Before I forget...because I will!

Yesterday, Monday, was the first day back to WNHEN co-op. It totally ate up my day and it's only 3 hours! 

I began the day getting up at 7:00 (I fully intended on getting up at 5:45 or 6:15 at the latest lol). I showered, dressed, ate breakfast (or wait, did I eat?), and made sure the kiddos were prepared. I made sure I had my materials for my class that I am teaching. We left about 7:45 so that we could stop at the eye doctors office before co-op because my right nose piece fell off somewhere some time ago. I have a spare pair that I wore the first day that I discovered they were broken but it gave me such a headache I decided to endure the poking into my nose. The eye doctor staff is rude and annoying so I have no new nose piece. Yea, grrr.

Once at Co-Op all went well. I spent the first 1 1/2 hours hanging out with another "Jeff" (his name is Geoffrey) :) I'm not sure how old he is but he likes balloons! And he knows the color green well. He was the only toddler at co-op that day and the parent that was going to be in the nursery was sick so I got the privilege. Had to change a diaper- ick. Haven't done that in probably 8 years!

Both of my kids are taking the Astronomy and the Bible class. Fox worries that it is a little above his head but I hope it isn't. Lee chatted away last night while doing dishes about the class. Very interesting views being presented. They both thought the lady doing the class was funny. And they were given junk food- that's always an incentive to say good things lol!

My class went okay. One of the kids in the class was excited to do 'writing' while the others were nonchalant. There wasn't a whiteboard in the class so I had to improvise an activity (the kids I'm sure wouldn't have minded either way). We started on rewriting Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star with synonyms from the thesaurus. They are supposed to bring the finished work back on Monday. For an added challenge I asked them to do it with antonyms as well. We were cracking up with the way some of their lullabies were turning out. (Fizzle, sparkle, teeny fireball... lol).

I had to rush home to get to my class and didn't get lunch (I'm pretty sure I ate breakfast- an egg maybe??). My brain was in a fog though at class. Instructor speaks in Spanish at the start of class and I couldn't understand what he was asking me. Just drew a blank. I am liking the class though. It is very well done. The fact that Mr. Nesbitt is also an English teacher helps us to understand the system of Spanish. He shows/tells us how it would be in English sometimes and then we learn how it is in Spanish. 

Today, Tuesday, has been okay but for the 'give them an inch, they take a mile'. Lee slept in until almost 11 am. Neither of them get started on school without my harassing them. Yes, harassing is right. We did get to Weekly Goal setting though today. We plan to do that on Mondays but it didn't happen. They looked at their previous goals and discussed if they were reasonable and obtainable or simply outrageous. All of them were obtainable but they forgot to work towards their goals. This time I suggested that they put the goal sheet in a place they will see every day. One of Fox's goals is to finish school everyday (strange? not really for us!) but today he didn't feel to motivated to work toward the goal. Unfortunately, since they did not work towards completing school, they were not able to do the things they wanted to.

Tonight I finally took care of the turkey that has been sitting in the bottom of the fridge thawing. It was a slightly smaller turkey than the last (14 lbs instead of 16, I think) so I only got maybe 2 lbs of ground turkey out of it. I can't seem to get the meat off of the legs though so it goes to waste. I'm not happy about that but I just can't get it off! I decided not to make broth this time but now I wish I had of. I still have a small jar and a large jar in the freezer from last turkey :) Tonight we had a casserole type dish that consisted of Campbell's Cream of Chicken condensed soup, 1 and some cup of turkey broth, 1 1/2 cup of water, about 2 cups dry shell noodles, frozen peas and chunks of turkey on top. That could be why I didn't get 3 lbs of ground turkey this time. Oh, well, it was a good dinner anyway :)

I'm not entirely sure why I felt compelled to write all of this down. Perhaps because when Friday rolls around and I do our Weekly Wrap-Up I don't want to be like "Um, uh, well, uh" like I do so often. If it's not written down, I can't recall it, it seems. So now it is after 6pm and we've missed 4-H (to the horror of Fox who says we need it more than we need dinner). Both of the kids still have school to complete also.

Well, guess I better get to it then!