Tuesday, March 08, 2005

catching up

WOW! What is that old saying? When it rains it pours.... That is how the month of February felt to me. It started off with Josh being sick with a bad cold. Then his older brother had two seizures within 4 hours and we ended up at the emergency room only to have him come down with strep throat and end up back in the emergency room again 2 days later. A week later it was the sleep deprivation EEG and a few days after that the appt. with the neurologist. Then there was Josh's President's Day ice hockey tournament here in Las Vegas to be followed by another tournament in Fargo, ND 4 days later. It is now March and as things have begun to settle down along comes Spring in the way of high 70's and lots of sunshine.

I worry as I look at my planner and there are days empty of planning etc. AND then I begin thinking, "But wait..." What about the audio book, Al Capone Does My Shirts, that we so enjoyed listening to and reminisced about our trip to San Fransicsco at the same time. It prompted much discussion on autism since this is a major part of the book... AND the study we did of Jacob Lawrence the painter and Langston Hughes the poet for Black History month. Josh had such a great time painting on a piece of cardboard box just like Lawrence did when he was young. It has inspired him to make MANY paintings since then all of his own initiative. AND We have been enjoying Tuesday teatime and reading poetry and picture books along with our all-time favorites, Mr Putter and Tabby books by Cynthia Rylant. We are both too old for those some may say but hey I think NOT. They always bring a smile to both our faces and isn't that a good enough reason to keep reading such great books. AND We have been finishing our study of fractions and will soon move on. AND We are still enjoying The Shakespeare Stealer by Gary Blackwood and did a review of Hamlet since that is the play talked about in the book. AND we did a month of working on the writing process with Julie's Bravewriting lifestyle in which he wrote a really nice piece on ice hockey (of course). I have only scratched the surface really of things we did during this month that I so worried about because our formal study time got thrown off course. It seems we journeyed on even in the midst of storms.

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