Remember to tell the physical therapist that Paddy is very allergic to latex before he tapes him. Do this even if you are certain that you have written it on each and every piece of paper required to initiate treatment.
Poor Paddy.
This will forever be "The Summer of the Shoulder."
Latex-free athletic tape (by the case) and shoulder braces available here.
I've really enjoyed The Simple Woman's Daybook--be sure to visit Peggy for the latest entries.
The refrigerator guy will
get back me. August 5th. Sears called. They'll let us know when they can get here to fix the refrigerator. The part is on backorder. No problem. It's only been a month...
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Give us truly holy priests who, inflamed with the fire of Your divine love, seek nothing but Your greater glory and the salvation of our souls.
And you, Mary, good Mother of priests, protect all priests in the dangers of their holy vocation and, with the loving hand of a Mother, also lead back to the Good Shepherd those poor priests who have become unfaithful to their exalted vocation and have gone astray.
Amen (more prayers for priests here)
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One of my favorite things
...pillow talk.
"Why do you have a monitor and a laptop on your desk?" and "I thought you had a Mac. That screen's a Dell."
Details. Details.:-)
Last year, we bought Michael a reconditioned MacBook before he left for school. At Christmas, the screen burned out. It's outrageously expensive to fix. So, he took an old monitor and hooked it up to his Mac. That was a Dell monitor. Around that time, I grew very tired of sharing a computer with all my kids and I began saving pennies to buy myself my very own computer. I've never had my very own computer...
Then, Lightning Struck. And it zapped our Dell desktop (our second Dell to be zapped). So, we needed a new family computer.That's a computer shared by everyone else in the house. It was becoming nearly impossible to ration time on it, particularly since the bigger boys are taking writign-intensive courses this fall, too. And Michael was going to travel extensively this summer and in the fall, all while attending college. He needed a laptop that functioned like a laptop. So, my pennies went to a new family Mac-mini withthe lightning-struck monitor (the monitor is fine). And some more (many more) pennies went to a new laptop for Michael. The old lightning-struck Dell can still do word processing; it just has no online access and other limited fucntioning, so as soon as I retrieve a monitor from my father, that will fucntion nicely for paper-writing. And I set myself up with the Mac-Dell hybrid on an old desk my aunt gave me. Admittedly, I am visual enough that the necessary tangle of cords drives me nuts, but all in all, I am pretty thrilled to finally have a 'puter all my own (except for when I share it with everyone else;-). The bonus is that it acts like a Mac.
Hope wrote yesterday with several questions:
First of all, where did you find your nice, large blackboard?
I'm guessing it is Katherine's. I don't have a blackboard. Sorry:-).
Second question, what is the table top made of that the
children are playing the Rainbow Gem Trading game on (it looks like little
stickers)?
I bought the table unfinished at Ikea. I painted it and then I stenciled the top in a patchwork pattern. Honestly, I don't reccomend doing that. It's darling, but it's a little bumpy for writing and I admit to cringing now and then when stray crayon and pencil marks add their own charm.
Lastly, I have a far more complex question. I have been printing out everything to put in a binder and I am having a real hard time figuring out where to begin and the order of things. I can find lessons 3, 4 and 5, but when I printed out what looked like earlier info I ended up printing out several 20-30 page long documents some of which had a lot of info that overlapped and one of which looked like it went in backwards order. Since I am new to this I know the problem is me, but I was wondering if you could give me any lesson ordering tips for this. There is so much great info there that I want to make sure not to miss anything.
This is a complex question. It's also a frequently asked question. Any time you click on an archive, you are going to see the most current post first. That means, the posts will be backwards in terms of how to present them. It's a very annoying way to have to read and to cut and paste. We know that and we're working on a great solution. As we've expanded lessons and themes, the blog format has gotten unwieldy. Hang in there! Cindy is creating a webpage interface that will make it all much more streamlined.You'll be able to see the lessons listed in order and click on one lesson at a time. She's away from her computer just now, helping a friend with a new baby, but we'll have a much more user-friendly format for you in the near future. For the math in particular, we've already begun breaking those long lessons into smaller chunks by topic. I think that will make it more intuitive. It's taking us some time but it will be easier to understand and easier to navigate.
This may be on your site somewhere, but I would also be interested to see a typical day for you as I am trying to figure out how waldorf (ish) homeschooling would work with a 5 year old and a 7 year old.
I have some typical days from last year up at Faithful Over Little Things. I've been playing with some cool Mac features and plan to renew my journaling at Little Things and upload our daily lists, once we get around to settling into a school rhythm, but there are a few days there from last year. There are rough drafts of this year's days to download here. Marisa has some days from last year at her notes blog. Paula has her days for this fall sketched out here. Colleen has planning thoughts here. Keep your eyes on the Serendipity-do-dah blogroll on the lefthand sidebar for other examples of Serendipitous days.
While I appreciate the beauty, the materials and some of the methods of Waldorf education, I am not a follower of Rudolf Steiner, his educational philosophy, or his religion. I am a practicing Catholic who is very clear in teaching the faith to her children. Please see this post for any further explanation of incorporating methods or materials that might also appear in Waldorf schools into your home. Take inspiration from what is good and what in in harmony with the true faith and leave the rest. If you can't discern, then leave it all alone.
I'm Elizabeth. I'm a happy wife and the mother of nine children. I grab grace with both hands and write to encourage myself and others to seize and nurture the joy of every day. I blog here with my daughter, Mary Beth, a wholehearted young lady on the brink of adulthood.
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