honeydew

Things crossed off of my to-do list today: 5

Things still to-do: 35

One of my favorite things

Every morning, the Monkey comes and crawls in bed with us. I love it! He's snuggly and affectionate. Most of the time he falls back to sleep. But, lest this get too saccharine, if he doesn't fall asleep, the snuggles and hugs and kisses are sprinkled liberally with "I am HUNGRY!", "Are you ready to get up?" and "Do you want to talk about something?".

This morning, RJ got up early and headed out to go biking before it got too hot. So the Monkey and I were awake a little bit earlier. He came into bed and we snuggled, and I was thinking about how thankful I am that he still likes to snuggle, and how it's something we've been doing as a family in the mornings ever since he was a baby. (he did sleep with us, but still!)

It's something I was thankful for today.

Dubbin

We're in Eureka Springs. For the fifth year in a row. Actually, that's four years for RJ- he was in Afghanistan.

And the Monkey is so excited. About our motel room. We've got to get him out more often!

Monday in CA

We went wine tasting here...


We played in the ocean here...


We saw giant redwoods here...



Some perspective, they were really tall...




We ate Chinese food here...

RJ took the Child to see Star Wars: The Clone Wars this afternoon.

X said that he liked the light sabers and the fighting the best, and now he's looking in his Star Wars coloring book for characters that he saw in the movie.

I just think it was fun that they got to do something special together. RJ was pretty excited to take the Child to a Star Wars movie.

Also, I kind of enjoyed the few hours alone time that I got!

So I'm going today to turn in our "Notice of Intent to Homeschool". It's a big day!

I filled in all the information yesterday, and it's a little weird to see it in black and white. Especially the back page. The back page has all of our curriculum and our schedule on it. We're going to be doing three hours a day, five days a week, for 36 weeks, over a 9 month term. Wow!

So, hopefully, I'll be able to find the right office to take this thing to, and then I won't have to do it again for another year!


P.S.- for anyone who is interested, we're using Saxon math, for grades K and 1, and Christian Light Education's "Learning to Read" for our phonics. (We'll be doing art, science, history and P.E. things, but not as a set curriculum, just sort of as we feel like it. I figure that we can't really do anything else until he learns how to read, so we'll be concentrating the most on that.) The math is really cool, because he'll be learning how to use a calendar, tell time, count money, etc... along with counting, charting, adding, subtracting- all those nifty math skills.

The Pacific Ocean

loved it! We really did go swimming in it. It was cold at first, but then it felt really refreshing. But... I don't have pictures of that.

We went to see the ocean on Friday. This was at Shell Beach.




Eating in downtown San Luis Obispo.


Shell beach at low tide.



We watched the sunset.


R.J. stood very close to the edge of the very steep cliff.

California Dreamin'

We were gone for a week to beautiful, amazing California. Without our child.

And now we're home, we have our boy back with us, we're catching up on laundry and sleep, and I don't want to leave the house. Except that we have no food. So I need to go to the grocery store, but I keep putting it off, because I don't like going grocery shopping. But I'm reveling in being able to snuggle with my baby, and in spending time together as a little family.

RJ's got all the pictures on his camera, so I'll post some as soon as I make time to post from his computer. But for now, I'll tell you...

That we had a good trip. The San Louis Obispo area was beautiful, with wonderful weather, and lots of time spent on the beach or near the ocean. San Francisco was cold and foggy, but filled with good friends, and we got to see/do almost everything we wanted to.