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  1. I didn't finish anything this week, BUT I did pass a big milestone. I've never been able to get past The Grand Inquisitor chapter in The Brothers Karamasov. But this time I am listening to it, instead of reading it which is working much better for me, for this book. I'm now several chapters past that daunting chapter. I actually was really absorbed by it and am joining the ranks of those who say Dostoyevsky is brilliant!
  2. This review made me laugh out loud. I enjoyed These Old Shades the first time I read it, but it didn't improve on re-reading. Heyer does that Shakespearean thing in more than one novel of a young lady playing a boy. This novel is set earlier than her regency novels, I think. So I think some buying and selling of servants/peasants might have been going on. I think Avon had estates in both France and England, didn't he?
  3. Good morning! It is super foggy out and supposed to go up to 60 degrees today! But I think be rainy also. Today is certamen day! We have 8 kids and two teams competing. My biggest fear is that the organizers will try to recruit me to be a moderator. I always feel intensely intimidated by all those Latin teachers since I just learned along with me own teens and never got past the NLE 2 level! So that will take up most of the day. Dh has been doing amazing things cleaning out and reorganizing our basement. Today the carpet guys are coming to fix our carpet in what we are now dubbing the media room. We had to rip out the built in shelves so there is a big gap between where the carpet ends and the wall begins. Ds 22 yo is going to take ds 19 yo to his flute lesson this a.m. DD 16 yo is up in New York for the weekend, having a blast hopefully! No idea what's for dinner. I kind of want dh to take me out, but that might not happen as I think he is planning on visiting his dad today. Happy Saturday!
  4. Good morning! Rainy and cooler here after our midweek taste of spring! Already done: fed pets, prayer, post To do: Get dressed Mass breakfast Clean master bath Take son to community college Shop for dinner p/u son Plan to spend afternoon napping, and puttering around cleaning out car and tidying up here and there Dinner - broiled fish, sweet potato fries and salad Stations of the Cross
  5. Good morning! I slept late. Today: Get dd 16 yo up and doing school work. She needs to bake some gluten free dairy free brownies to take with her on her trip to NYC - weekend field trip the county public school theater department is doing. She's going with one of her public school friends she made through the community theatre she's been involved with for years. Prep for Latin study session. Go to Latin study session and study with kids for certamen competition this Saturday Home again Don't know what else. Dinner at Cava Grille - get dd to her friend's house. She's sleeping there over night since they have to leave at 4 a.m. and friend's parents are chaperones for trip. I'd really like to deep clean my house at some point. LOL Don't have the energy but it is getting to me (even me, the one who doesn't see clutter and dirt until it gets extreme!).
  6. Good morning! It's supposed to go up to the mid 70s today! Woot! And our basement is finally finished being repair (except for some of the carpet but that won't happen for another week or so) I woke up at 4 with a migraine and have been up ever since, but a couple of cups of coffee seems to have done the trick. To do: Mass tidy up take ds to class and back again nap!!!! dd to voice lesson? She woke up yesterday with a sore throat. So I don't know about that. Prep for Latin study session tomorrow Walk somewhere Dinner - spaghetti dd to rehearsal? Go to new scripture study tonight
  7. Good morning! The floor guys are due here in a half hour. We'll see if they come. They were supposed to be here at 8:30 yesterday morning, didn't show up until almost 1 p.m. and then only stayed for a bit before leaving! Already done: fed pets, prayer, post To do: Dress, breakfast, get 16 yo up. Make phone calls and plan study session for certamen Take 16 yo to math tutor and then to co-op class While waiting for her, shop for dinner and take a walk somewhere - it's supposed to go up to 73 degrees today!!!! maybe nap Make some kind of dinner. Take dd to youth group P/u dd from youth group
  8. Good morning! Woke feeling kinda of anxious and my sciatica is acting up. Already done: fed pets To do: pray, post, do some follow up stuff on co-op classes and certamen clean kitchen put stuff out to the curb for pick up and label Lupus Foundation get ready for floor guys for the basement repair from flood Make some kind of breakfast Dh has been complaining about our delapidated couch in our family room for a couple years now. In the flurry of spending on our flood he's decided we need to go to a Presidents' Day sale and buy a new couch. Get 19 to community college class and back again. Read the Odyssey with 16 yo Prepare some kind dinner Babysit 2 yo while his mom is at class
  9. I did this last year! And afterwards I started a Catholics for Zero Waste group on facebook! So if anyone is interested in trying to find ways to reduce the amount of trash they create and happen to be Catholic (we also have a couple of Orthodox folks too!) go on over the facebook! I confess I didn't read the article thoroughly. Do they mean single use disposable plastic? Because that's the biggest issue right now. There are some great resources for figuring out how to get around all the typical plastic stuff that we deal with in our daily lives without even thinking about it. You can check out you tube videos too. Beth Terry's Plastic Free is a fantastic resource. As is Bea Johnson's Zero Waste Home. We just had a speaker at our parish today talking about zero waste and the Catholic faith. It is inspired by Pope Francis' Laudato Si encyclical.
