Odds and Ends

~thank you anonymous B. from Florida.  What a kind way to start the day.  (it posted back on the entry you were reading at the time.)  Family is truly awesome!


~to J.- Some of our kiddos on are year-round school, some are on traditional, and one set is home schooled.  The tracks actually belong to the year-round school.  The reason why they do this is because they can serve 25 % more kids than traditional.  Everyone has most of July off.  Then every 3 weeks one of the tracks go off (and another comes on)....so three "tracks" are always going.  They tell you at the first of the year what track you are on (ours call them A, B, C or D track) with the schedule.  In my daughter's area, it is high growth and they can't build schools fast enough so this helps.  They only do this here for elementary.  When my last two were in elementary, they were on year-round.  I loved it.  While the older kids were in school, I could have more one on one with the younger kids.  We took ski lessons and did fun things.  However, year-round plays havoc with working mothers which I wasn't sensitive to at the time.  Working mothers rely on high school kids to help watch kids during the summer vacation and when your kids are off track 3 weeks in January (like Brandi's now)- that makes it a little difficult.  Thank goodness she has wonderful friends...and, of yes, kiddo grammies.  Does that help?  Make sense?  Each school method has its pluses and minuses.


~the answer is The Hunger Games.  3 books in about 1 1/2 weeks!  Whew!  I am exhausted from getting shot at and starved and blown up by pods.  It was like being in a video game (and a violent one at that.) (hard to believe a girl wrote that!)  Other than the violence, I enjoyed the books.  Obviously.  But now I'm taking a break from fiction.  For awhile.  I just don't have discipline to stop. (and I was definitely on Team Bread Boy.)


~Butters started yesterday.  Anyone in?  (for those who don't understand me and my metaphors, butters means dieting.  I keep track of all the pounds of butter that I lose.  To me it is a clearer image.  Cousin Sharon and I are going to rally each other on.  If anyone else wants to participate, I'll post butters on Tuesday mornings.)  Sometimes it is good to have a butter buddy.

"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them." -Denis Waitley