Weekly Reads and Finds

Are any of your kids super dramatic about relatively small things? Both of mine are. They get it from their dad. They hate needles as all kids do, and we went to get our flu shots yesterday.

Merle was so nervous she was sweating profusely which made it difficult to get her arm out of her sweatshirt to get the shot.

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Weekly Reads and Finds

I received the coat that I was talking about last week. I had high hopes for it, but once again I was disappointed.

First off it was huge. I thought I might need to size down but the smaller size was sold out at that time so I went with my regular size.

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Weekly Reads and Finds

I have been ranking our back to school weeks on a scale of 1-10, hoping for a gradual improvement each week as week found our groove again.

Have we ever had a groove though?

Wishful thinking perhaps?

This week I would give academics 4/10.

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Weekly Reads and Finds

Hear ye, hear ye, our week was kind of shitty again. Seriously though. getting back onto this homeschool groove is TOUGH. It’s never been this tough before.

And now I just read that Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away today and it’s like a kick in the teeth.

Rest in power.

Your fight will be carried on.

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Weekly Reads and Finds

Tis the season for finding bags of mini Snickers in the stores. I need to dial back the Halloween candy because we still have almost two months to go.

If the amount of chocolate I am consuming right now indicates my behaviour until Halloween, it doesn’t bode well for me :/

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Weekly Reads and Finds

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The last hurrah of summer. What a crazy past 6 months. How are spending this long weekend (if it is a long one where you are)? I’m probably going to be printing off curriculum pages to get everything ready for school next week.

I’m feeling ill prepared.

But I guess I feel this way every year.

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