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Archive for August, 2008

Pulling Weeds and Easy Buttons

Posted: Saturday, August 30th, 2008 @ 8:55 am in Math | 2 Comments »

This morning I took my two dogs for a walk around the neighborhood while Michael rode fast by us.  He has quite an exercise program and is very dedicated to it.  Routine, he likes that.   It was hot on our walk, and humid, and I don’t do well with either.  Brutus really […]

Cooking Boys

Posted: Thursday, August 28th, 2008 @ 9:19 am in Family Stuff | No Comments »

I have been very busy the last six days painting the kitchen (3 gallons of paint), the powder room (2 gallons of paint, one of white and one with color), the family room (2-story walls and 5 gallons of paint), and the foyer (2-story walls and 3 gallons of paint) and one […]

Stupid Policy

Posted: Sunday, August 24th, 2008 @ 10:05 pm in Boycott | 1 Comment »

Tonight for some reason I received an email from a hs’ing mom who is a member in one of my local support groups.  She was inquiring as to whether she could renew her membership since she just graduated her youngest and the child is off to college.  She would like to stay […]

Painting, and more painting

Posted: Saturday, August 23rd, 2008 @ 9:21 pm in Family Stuff | 3 Comments »

This morning, bright and early—-well, not that early as compared to Early Birds but very early by a late-sleeper’s clock (8am)—-the 5 gallon pail of paint was opened, paint poured into the paint tray, the roller was dipped into the paint, and color went onto the family room walls. Soon color […]

A week in review

Posted: Saturday, August 16th, 2008 @ 8:23 am in Family Stuff | 1 Comment »

Michael completed building a 3′ high stone wall, about 60′ in length around our patio at the yard level. It looks beautiful and he felt so proud of his accomplishment. He should!
We celebrated my birthday on Thursday with a trip to our favorite Mexican Restaurant. Delicious food, great company […]

School Began

Posted: Saturday, August 9th, 2008 @ 3:58 pm in Family Stuff | No Comments »

To say it has been busy is an understatement. We started school on Monday. Went quite well too but it was a different start then we normally have. Mark is doing chemistry this year but dislikes science. Or so he says.
I pulled out the Wild Goose Company’s chemistry kits gathering dust […]