the ability to work ahead.
2. I made a few sales at my shop which was a very nice way to cheer me up.
3. We packed up some boxes for soldiers.
4. I went to the grocery store and have a story about that but I don't want to share it because I feel like it makes me sound like I am patting myself on the back for something nice I did that I feel is no big deal or is something everyone would/should have done. I want to know what other people would have done in the same situation since people went sort of crazy about how generous I was for doing something I really don't think was that generous, but I don't want to post a "I'm such an awesome person" post which is how it comes off sounding. My husband would have done the same thing I did, but his reason for doing it is so different it seems like it means something totally different about him and then I wonder what other people would have done and why. I did love that it happened in front of my 11 year old daughter because I think it is way easier to teach kids to be good people by example than with words.
5. I "crocheted" this bag. In quotes because I actually don't know how to crochet for real. I mean now I do, but when my 11 year old daughter asked me to teach her I had no idea. I took the leftover square scraps from when I was trying to learn and put them together to make this bag. No idea what I will do with it, but I LOVE it. It isn't "right" but who cares.
6. We also went to the circus over the weekend. My mom bought us the tickets for my husband's birthday. I have mixed feelings about the circus but we did have a good time. The funniest part was that when we got there, my 5 year old started crying and said he didn't want to go. I finally figured out that he had no idea what to expect and he really hates that (as do I). We got a little program booklet and looked through it and he said he still didn't want to be there. After it was over he said "I didn't want to be here, but I did like it". He is so funny and doesn't even mean to be. I was so nervous for the performers the entire time that I sort of didn't enjoy it. Is this a mom thing? Because I never remember being so worried about them before!
7. I feel very boring lately. I have all these stories and then as soon as I sit down to write them out, I completely forget what I was going to tell you. So instead of what I want to write since I can't remember, you get these lame updates today. Everyone is back at school today and everyone (but me) is healthy so hopefully soon I will be feeling back to normal and be able to remember things.
8. I have some weird cold that is giving me low fevers. I dislike this for two reasons. Reason number one is that (obviously) having a cold constantly kind of sucks. Number two (ha...number two) is that right before my thyroid cancer was diagnosed I had all these colds that ran into each other (just like this) and was stuffy, lost my voice and had a low fever for a long time. This is exactly what it was like and now that I have had a cold for almost a month I am getting a little tiny bit worried. I am sure it is nothing, I really am, but it is just so similar to what happened before that I worry. Call me paranoid, which I hope I am, but it just doesn't feel right. Obviously if it doesn't get better soon I will call my doctor. I just hate to be a hypochondriac so I am waiting.
One last thing. I was talking to someone recently who said something about how cancer is something a person makes or causes themselves because they have something to work out (or something like that). I just want to say for the record that I think that is bullshit. And as much as I believe in karma, I do not believe that people get cancer because of something bad they have done. That would just be stupid. Even if I did something horrible to deserve this what could my kids have done to deserve having to deal with that? I just don't believe it is true. (And also for the record I can't think of anything awful I have done anyway).