  10. I took a walk at a local nature center park last Tuesday. I thought I'd only walk for about 20 minutes but I got lost, wandered around trying to find my way out, came out on the opposite side of the park and then couldn't find my car! Wound up spend about 50 minutes running up and down hills and was late picking my dd up from her homeschool co-op. It was cold and raw and some places were muddy and some a bit icy but I saw a pileated woodpecker! So it was worth it. Sorry I did not get a good shot of the bird. It was way up high in a tree. I think I might walk on the bike path this week.
  11. I finished another Georgette Heyer reread: A Civil Contract. It is different from most of her regency romances. I quite like its quietness. Still chugging through Apologia Pro Vita Sua and The Brothers Karamazov. For that latter, that family is CRAZY! I'm kind of in fear that something dreadful will change Alyosha? Don't tell me! Felt like reading something socialist because we've been studying Marx and socialism in European history so I picked out a book that has been on my imaginary to be read list: The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell. It's all about the horrible working conditions in the North of England back in the late 1930s/early 40s. The preface was a hoot because it was written by a guy who ran the Left Book Club - a bunch of socialists that didn't care for the way Orwell, a socialist himself, talked about how socialists were so annoying. LOL. Also started reading Rethinking School by Susan Wise Bauer - might hold off on this until the summer though. For the past couple of summers we've done a group read on a facebook group for homeschoolers and this one might be a good one for that. Still chugging through The Odyssey with 16 yo dd.
  12. Next year will be my last year of homeschooling! My youngest will be in 12th grade. It's the end of an era for me and I'm trying to prepare myself. She was pretty independent and she basically unschooled with a little bit of structure from a co-op she wanted to attend until about 7th grade. 8th grade was almost completely unschooled but she started formal high school studies with gusto because she wants to study musical theater in college, so she's very oriented to achieving that goal. However, she was waylaid by Hashimoto's thyroiditis this year. I realize she was starting to struggle a bit all of her 10th grade but it got really bad in May and continued all summer. Finally she got a diagnosis in August and we are still trying to get her meds right. It's been a hard year for her. My usually busy, energetic, in love with life daughter turned into a depressed, lethargic, emotional wreck. She is doing slightly better but still not up to normal. They just upped her synthroid. Hopefully, she's on the road to feeling normal though. We are banking on that! So, plans for next year: Math - finish up Saxon Algebra II and do the 1st 3rd of Advanced math (that will give her credit for Alg I, II and Geometry) This year has been really super slow getting through math, which was always her weakest subject. Her brain fog really hit hard in being able to process math. Science - she wants to take Physics at the local high school co-op. 4 out of 5 of my kids have taken this class from a local homeschool mom who was an engineering professor at Lehigh University before she became a homeschooling mom. Elective - Psychology - Dd has become super interested in psychology because of her own depression. She watches youtube videos on psych a lot. We thought there was a local high school class offered but it doesn't look like that will work for us timing and location-wise. So she might do Oak Meadow's AP Psychology. Or we might use Sonlight's plans. Still figuring this one out. Humanities - history/religion/literature/writing - My very last time planning and implementing a course for my teen! History - Didache History of the Church - This is a Catholic textbook which is really well written. I will probably supplement it with documentaries, etc. to sort of round it out into more of a world history. World Literature - I'm trying to compile a list of shorter works (novellas, essays, plays, poetry) to both trace the arc of history the history textbook follows as well as trying to incorporate works from many different countries and continents. I'm going to have her write a senior paper on a country and work we didn't cover. We are hoping this summer, she gets her driver's license. She wants to take a dance class and I'd love for her to drive herself back and forth! Also this summer she needs to take a SAT prep course. She'll continue voice lessons and she has to do a senior recital at the end of the year which the teacher makes a huge deal. This is good though because she needs to audition for musical theater departments. She also is hoping to be in the local community theater's production of Little Shop of Horrors next year.
  13. It's so nice not to have the repair/painter guys coming at 8. Ever since the flood that's been the story! And it snowed out! First real snow fall that actually covers the grass! Today: putter around the house doing some light housekeeping take ds to work (they scheduled him on Sun. a.m. shift) at some point shower breakfast - sausage, eggs, donuts dh and I are going to sort through more flood stuff in basement for charity pick up tomorrow morning Talk at my church on zero waste - gotta go early to help set up Home again - maybe help dh more on the clean up in basement I have no idea what's for dinner - take out?? Maybe I'll stop at the store on the way home from the church talk Mass at 7 Have a good Sunday, everybody!
