ummm yeah so TIME FLIES

I am in shock, September 2012 is almost gone!!! I feel like August was torn from the calendar and thrown away, I WANT MY MONTH BACK!!! Ah well as I always say, Time Flies. It just seems to have flown a bit faster than normal.

My Karen left for Madagascar, Sarah started her Junior year, Jay began 8th grade, and Peter 5th..... Nathan I pulled from pre-school. With a new program and teachers I just can't see leaving him there. He also has started speech two times a week. Somewhat bogus, it the stuff he does with some of the preschool lessons I do with him. I'm not satisfied and am ready to stop wasting my time, energy, and money on that program.

Sarah is at Veritas once again being homeschooled....well I don't really say she is homeschooled, it's more like classes. Similar to a college setting.

Jay is attending Classical Conversations Challenge A, and his teacher is relaxed about things that in other Classical Conversations I felt were too intense. I am enjoying what I am seeing so far. He's on the soccer team. He also still attends writing workshop and other classes at the Trinity School, when he can on Monday. Now that soccer is almost over, we will focus a bit more on his creative stories. He's taking Christian Film and two hours of Bible Quizzing for co-op. He's also in Boy Scouts and Bible Quizzing is complicating his hiking schedule (ahem or his Dad's hiking schedule.)

Peter is back in the Foundations program for Classical Conversations. He attends classes on Monday and Wednesday with Trinity. His last year as a Cub Scout, he'll be a Boy Scout in 2013. He is doing well enough, but there is room for improvement.

Nathan is busy with speech. He goes two times a week. I pulled him out of preschool, and speech is just playing, I don't feel it is anything he couldn't get at home.

School Started August First

I have to say something, I CAN'T STAND SCHOOL STARTING IN AUGUST!!! Okay there it is, and if you know me well I say it every year, but really this year is the worst because we started AUGUST 1ST. Has the Georgia Board of Education totally lost their marbles. Or have I been here so long that I don't notice the rest of the United States is turning toward this also. I have a tip, DON'T DO IT!!!

It just is too soon, there is enough wind down before you wind back up as a teacher, I love September in the North, I don't know about the south because, I don't get to enjoy the newness of school anymore, it's just kinda slammed into me.

So there is my vent, as I begin one class today, Bible. That's it, and it's only because Bible Quizzing begins.

Is it REALLY that TIME again??

Yes, it is and every year I am shocked, because I live in the south, this year it once again comes as no surprise but I still have NOT adjusted. School begins AUGUST 1ST. Gone are the days of looking forward to this month. Sigh and YUCK, so not wanting it to be the time, but alas there is not denying it, I must prepare.

First thing I must do is clean out my daughter's room, she has until August 1st but it isn't getting done, so I will start with the desk. And get back to this post later.

When Worlds Collide and Transport Time

Was it really 16 plus years ago that I was there, in my mind it was yesterday. My 16 year old daughter took me on an adventure today. In it we were to get clothes, but it began with Sonic, a tipped over milkshake and well, just another day.

The first house we went to, she went inside and I remained in the van. (She knew the woman she was purchasing clothes from.) I remember to do list and one thing I needed to do was call an old friend, A GRANDMA!!! REALLY I enjoyed my conversation and we plan on having a reunion for our little group. My daughter was the baby I left, Ft. Riley with, in utero, many of these people haven't met her. My friend was telling me about her new Grandson and I just am at wonder as I watch my friends turn this page in life. I got off the phone and my daughter and I spoke about her latest bargain finds and she continued to ask about my friends from Ft. Riley. I smiled as she said, You are the youngest. Of course I had to get off the phone to GPS our 2nd shop.

Our adventure continued as we stopped at a house for sale, this time she wanted me with her as she didn't know the woman selling her clothes. We went in and began shopping and looking at her other items online. We continued talking and then her husband came in and we continued to talk, and yep, it is a small world. They were moving, Airforce to FT. RILEY, KANSAS!!! Wow, small world, Sarah was able to keep up somewhat and remember from photos the first place I told them to visit a town that was like Little Sweden....where to live, first choice on base, but they would only get 800 square feet. um check it out before you say no....and JUNCTION CITY..um well it isn't that bad, but ummm yeah, I'd pick Manhattan before JC. First choice on base.

They brought the memories back, many of which I didn't have time to share but my mind went to. The long drive on base from Manhattan, oh LOL swerving to miss one raccoon and hitting two..I know sounds morbid, and at the time it was but now it's kinda funny. Living on top of the hill in the pathetic 2nd LT. housing. Long walks, long talks, friends that were doing the same thing we were, living at Ft. Riley, Kansas.

He's my son

Family

Family, long since learned about, but as I went to a family reunion this past weekend. I smiled, I cried, I laughed, and I remembered as I watched and listened to children play. "Where did Grandma and Grampa come from?" "The Airport, I just picked them up." It wasn't the answer I was really wanting but it is what I remember. I eventually figured it out, that these were the people who had my Dad, and he grew up with, the mystery of life from the eyes of a child, we were all children once and had our own thoughts as to family. For me figuring it out was a process.