Random (and boring?)

1. This is the stack of homework my 9 year old son had to do to make up the work he missed when he was sick all last week with the swine flu. (Can you read that note from his teacher? Super adorable!) Oh and yes my twins are in the same classroom and no I do not want to hear why that is wrong. It is right for my family and my kids and that is what I know.

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).