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the first 3 posts on my friends page were from pregnant women. lol. and now me. that'll make 4.
I ordered shirts from walmart.com today. I live in t-shirts. seriously. and they sell them at like 2 for $12. you can't find maternity shirts that cheap anywhere else. I got 2 sets, so 4 total. they'll be trashed before june.
my last entry detailed the concept of family presentations that our co-op does. the idea is each week one family gets to present.. something. something you do as a family, for the most part. we had ours last week. there isn't a lot that we ALL do, that would also be easy to present on, but we settled on reading aloud. I mean, talking about reading aloud, long chapter books, to the kids. we've been doing it for 3-ish years now and have read more books than I could probably remember if I were to list them off. so after a very disorganized intro where all my kids tried saying their names all at once, I talked about how we read. I mentioned a small handful of books we've read, talked about why it was important to me (I seriously couldn't be convinced that there was anything interesting in books that had too many words and not enough pictures, up until my late teens. I wanted to dispel this myth with my kids by.. reading the stories to them. it's working. germaine is reading LOTR now, and Linus, though still struggling with reading, listens intently when chris or I reads.) then we finished up with.. a skit. see, talking about something you do as a family was half of it. the other half is getting the whole family involved in doing the actual presentation. so after pointing out that we were reading the little house books, and that chris was reading Farmer Boy to them, the kids presented a bit of one of their favorite chapters from farmer boy: when the parents left for a week, leaving the 4 kids home alone! they had fun, and I got a lot of compliments afterwards on getting that many little people to remember their lines :)
um, anyway, this was supposed to be an odds and ends post, but that was a really long paragraph about that. this next one will probably be equally as long...
so germaine's girls club that she went to for two years didn't start up this fall. the leader wanted a break and said she'd start in december. then december came and went.. anyway, we finally heard form her and she decided to overhaul the group and start a performing arts center instead. dance and a bit of theater had been incorporated into girls club before, but it was still mainly a virtue club with once a month meetings. now it's a series of classes: theater, music, ballet, or modern dance. plus an adult choir. and they meet... weekly. it's kind of a drive. but it's also not a sign-up-for-the-whole-year thing. they're doing month-long sessions. at a cost per session. it's gonna be a lot of money and a lot of driving. but Germaine has friends out there, and Ingrid really wants ballet, so I signed them up for the first session. there's one this spring, then summer off, then they start up in the fall. this is kind of a "we'll see how this goes" thing. I told the leader up front that we might do 3 sessions over the next year. I can't do every week for 8 months straight. who knows, maybe I'll get used to it. but more likely we'll be taking at least every other month off. I'll probably have a screaming infant in the car. that puts a dampering on things.
oh, and just to make this actually a random updates post.. chris's turtle died last month. he had her for like 10 years (I gave her to him as a birthday present before we were married). he was really down on himself for a while, thinking he must have done somethign wrong. hoping she would be his buddy for at least 50 years...
oh, and speaking of before we were married, we hit 10 years this june. our plans of having an anniversary trip in lieu of the honeymoon we never went on are kind of out the window, what with getting pregnant and being due 5 days after our anniversary. of course I'll actually give birth another week and a half later, but jsut to be safe and all that. :P I don't know, maybe we can still take a weekend, it'll just have to be local. and I'll be huge.
I ordered shirts from walmart.com today. I live in t-shirts. seriously. and they sell them at like 2 for $12. you can't find maternity shirts that cheap anywhere else. I got 2 sets, so 4 total. they'll be trashed before june.
my last entry detailed the concept of family presentations that our co-op does. the idea is each week one family gets to present.. something. something you do as a family, for the most part. we had ours last week. there isn't a lot that we ALL do, that would also be easy to present on, but we settled on reading aloud. I mean, talking about reading aloud, long chapter books, to the kids. we've been doing it for 3-ish years now and have read more books than I could probably remember if I were to list them off. so after a very disorganized intro where all my kids tried saying their names all at once, I talked about how we read. I mentioned a small handful of books we've read, talked about why it was important to me (I seriously couldn't be convinced that there was anything interesting in books that had too many words and not enough pictures, up until my late teens. I wanted to dispel this myth with my kids by.. reading the stories to them. it's working. germaine is reading LOTR now, and Linus, though still struggling with reading, listens intently when chris or I reads.) then we finished up with.. a skit. see, talking about something you do as a family was half of it. the other half is getting the whole family involved in doing the actual presentation. so after pointing out that we were reading the little house books, and that chris was reading Farmer Boy to them, the kids presented a bit of one of their favorite chapters from farmer boy: when the parents left for a week, leaving the 4 kids home alone! they had fun, and I got a lot of compliments afterwards on getting that many little people to remember their lines :)
um, anyway, this was supposed to be an odds and ends post, but that was a really long paragraph about that. this next one will probably be equally as long...
so germaine's girls club that she went to for two years didn't start up this fall. the leader wanted a break and said she'd start in december. then december came and went.. anyway, we finally heard form her and she decided to overhaul the group and start a performing arts center instead. dance and a bit of theater had been incorporated into girls club before, but it was still mainly a virtue club with once a month meetings. now it's a series of classes: theater, music, ballet, or modern dance. plus an adult choir. and they meet... weekly. it's kind of a drive. but it's also not a sign-up-for-the-whole-year thing. they're doing month-long sessions. at a cost per session. it's gonna be a lot of money and a lot of driving. but Germaine has friends out there, and Ingrid really wants ballet, so I signed them up for the first session. there's one this spring, then summer off, then they start up in the fall. this is kind of a "we'll see how this goes" thing. I told the leader up front that we might do 3 sessions over the next year. I can't do every week for 8 months straight. who knows, maybe I'll get used to it. but more likely we'll be taking at least every other month off. I'll probably have a screaming infant in the car. that puts a dampering on things.
oh, and just to make this actually a random updates post.. chris's turtle died last month. he had her for like 10 years (I gave her to him as a birthday present before we were married). he was really down on himself for a while, thinking he must have done somethign wrong. hoping she would be his buddy for at least 50 years...
oh, and speaking of before we were married, we hit 10 years this june. our plans of having an anniversary trip in lieu of the honeymoon we never went on are kind of out the window, what with getting pregnant and being due 5 days after our anniversary. of course I'll actually give birth another week and a half later, but jsut to be safe and all that. :P I don't know, maybe we can still take a weekend, it'll just have to be local. and I'll be huge.