Should have stayed inside..

If you read my previous post you see that I signed off to go help my family in the yard. Turns out I should have stayed inside. I ended up getting exposed to poison ivy and have been fighting the outbreak for the last week. both of my arms, my chest and my chin have been invaded! Silly me, I didn't think to look for poison ivy. I was pulling plants in part of our backyard and worked hard. We even took pictures of my son cutting the lawn for the first time. My reward, oozing, itchy sores!

Fortunately the son didn't help so much, he has one little spot, that is thankfully not itchy. I had poison ivy as a kid, but didn't remember it being so itchy. I've lived on Benadryl for the last week and that makes me very tired, so I've felt like a zombie for the last week. Thankfully it is getting better. Great botany lesson, how not to mess with plants.

Just to rub it in, no pun intended, the paper had a big article on poison ivy this Sunday. It came a week too late. I probably would have recognized it from it's picture in the paper. Just remember when you look at leaves.... if there's three, let it be!!! Valuable life lesson, just for you....

How many more days until vacation?

We are winding down our third grade year. I look back to the beginning of the year and realize we have come a long way. Just like children grow physically, it's there you may not see it everyday, but it is there. In fact, my son grew 1/4" in the last month. We have the "chart" on his closet doorframe. As this school year ends, I am already planning for next fall.

We were blessed to be able to order all of his books already. Just need to pull it all together. We are changing providers on every subject, so there is new material to look at, lesson plans for some subjects, and folders to make for others. I had to pull an extra bookshelf into the office, just for the new books. I haven't let him look at them too much, I don't want him running away in terror over the sheer number of them.

Fourth grade is going to be an exciting time. Aside from the usual subjects, such as grammar and math, we will be adding some great subjects. In science, we are going to spend all year on Astronomy, History is a year long study on US history and geography. We'll also do Creative writing, poetry, Spanish, teaching on worship, music theory, conflict resolution, and drawing basics. We have a slew of books for reading and even some historical movies planned. I plan on learning a lot.

Right now he is learning lawn maintenance from dad. I better go join them I'm sure there is something for me to do.