Here’s the scoop:
1. Have been asked to sing a solo concert for a local lilbrary’s summer concert series!
2. BRAHMS is this weekend and I’m SO EXCITED.
3. Homeschool situation has been resolved.
4. Bought a lot of third grade curriculum and Corey is flying through the math like it’s nothing at all (that’s my boy!).
5. Simon thinks that any time I sit down, it’s “Eesie Time” (nursie time).
1. I’m so excited about this and now I’m trying to figure out what I want to sing. I have a mind to sing Holst’s “Four Songs” since I’ll have a violinist at my disposal (not the best word, I know). Also, I have a fabulous pianist to share the stage with me and he says he may compose something for me since the piece he composed for me last year never happened. Remember that? When he wrote that song for me but the other soprano ended up performing it? Yeah.
2. This weekend’s concert is going to be fun and I really hope it’s worth all the unfun rehearsals we’ve been trudging through, with last night’s being one of the worst. I’ve been fed up with all the diction lessons. Not that we don’t need it, but it’s tedious. All that aside, it’s pretty special to be working with the world’s most prominent choral conductor since the death of Robert Shaw.
3. I’ll talk about this later.
4. Before the advent of number 3, we had already ordered all the third grade curriculum for Corey. Jamie is working the language arts stuff with him and we’ll both be doing the history. I’m in charge of math. We bought Saxon Math and I LOVE IT SO MUCH OH MY GOD. It’s really exactly what I needed. All the lessons are scripted, there are worksheets, reviews, timed fact sheets, flash cards, and Corey is having such a good time doing it. He feels so accomplished already and we’re only on lesson 6! I’m really glad to be a little more organized in our lessons now. Unschooling wasn’t working for Corey, so this is just what we needed for him not to feel so lost during the day.
5. It’s really difficult to sit down even to eat or check my email without Simon crying to be snuggled and nursed. There are moments when I can, but he’d be perfectly happy if I sat down all day long and just let him hold my nipple while he watched T.V. I love him, and I don’t mind the nursing, but the holding isn’t realistic. I’ve been wandering around the house all morning so that he wouldn’t take the nursie cue. Not that he hasn’t asked. I’m not used to nursing a toddler, and such a demanding one at that. If I hadn’t weaned Corey so early, I bet he would have been just like Simon is now.
CONCLUSION!
So because we’re a little more organized around here (not by far–we don’t have a gigantic whiteboard with everyone’s daily schedule broken down into 15-minute time blocks), the house is getting cleaner. And because I can’t sit down without a baby in my lap, I’m not sitting down as much, which means I’m having to find things to do. That also means I can’t knit as much, which makes me sad. I knit after the boys go to bed. So I’ve been doing something new…
Making quilt blocks doesn’t require a lot of sitting, so even though I’m not knitting, I’m still doing something crafty. Plus, I have a lot of fabric from my mom that I can use for this practice quilt. If I find I like doing this, maybe I’ll eventually make a quilt for our bed. A lofty goal, indeed! Like I need another project.