  14. We get that the guys needed a bath and it was an act of hospitality to offer one, but to have the young girls, even daughters of the hosts of the palace actually bath the visiting men? Were the men naked I wonder? It just seems a tad creepy to our modern sensibilities! LOL.
  15. Reading the Odyssey with 16 yo and she wants to know exactly what was going on with the young girls bathing the men who arrive at the palaces. Does anyone know exactly how all the bathing and anointing happened?
  16. Today will be crazy. At least in the morning. Painters will be here by 8. Need to run out to get something for breakfast and toilet paper (dangerously low!0 Need to take dd and ds to respective obligations this morning but not sure what time to leave 8:15 or 8:30??) Home again - eventually Lesson planning Literature with dd Some housework? What to have tor dinner?
  17. Congrats on your new canine baby, Jean! I forgot to post yesterday. It was hectic! Already done: prayer, fed pets, posted on facebook group To do: Mass Get ds to class Get dd to math tutor p/u ds from class p/u dd from tutor at some point pick up house guest and child from metro (they are going to see a special kids' show today) deal with painters and stuff read Odyssey with dd Laundry Try to get a walk in at some point Figure out dinner - probably salmon cakes, fried potatoes and salad
  18. Good morning! Already done: prayer, fed pets (moving them to raw diet - makes things more complicated!), gave dh a little valentine's gift of beard oil, let in the painters who are drywalling and painting our basement, went to Ash Wed mass. To do: Fasting today Take ds to class p/u ds from class plan for co-op classes take dd to voice lesson make some kind of meatless light dinner (eggs and potatoes maybe?) Take dd to her musical rehearsal - she's in Bye Bye Birdie p/u dd from rehearsal (hoping someone else will do this!)
  19. Already done: prayer, fed pets, hand washed most of the dishes (didn't get to a couple pots and pans), remembered to get chicken out of freezer, made grain free banana pancakes for Mardi Gras To do: Shower laundry plan co-op classes send out email take dd to math tutor Do a bit of grocery shopping p/u dd take ds to work cook dinner take dd to youth group
  20. Good morning on this grey and wet Monday morning! Already done: Prayer Got 3 boxes of old vhs, cd and dvds out to be picked up by the National Children's Center. The flood in the basement is forcing us to clean out our hoard of old media! To do: Shower sign up for certamen Getting our basement tested today to see if it is mold free Provide meals that conform to crazy anti-inflammatory diet Take 19 yo to community college Take 16 to dietitian appt make gf rice Krispie treats to take to AHG meeting (which I thought we had last week but didn't!) Leave AHG meeting early to take 16 to her community theater rehearsal. Figure out how she will get home. Babysit little 2 yo
  21. I finished Sylvester by Georgette Heyer (a re-read) and now I am reread a Civil Contract also by her. If any of you Heyer ladies are on facebook there is a wonderful international group of Heyer lovers there. I think it is called The Georgette Heyer Appreciation Group, if you are interested. Maybe some of you are already there! Still working through Brothers Karamazov. I love the main reader at librivox, Sarah Bean. She is quite good. I listened mostly at the beginning of the week but haven't had a chance to listen in the last couple of days. Also, still pecking away at The Odyssey with my 16 yo. And still reading Apologia Pro Vita Sua. Right after I made the commend that Newman was living in a bubble in the early 1800s and never seemed to mention stuff like Napoleon and all the revolutions going on, he did mention them. So now I feel like there is more context for me to grasp on to. So I am just nibbling away at my reads, except for the lighter stuff, like Heyer.
  22. C. P. Snow!!! I haven't read him (her?) but i remember my dad really liked that author. Violet Crown, what book would you recommend starting with if one wanted to read a Snow book?
  23. I am determined to stay off the internet a lot today. I just sucked into things and then too much goes undone and it winds up depressing me a bit! So today: Clean the ktichen Go to church Come home and make breakfast for everyone Pick up 19 yo from airport (maybe dh will do this) I think dh wants to work on something this afternoon - we were in a big project to clean through all our papers and filing cabinets when the flood happened. But whatever I know he had something lined up to do. Figure out something for dinner Take dd to her workcamp meeting Read lit with dd
  24. The flood remediation guy came and took the huge fan out of the kitchen. Now I can use my stove again! Can't wait til we can put the fridge back in its place instead of in the middle of the room! Put a load of laundry away Grocery shopping Made breakfast To do: Figure out something for dinner Feeling lazy and gloomy so maybe just curl up in bed with a book for a good part of the day!
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