Long Monday

Posted by Cyn | Filed under Family, Health

I was so busy Mon­day, and so wiped out, that I actu­ally scrib­bled this out on paper and just now (Thurs­day) got a chance to type it in.

We had Hope until this morn­ing, which was nice. But then she left, which I knew would hap­pen, but it still wasn’t as nice. I miss her! Kioshi did finally decide that she might not be so fear­some, and per­mit­ted her to offer scritches while he stropped her ankles to mark her. I fig­ure that made Diana (Hope’s dog) very curi­ous when Hope got home!

The only good that about her depar­ture is that she had to leave to come back, right?

Katie had an appoint­ment, then we ran some errands, then we came home and col­lapsed. Pretty bor­ing, all in all.

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Well, that was fun. Not really.

Posted by Cyn | Filed under College, Family, Health, Kvetching

I feel like I’ve dri­ven across the state, when I really spent very lit­tle time in the car today — for an Atlantan.

We went to see Katie’s doc­tor, fill­ing out the inevitable “It’s Jan­u­ary!” paper­work. Do they think peo­ple always move from one Janaury to the next, or what? I mean, when we sign in, there’s a form that asks if there’s been any change in our con­tact infor­ma­tion or insur­ance, and we say “No,” unless the answer is “Yes,” in which case we ask for the forms so that we can update the records. Appar­ently cur­rent admin­is­tra­tive thought is that clients can­not be trusted that far, so they make us do all the forms again every Jan­u­ary. In every office. Between me and Katie, that’s a lot of extra forms being filled out for no par­tic­u­lar reason.

We picked up pre­scrip­tions in two places. We dropped off pre­scrip­tions. We went to the bank. We dropped off a util­ity pay­ment to avoid the elec­tronic pay­ment fee. I know we did some­thing else, but my mind is gone.
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Read more | Comments (4) | January 15th, 2008

A Day in the van

Posted by Cyn | Filed under Education, Family, Homeschooling

And it was, truly. Which is why this looks much the same as it did last night.

Katie and I drove all over metro Atlanta, test­ing out the new wheels in the process. A med­ical appoint­ment, a trip to the bank, the post office, our mail drop, a craft store, a school sup­ply place, a cou­ple of book stores, Phoenix & Dragon, and some­thing I know that I’m forgetting.

You wouldn’t believe how much “home­school­ing” gets done on the road. Had the dealer had a van in stock with a DVD player installed, I could eas­ily have jus­ti­fied it for purely edu­ca­tional pur­poses. As it is, I’m glad my lap­top has a DVD player, as we find var­i­ous BBC and PBS series pretty good sup­ple­men­tary mate­ri­als at times.

No AV mate­ri­als today, though — just books, paper, cal­cu­la­tor, and a lot of dis­cus­sion. Sci­ence, alge­bra, world his­tory, crit­i­cal think­ing, Eng­lish, vocab­u­lary, cur­rent events…

Oh! We got our Latin texts! Katie and I have decided to start study­ing Latin together this sum­mer. I’ve always regret­ted not hav­ing had a chance to study it, and it can only help her. So here we go!

The girl got some knit­ting done in the car while we talked, too. As she gets more con­fi­dence in dri­ving, I look for­ward to get­ting some stitch­ing done while she dri­ves. On the other hand, she’d get fewer lessons done. Hmmm.

I need to study to try to keep a lit­tle bit ahead of her. We’re going to have another blog where she, Sam and I post about our learn­ing adven­tures. It isn’t quite up yet, unfortunately.

Namaste,

Cyn

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