Lovely Irony, or how blowing off paperwork got it done....

Ahhhhh....whenever you feel stressed and time-crunched over some project etc I highly recommend going to the park....as I struggled to make our summer plans into something cohesive after my original more orderly plans were tossed sideways with some unexpected (tho great) additions, I decided to say Oh Whatever and took the kids to the SBHN Group at Large Wed parkday....not only did they have fun, but I not only relaxed but got my problems solved too!

So now even though it still isn't in the framework I had originally conceived, all I wanted to cover is still getting attended to...more on that later....

Seasons of Life.....change and more change

{Sigh....I came to this blogsite to post a speedy entry before I get really behind on things to discover the music player is no longer able to play! Urgh...half the essence of the blog is the music! I am going to have to figure out how to load an iPod playlist I suppose since PLaylist.com no longer supports itself properly. Just another unexpected change! This won't make any difference to the physical memory book, which is completely behind, but it was one of the whimsy bits that made the blog feel like a Flower Fairy Garden, and now for the moment, it's gone..sorry those who enjoyed it.}

I got a little behind on this blog, but it worked out for the better....I have ended up making changes to our summer plans so I am glad I didn't post it all only to retract. But first, I must acknowledge the End of First Grade. 

The Twirly-Whirly has received her very first report card....so very cool and necessary to benefit from places that give kids freebies and what-not by showing their report card! Homeschoolers deserve the same treats! She has grown so much! I know I say that a lot, but it's sooo true! She has begun the 6 year change....I am glad it's only a phase...I am already tiring of the "teenager" mouth! But as she approaches her 7th birthday, she begins to cross that Rainbow Bridge from Early Childhood into True Childhood which will run till she's 14. It's a whole new world! Thankfully one still filled with imagination...she is presently playing My Little Ponies visits her Treehouse people...no growing up too soon around here! 

Isn't it funny how we can say how big they seem at each age and yet one day we look back and declare how little they were?! (more blog later...must work on paperwork now...Happy Litha!)

Circling...waiting for landing....

June 1

I can hardly believe that yet again here we are on the verge of summer and all that it means: Twirly-Whirly is wrapping First Grade while her RT brother (that's Resident Teenager btw) is on the cusp of graduation from high school! I know that before I can fully realize it *she* will be the one graduating! 

I am so glad we can only really take it one day at a time...with apologies to the Doctor should he stumble across this entry, I am happy with that. My brain is full enough without adding differing/parallel etc time streams to the mix.

This past week saw us halfway through letter W..we did the Alphabet Path/Flower Fairy story and we were due to do Beatrix Potter W (Tale of Pig Robinson) but she found some story/dictation paper and was off writing her own lesson today, a crossover story of Wind in the Willows and Peter Pan. 

She has been practicing her violin all week as we anticipate her very first concert tomorrow night. She has a second one on July 4th. She has also been rehearsing for two choir shows as well...one on the 10th of this month and the other on July 1. 

At least we'll have a break from ballet this summer tho that is 'replaced' by swim lessons almost every weekday of July! Speaking of ballet tho, we were yet again treated to another superb performance by the South Bay Ballet (via Friendship Circle as well as the SBB Outreach Program). This year it was Cinderella and TW opted to make it a Girls Night Out so we invited her HearthKeepers friend and her mom to join us. Her friend also dances ballet so it was really fun for the girls. Her friend even saw one of *her* former dance classmates in the show!

 After the show there were chances for the children to take pictures with the dancers. This one is my fave:

It took her a while to work up the nerve to approach both Cinderella and The Prince, but doesn't she look like she ought to be their daughter? I am not the only one who liked it as a professional photographer there asked if he could take one of the three of them too. Who knows? Maybe she'll be in a newspaper article? I am fairly certain that one day it will be her turn to pose with aspiring little girls! ;)

That's it for this entry. I will be glad to get the last 2 weeks of June free(ish) to work up the beginnings of 2nd grade, which will be knocking at my door soon enough!