WOW!!! The Calvert ciriculum I ordered is just right for us. We sailed through. ZQ was a pleasant and willing student (for a change) and seemed to actually LIKE it! We did some of our own extra work at the end but a great base for us.
I no longer have any fears about how well he will be doing. He is more than caught up to the other kids. Infact BQ who was telling me we were failing and needed to get in an outside tutor now says that perhaps we overshot and now he will be too bored in school. I think that will be great though. After a year of struggling I think it will boost his confidence to have done it before. I am really thrilled. I can’t believe I can actually teach my boy!! Least I know I will be the least patient teacher he will get! After me all the others will seem like saints (Actually if the cirriculum keeps working for us like this I may not be so awful)
I am so very tired. The kids keep coming in to my bed. AQ kicking me all night and EQ pushing me out the bed. I have really had enough. I think it is time to lock my door!! I am tired of getting up feeling as bad as I did when I laid down. I think I am going to reward EQ with late night TV with Dad if he cuts it out. I will try anything at this point.
We are meant to be going to a petting zoo this morning, EQ, my “teenager”, is not even up yet. 930am. It won’t surprise me if I don’t see him till 10! Who ever heard of a 3 year old sleeping that late! I guess I will go rouse him and get moving. The house is a wreak and we have company ….. (Bruce and Chuck are staying)

Almost forgot to mention, we cycled all weekend. Loantaka trails on Saturday and The Patriots Path in Black River Wildlife management park on Sunday. BQ and EQ quit on Sunday about half way through as poor EQ was too tired. ZQ and I went to the end (with AQ in the trailer). A great ride. We got to the end though and realised we had biked way farther than we had meant to. We rode aprox 20 miles over the weekend. Thats a lot for a little guy! You should see ZQs thighs! He actually has some now! He is such a great biker. AQ loves her little trailer and sat back there singing and sticking stickers and reading books. The trailer is pretty heavy!! Especially on Sat when EQ wore out and I put him and his bike in it with AQ!! I could barely move! Great workout though.
I took my camera in yesterday. I am now without camera. I feel like I have lost part of myself somehow!! lol. I had no idea how attached to that silly thing I had become! I can’t believe they took it back. FULL REFUND. I shot for 3 years!! That is just AWESOME! It did have a dead spot on the CCD but I didn’t do anything about it for 3 years, feel just a tad guilty about that. I would happily have accepted a discounted return but hey that was their return policy. So I put in an order this morning for 2 camera’s one for Mum and one for me. I will very soon be the proud owner of a FULL FRAME CCD!!!!!!!!!! I AM SOOOOOOOO STOAKED!!! You know it is pretty bad when you call to ask about prices and the salesman goes “Hey Shelly how are you?”. That might mean I give them a little too much business! lol. I just had a bunch of enlargements printed to refresh the frames I had up, I tried their new printing paper and I must say I love it. I have finally put BQs firemen pic in a mat (no this is not a skill I can perfect, from now on BQ will be the mat cutter in our family, I suck at it! But if you look at it from a distance you will never know).
I have been hacking and slashing in my photo storage. Going through the years of the point and shoot camera is kind of depressing! Even the good ones suck. lol. I don’t think I ever deleted anything just downloaded and left. So the trash box is getting some use. BQ walked by at one point and said “NOOO!!!!!!! Don’t delete that.” There were 5 pics of almost the same shot and all out of focus and yuck. I kept 2 tossed 3. He was all upset! Funny as he is the one that has been begging me for years to start tossing some of the bad ones as I am using too much storage. He is more sentimental than he likes to let on.
OK off to get dressed and motivated. Time to get back to getting up early, just can’t make it to appointments otherwise.