WRAD Memories

I realized that even though I said I was going away camping with the kids, I never actually got around to posting anything about it- or some of the other adventures that we've had this summer. And then I was waiting on some pictures of the dog- so I STILL didn't post this. Well, hopefully it's better late than never, lol! This summer didn't turn out like I'd originally hoped because of the dog, but I think on the whole it wasn't too bad (I can't believe it's over already, though. It went by so fast!). We started our summer holidays a bit early because mentally I was just done. That, and we got our dog- which we eventually named 'Choco'. It's a shortened form of chocolate, which the kids thought was ironic since too much chocolate can kill a dog- but he's varying shades of brown, so I thought it suited him. And after three weeks of having him, he needed a name already. Anyone who knows anything about dogs knows that Airedales are N...

Tonight I NEED to write. It's been a LONG summer so far and for no reason really, I felt like the past few days have just about put me over the edge. So I need to write and find the good in this, because if I don't I keep dwelling on the bad. Today started with an interesting dream. In it, I was going to be driving my friend's car- but I realized the back passenger door was open and thought 'I need to close it before I go'. For some reason I didn't- and only discovered that when I got to my destination. I got out to check to see if there was any damage and both the doors on that side were massively scraped up. I felt sick to my stomach over it. There was no way to hide the damage and no way I could pretend it never happened. In some ways, it's a lot like life. You see something that you KNOW you really need to do. Unfortunately, life distracts you and it doesn't get done (or the other way- you don't stop doing things you know you shouldn...

By the time I get to the end of a semester and get the portfolio done, I need a break (or so I tell myself). This means that we usually loose a bit of momentum and have to get back into the grove of things. Unfortunately, I felt like I was still trying to find that groove again for most of the rest of the year. In term two, I also don't worry about how much we're getting done until at least February- when I need to start thinking about getting my portfolios together for the second semester. Then I begin to slightly panic. An interesting thing that happened this semester was finally getting Jeremiah in for testing for some possible learning issues. There never really was one glaring thing that made me go, 'he's got problems that we need to deal with'. It was more of a few dozen little things over the years that made me stop and go 'hm, that's odd, isn't it- do you think it might be something bigger or is it just a bad attitude that needs to be ove...