12:01 pmA few shorties:
Last night there was a lunar eclipse. It was very visible and very cool from our time zone. Of course we had to get up at 4am to look at it (and take horrible pictures, thanks to a two-million watt street light and my keen inability to work my camera settings). But it was dang cool. Look around online to find some cool pictures of it. I won’t waste your time and optical energy by posting my lousy pictures…
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Today for “literature”, the lesson was on rhyming couplets. We read up on what a couplet is and what happens when a couplet rhymes (ummm, it becomes a rhyming couplet, duh). I then asked Jachin to read out loud for me several poems; one by Robert Louis Stevenson and another by Robert Browning. Jachin scanned through them, reading them silently before the big, oral production. When he finished reading silently he turned to me and said with complete seriousness, “Okay. Well. How should I read this? What is my motivation?”
And we haven’t even had a formal lesson on “motivation”… he may need an agent.
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We are planning a trip to Legoland and Sea World next month. After one whole week into school, I am very ready for a break. Jon is trying to possibly back out, but there has already been too much family discussion and excitement over it. We have to go now or the kids and I will all explode from disappointment. Plus, once I post it here, it HAS to happen.
So we are going to Legoland. We will dine poolside with Shamu. The end.
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My husband put up a post about the local City Council race. The names of the candidates make it a colorful race, indeed. Jachin and I drove around yesterday taking pics of the campaign signs for Daddy’s post. Yes, our family is neurotic… why do you ask? I pulled my son out of public school so we could drive around all day taking pictures of campaign signs so that Daddy could write a blog post making fun of their names. That’s how we roll.
Go here to read his post and see our great picture-taking skills.
I was a little taken aback when the pictures were all snapped and the giggles died down and car grew kind of quiet and then Jachin piped up: “So Mom, who are you going to vote for, anyway?”
I’ve been WAY too focused on clown jokes to think that far ahead…
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You know you’re a blog addict when your whole family pulls together for your blog post. We do it here all the time. Another sign your blog is a big deal in your house: when you daughter does something special she immediately says, “You gotta blog this Mom!”
Comment by Leslie — August 28, 2007 @ 7:11 pm
love the motivation deal…a star is born!
Comment by kate — August 28, 2007 @ 7:46 pm