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Saturday, January 24, 2009

My big girl!

I stayed up late last night working on homeschool stuff and was hoping I would get to sleep in. Jim woke me up at 5:45 because he couldn't find his car keys. I went back to sleep after he left and didn't wake up until 9:50! I heard the TV on downstairs and thought Jim had come home early from work. I got downstairs and Jordie had the TV on her cartoons, was playing a game on the computer, had let Jesse out of his kennel (which she normally never does) and had eatten breakfast! Normally she would wake me up and whine about being hungry, want me to turn the TV on for her (it's cable so she has to turn the TV and the cable box on) and find a cartoon channel. She knows how to turn the computer on herself but I was surprised that she had done it. I asked her what she ate for breakfast and she said the rest of her oranges. Now granted that was about 3/4 of a can of mandarin oranges so she will probably be pooping all day but the point is she had done all of this on her own, without waking me up and whining. I praised her profusely and am hoping she will continue to be more independant now.

We had a lazy moring and now it's after 12 and I told her we need to get moving and get the house cleaned up. After the cleaning is done we are going to work on our map of Alaska. We are doing a homeschool project of following the Iditarod this year. There's a whole email group/website set up for this. We are really looking forward to it.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

She' her fathers' daughter huh?

Gigi Lynn said...

Ha -- I must say that I'd never even heard of the Iditarod until the last few months. 45 years without ever knowing anything about it, and I still don't know much. So we probably won't be doing a unit study on that one! :)

Anonymous said...

Yes she is growing up and so glad to have you all closer.Gramma Diane

Anonymous said...

i'm alone again and i'm thinking about
what i shouldn't think about again
i'm trapped i'm dizzy
spinning and spiralling down
now i'm in love again
and it feels so good
it feels like nothing ever felt before
its a song i wrote it about you
i love you
see i told you i was good
but this is nothing like i thought it would be
i'm scared all the time
i'm afraid i'm gonna hurt you
i've gotta pay somehow
but it couldn't happen to me now
runaway with, my lover, runaway with me
i wanna let the world go
i wanna buy you a ring
maybe i'll make it myself
do you like rubies and diamonds and emeralds and gold and silver
i wanna build you a mansion
maybe we'll live in a castle with servants and a pool
what a sorry song
what a stupid idea
i write the songs that make the
whole world think about absolutely nothing
i believe, i dont believe, i dont think believe
its strong enough, its bandwagon jargon
its hip, just do it, but dont do it half way
if you put down your loaded gun
put down your bow and arrow too
and i wanna be in 5th grade again
i wanna worry about poison ivy
i wanna worry about getting beat up after school
i wanna send you a note
i wanna buy you a ring
maybe i'll make it myself
do you like rubies and diamonds and emeralds and gold and silver
i wanna build you a mansion
maybe we'll live in a castle with servants and a pool
and we wont have to think about dying
cuz dying wont exist anymore
and we'll be able to fly
and we wont let anyone use the pool
i wanna buy you a ring
maybe i'll make it myself
i wanna build you a mansion
maybe we'll live in a castle with servants and a pool

Love You,

Jim