I am no April Fool....I didn't want another month to go by without linking up with
Farley at
Oh Boy Fourth Grade. The first of each month is my favorite for this very reason.
I am trying to do this while I am in the car travelling to Salt
Lake for the first stop on our “Grand Circle” tour. There are miles and miles of empty desert
between here and our destination. I
thought…Hubby is
driving, I can be working on my Currently (which I LOVE by the way). Then when I get to my daughters house I can
be already to post and link up. Two
problems….it is
bouncier than I thought and trying to work a mouse leads to all sorts of craziness. Second without internet access I cannot get
to the blogger template. So I got my
currently ready and now I am composing in word.
I’ve never done that before. We
will see how this works out. I am also
using a great big plain font. I figure I
can change the size and look when I get to my daughter’s. (see...much better already)
So where am I going? Crazy…wanta come? Sorry, just had to throw that in there. I am going to see two of my children and
their families. They could not come over
for Easter dinner like these two, so we are going to them.
I am old enough (wait….I don’t think of myself as that old) and lucky enough
to have 10 grand children. Six live
close, and four live close enough we can easily make a quick trip to see
them. If we want to see them one after
the other we do a grand circle. Starting
at one end and going from house to house and ending up back home. We average about 300 miles on each leg of the
“tour”.
I have a list a mile long of things I wanted to do….clean out my closet, muck out the
spare bedroom/office, redo my school library (part of the office redo) and get it
more organized. I need desperately to
work on my hording tendencies….but
those will all still be there, the chance to visit family may not. My husband took the week off because he
wanted to spend the time with me and all those projects don’t really involve
him. So I will save them for another day
(I just must have the self discipline to follow through and
get them done)
Sometimes I wish I could be like Jonathon Livingston Seagull and be
transported just by thinking and I am there.
The road is long…and empty, lots
of sagebrush and mountains, but no trees.
Today I am also listening to it rain.
I love the sound of rain on the windshield and when we stop, the smell
of sagebrush after a rain. I don’t like
that this rain is turning into snow. I
can see the line where it changes on these mountains across the valley and some
of those drops on my windshield are not raindrops…but gobs of snow! I am ready for warm! Maybe we should have headed south.
I finished up my testing last week, but I really haven’t looked at
any of it. The nice thing? I have all week to do just that. After the kids go to bed, and I have some
down time to myself, I can get all that I did organized and entered in to
powerschool. Yay! for the internet. I don’t have to be at school to do that. Then Monday morning our wonderful secretaries
print off the report cards and I add some samples of student work and I think I
am ready for conferences! Good thing
because I am trying to get my conferences done a day early (another family
visit and wedding is happening).
My advice…..is for
myself. It it my one word to remind me
of what I need to be doing. I need to
simplify. I need to let go of things I
might need….and just in
case. I need to give away things to
someone who can use them right now. I
need to remember to ask myself what is the worse thing that could happen if I
lose this? Simplify!
