Friday Five
I will be honest, I am not sorry for this week to end. My kids don't have school on Monday and I'm happy to have a lazy, kick back, long weekend -- I swear we deserve it.
1. The schools buried my kids in homework this week for the end of the term. We've never had it this bad. My high school son has lots of hard classes, lets see since last Thursday he's had (I'm sure I've left a few things out): 3 AP Chem finals, a 700 pnt Chem Lab Notebook Due, 2 Chem Asg.s, 3 AP American History Finals, 2 History Asg., 3 PreCalculus Math Finals, 3 Math Assignments, 2 AP Biology Finals, 2 Bio Asgns, Had to read a novel and write two papers on it for Honors English, a Civics final (which the teacher lost -- gave son a zero which nearly put him over the edge -- um, I did email the teacher at this point (nicely) but my thought was seriously if my son is in class the day of the test, has 102% in the class already -- what are the chances that he just messed around during that period and never took the test? Yeah, I emailed him and asked if he'd look again, and he found the test two days later in with another class, but at least he found it!). Okay, enough whining. It appears that he's done well so far on the tests they corrected in class. I think he's going to be ready for college. :)
My daughter has also had two major projects due each day this week and she's only in 6th grade (although the gifted and talented program she's in is intense -- next year is going to be a breeze for her).
2. Youngest daughter hasn't had any homework this week, she's just been happily playing, until she fell on the monkey bars at school Wed. and might have broken her thumb. They couldn't tell for sure on the x-ray, there was a shadow but it was too swollen to see if there's an actual break. So she's in a splint for ten days and then they re x-ray. She spent 3 hours crying last night. She said it hurt but it had also turned purple and blue and she was quite upset that it might look ugly. Yes, I'm happy to be moving to a weekend. Thankfully, DH (who's out of town still) talked to her over the phone and was able to suggest some fun activities she could do with the splint which diverted her. Yay for dad! Tonight she's calling him every hour, just kidding, maybe.
3. It is the most beautiful sunny day -- rumor is that we'll break 70 degrees today. I've already taken one nice walk. It's lovely.
4. This was going to be a big writing week for me but I only wrote Mon. and a little Tues. About 4,000 words. I'm hoping to write this afternoon and over the weekend though to make up for the rest of the chaos that distracted me. I do have one slight problem, I seem to have painted one character into a corner and I can't figure out how to get her out yet. It's going to take a long rope, lol. I keep brainstorming and hoping I'll have one of Rose's plot dreams or something to show me the way. So far, nada. I know this character will come through for me though, she's much more opiniated than I initially thought and has had several power struggles with her sister who is really my protag. It'll be interesting if nothing else. That's something I love about writiing.
5. And then to end a stressful week -- I received books in the mail from Robinellen. Totally made my week. Thanks, Robin.
So I think chaos has left the building right behind her boyfriend stress (I'm praying I'm right) and now it's just the rest of us here left to totally crash and recouperate from their eventful tenure in our home. Maybe we'll escape and go see Race to Witch Mountain this weekend.
Happy Weekend!
1. The schools buried my kids in homework this week for the end of the term. We've never had it this bad. My high school son has lots of hard classes, lets see since last Thursday he's had (I'm sure I've left a few things out): 3 AP Chem finals, a 700 pnt Chem Lab Notebook Due, 2 Chem Asg.s, 3 AP American History Finals, 2 History Asg., 3 PreCalculus Math Finals, 3 Math Assignments, 2 AP Biology Finals, 2 Bio Asgns, Had to read a novel and write two papers on it for Honors English, a Civics final (which the teacher lost -- gave son a zero which nearly put him over the edge -- um, I did email the teacher at this point (nicely) but my thought was seriously if my son is in class the day of the test, has 102% in the class already -- what are the chances that he just messed around during that period and never took the test? Yeah, I emailed him and asked if he'd look again, and he found the test two days later in with another class, but at least he found it!). Okay, enough whining. It appears that he's done well so far on the tests they corrected in class. I think he's going to be ready for college. :)
My daughter has also had two major projects due each day this week and she's only in 6th grade (although the gifted and talented program she's in is intense -- next year is going to be a breeze for her).
2. Youngest daughter hasn't had any homework this week, she's just been happily playing, until she fell on the monkey bars at school Wed. and might have broken her thumb. They couldn't tell for sure on the x-ray, there was a shadow but it was too swollen to see if there's an actual break. So she's in a splint for ten days and then they re x-ray. She spent 3 hours crying last night. She said it hurt but it had also turned purple and blue and she was quite upset that it might look ugly. Yes, I'm happy to be moving to a weekend. Thankfully, DH (who's out of town still) talked to her over the phone and was able to suggest some fun activities she could do with the splint which diverted her. Yay for dad! Tonight she's calling him every hour, just kidding, maybe.
3. It is the most beautiful sunny day -- rumor is that we'll break 70 degrees today. I've already taken one nice walk. It's lovely.
4. This was going to be a big writing week for me but I only wrote Mon. and a little Tues. About 4,000 words. I'm hoping to write this afternoon and over the weekend though to make up for the rest of the chaos that distracted me. I do have one slight problem, I seem to have painted one character into a corner and I can't figure out how to get her out yet. It's going to take a long rope, lol. I keep brainstorming and hoping I'll have one of Rose's plot dreams or something to show me the way. So far, nada. I know this character will come through for me though, she's much more opiniated than I initially thought and has had several power struggles with her sister who is really my protag. It'll be interesting if nothing else. That's something I love about writiing.
5. And then to end a stressful week -- I received books in the mail from Robinellen. Totally made my week. Thanks, Robin.
So I think chaos has left the building right behind her boyfriend stress (I'm praying I'm right) and now it's just the rest of us here left to totally crash and recouperate from their eventful tenure in our home. Maybe we'll escape and go see Race to Witch Mountain this weekend.
Happy Weekend!