I love, love, love my bike. I got it in May and I’ve taken it all over town all summer. Zoe learned to ride her two-wheeler without training wheels this summer, so the kids and I have been bike-riding fools. We biked to summer camp, to the park, to the local rec center, to grandmas, to cub scouts. Pretty much everywhere. My bike is a Trek 7000 WSD (“WSD” means: for chicks). It’s green and beautiful. You should go out today and buy one.

 Here is me (taken today) loving my bike:

I still need to find a sweet basket for the front. I currently wear a little backpack when I ride, to carry drinks and locks and what-not. I need to find the perfect basket… something with flowers or butterflies on it.

I’ll be sad when it gets cold and we get all of that fabulous Utah snow, and I’ll have to pack my bike away for the winter. *sniff* Dumb winter…

It’s been a few days. Where have I been? Here. At home. Freaking out that I am ruining my son because it has been 4 days into home school and he has yet to complete a science lesson, and so of course he is getting dumber by the minute because a child needs a good, solid 3 hours of science a day just to get by in life and what on Earth made me think that I could do this???

Wow. That was the mother of all run-on sentences. Oh no, see?? Run-on sentences! I am so unqualified! Is the word “unqualified”? “De-qualified”? “Misqualified”? “Antiqualified”? AHHHH!! OK. Take a breath. Count to something. I’m counting. Oh! I’m counting. I can do that! See, I can teach him counting!

Good hell. I never really knew what TGIF meant until today, folks. The idea that I don’t have to worry about lessons for two days makes me ecstatic. I am clicking that button in my brain that officially relieves me of worrying about it. I really can do that. I do it with Jon all the time. *flick!* The button is switched and that’s it! It’s a fabulous skill to have.

Also, our hydroseed was “sprayed” on last night. See:

Don’t you love the stakes and ribbons? “My wood stakes bring all the kids to the yard…” If the neighbor kids weren’t thinking about playing in the hydroseed before, they’re thinking about it now. They’re thinking they want to untie all of those ribbons and retie them to their bikes. Or something. I don’t know. I’m just thinking that bright ribbons may not be the best deterrent for small kids. And if the neighbor boys discover that they can actually pull out the stakes and use them as huge swords… well, it’s all over.

In other news, I went out last night to see “Becoming Jane”. *sigh* What a fabulous movie. I knew how it would end (with it being sort of a “true story” kind of movie) but I was still so bummed. Why, Jane, why? Marry him, you dope! Oh, and James McAvoy… one of my new favorite cuties. He totally fits into my mold of heros with accents possessing decent fighting skills. Plus he played a smashing Mr. Tumnus in “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe”… and we all know how I dig CS Lewis. Good movie. It gets a “yup” and if I ever decide to write another movie review for my Movie Review page, it may just be that movie. “Becoming Jane”… see it. And bring tissues.

And in more other news (wow, that made no sense), “War” came out today. Hello. Jason Statham. Do I need to say anything else on this subject? No. The answer is no, I do not. The movie will no doubt be a bit ridiculous, full of blood and face smashing, but again… we will have the swoon-inducing accents and fighting skills. I have put off looking for any reviews of this movie because if they are bad (and they may, indeed, be bad) I don’t want to hear it. I will not have a harsh word spoken about my Mr. Statham. Not a one. He is rad. Period.

Yes, I said “rad”.

Actually, I just said “rad”, “in more other news”, and “antiqualified”… all in one post.

Got a problem with that?

…it probably means that I have somehow melded with my house on a molecular level. I have become one with it, never to emerge from it again. Never to see the light of day.

Ok, it’s not quite that bad, but this homeschool thing is an adjustment. And I thought it would be tough on Jachin… but it’s really not so much for him. He’s diggin’ it. Me, on the other hand? Two days into it and I’m getting the shakes. I feel like I have cabin fever. Have you ever been snowed in anywhere for a few days? That’s how I feel. Except that it really makes no sense because the kids and I spent two hours at the pool today. In the sunshine. And we practically had the place to ourselves, because everyone else was at school! Hello! Non-crowded, sun-shiney, chlorine smelling niceness, and I manage to find a way to feel lonely and isolated. I’m a nut. It’s completely mental.

I’m hoping after a week or so I’ll feel better. I need to find my groovy routine. And more frequent nights out may be in order. Or something. Something…

On a peppier note: Did I mention that Jachin is diggin’ it? Cuz he is. Here is what he did today while his friends were sitting somewhere in a Social Studies class:

And did I also mention that there were only about 20 other people there? Notice how there is NO LINE for the slide? He just kept sliding down and then running straight back up the stairs to go again…

And here’s what they did yesterday at roughly the same time in the afternoon:

The best thing of all so far: they’ve hardly fought at all the past two days, despite being together so much. Knock on wood, this could really, truly, actually be a good thing…