Wednesday, 24 June 2009

• Currently Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books By Azar Nafisi see related

  Up Early

  In general, I'm not an "early dawner", as Alex says.  I had always been a morning person, pre children, but as time has passed I've gotten out of the habit of being up early.  For one thing, by the evening I'm tired and touched out and just need some decompressing time so I zone out in front of a book or television and end up staying up too late.  Now that I think about it, it would actually just be better to go to bed and get up in the morning for that 'alone' time.

  Indiana summer has hit with full force; we've had a string of heat advisories (in between storms--one of our customers was telling me yesterday that he'd read an article about how this summer is going to be the worst for Indiana farmers on record because you just can't get out into the fields because of the rain).  Today it's supposed to crack 100 degrees.  So we're going to be doing our heavy work in the early mornings and in the evenings, leaving the hot part of the day to swim in the pool. 

  Seryozha loves the pool.  In fact, I have a series of photos of him in a kiddie pool that I'm going to enter in a contest...I might try to post them later. 

  Today Anthony is going to rotate the goats', Sylvia's, and Romeo Blue the llama's pasture. 

  Holden has been responding well to www.readinga-z.com .  Next week I'm going to order Right Start Math for him.  The other kids have been plugging along at homeschooling.  Every day they do math, poetry, and literature, then several times a week we throw in history, Latin, grammar, and whatnot.  Homeschooling was so disjointed this past year because of Sergei's birth and other events that we're just all-year-rounding.  Actually that seems a bit disingenuous to say--we're really moving so far away from traditional school scheduling that we're just doing our thing.  I can't even honestly give them a grade level anymore.  When London is reading Poe and Shakespeare for fun--when Alex is asking me to Tivo any special on D-Day and Pearl Harbor--when they know how to get in the beehives to feed the bees and play the fiddle (well, only London) and chant in Latin I'm not going to give them something as...flat...as saying, "He's going into third grade."

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