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After 2 weeks of having a son in the hospital, I'm so glad that he is home!! I have to say that I wasn't crazy about "hospital schooling."
Sadly though, another son is leaving in a few hours for his 3rd deployment. With the Middle East getting even crazier, I'm pretty stressed.
9 days and counting for our daughter's wedding!
We're starting to have some nice fall weather as well. Love it!!
Chris V., the Amazon truck, aka UPS, stops here quite often
as well. 
Angie, I have an idea what your news might be but I haven't seen your parents at Mass for a couple of weeks now so I haven't kept up on AZ news.
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lapazfarm wrote:
We got internet today! yay!
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Say what???....  I can't keep up with your moves, dear!! 
Chris V wrote:
| I had a brilliant idea for one of the walls in our nook. ... patiently awaiting the arrival of some swanky new frames to hang. Prepare to be inspired(!) I told my girls. ... maybe I'll post a picture if it all works out |
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Please do!
Mimip wrote:
| Oh and Mary, I am so jealous of your trip to my mother land. Espana, como te extrano!!! |
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Oh, it was so exciting. I should have done the Wednesday shout out from there the last two weeks but didn't have much interent time at all. At least then I would have had an exciting shout out. It is my motherland too, I guess - at least through my maternal grandmother. She was from the Basque country - that is where we spent most of our time, with side trips to Lourdes and Santiago de Compostela. 
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OK, so it's Friday . . . but late to the party beats missing it altogether.
Our week, in no particular order:
1) As of today, our front porch is finished! Well, effectively, anyway -- I notice that the screen door still needs a final coat of white paint. But the porch is screened, and I'm sitting on it! Yes!
2)8-year-old daughter started Irish dance on Wednesday. The friend of ours who teaches this very non-competitive class -- they perform for nursing homes and in cultural fairs and with local Celtic bands -- is also our parish DRE, and she is the most wonderful person ever . . . I'm very happy that Rachel will be more in her orbit. R. was hesitant at first, but by the end of the hour was having fun, so I'm thinking this is a hit.
3) Both she and her 10-year-old brother will be doing a weekly homeschool "gym-and-swim at our local YMCA, which is another new thing for us this year. He was sick on Monday, but she went and had a blast. So the theme of this week seems to be "welcome to a busy year of much driving." Been a long time since we had a year like this . . .
4) Speaking of the DRE and the parish, our Faith Formation program started last Sunday. I'm the First Communion catechist, for the fourth year running; I have 27 children this year, most of them from Spanish-speaking homes, which always makes sending home materials for, say, a child's first Confession a bit of a challenge.
The children are lovely, though. Some of them I know already, just from hanging around; some are the younger brothers or sisters of children I've taught in previous years; this class is the first to have gone through the kindergarten atrium taught by a homeschooling-mom friend of mine, and I can already see a difference in them from previous classes. (Or maybe it's just that they're always irresistibly cute on the first day, before we all get too used to each other!).
I was talking about the Year of Faith and drawing that ship logo on the board (Miss Sally's "art" is an annual tradition in First Communion class), and I asked them where, if we got into it, they thought that ship would take us.
A little girl named America, which I have to mention because I just love that her name is America (I won't be able to stop myself calling her "Miss America" all year) raised her hand and said, in the most wonderfully awestruck voice, "Heaven!"
I think this is going to be a good class.
I just received in the mail today a big box of those Hygloss blank books from Dick Blick, which I'm using with my younger kids at home but am also going to use for notebooking in my class. In years past we've used binders and made First Communion books to take home at the end of the year, but this year we're going to do smaller ones, with copywork and illustrations in colored pencil.
5) Pretty good school week. I caught my 10-year-old sneaking his grammar notebook into bed with him the other night, so that he could write and diagram more sentences on his own. I think that was probably the high point.
So anyway. Wednesday was a blur, but this was the week that was.
Sally
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