14th August 2008

Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone…

posted in Family, Reader Input |

Early this a.m., I drove GrannyJ to the Big City airport, escorted her to the gate, and saw her off.  Then I drove home and fell into bed and slept, and slept, and slept.

I need a vacation from this vacation!

These past few weeks have been grand fun, but very active, and have flown by in an instant.  We climbed a glacier, took a sea cruise, wandered through the back roads in the mountains this way and that, drove up to The Big One, and poked around in non-tourist-y areas as well.

Now it’s time for life to settle back into a predictable routine.  The dotter’s school starts on Monday, as does her gymnastics team stuff.  I have to delve into my emails, which I haven’t looked at more than once in the past two weeks.  There’s a huge heap of laundry to do.  I have to figure out why our Dyson has stopped sucking and is instead making an odd noise (::sob!::).  I have to buy a full-spectrum lamp for my office, because Winter Is Coming, and I sure as snot am not going to suffer as much as I did last November and December, dammit!

Del asked for a high-res version of the sunset picture, so here it is.

Minot mentioned that the Dread Porpoise Sekrit may not be too secret for too long, as the dotter will be reading my blog before I know it.  This is, indeed, a consideration, and one I thought about before posting.  However, the main problem is keeping it secret for a few months, not years–All Will Be Revealed someday.  I just wanted the dotter to bask in the magic for a little longer.

Then there’s the fact that OmegaDotter seems bound and determined to not read.  I’m hoping that having to do homework will at least get us past the “I don’t want to ‘read’ but will startle you with out-of-the-blue random readings of street signs, trucks, business logos and what-not” stage.  She’s got some kind of block, and the end result is she sort of sticks out her lower lip when urged to read.  So I’m not too worried about the Dread Porpoise Sekrit being revealed all too soon.

Anyway, here’s hoping that now that we’ve returned to a form of normalcy, I’ll be posting more regularly…

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There are currently 4 responses to “Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone…”

  1. 1 On August 14th, 2008, preTzel said:

    Poems. That rhyme. The funnier and sillier the better. I have yet to come across a child that will not want to read the silly twists and turns of a story that are rhyming and go absolutely nowhere and absolutely everywhere their imagination can take them. :D

    I’m sorry GrannyJ had to go home and took the sunshine with her. :(

  2. 2 On August 14th, 2008, GrannyJ said:

    Re: sunshine. Of course it was sunny in Phx. Of course it was hot. I managed to catch a shuttle up to the mountains after a very short while & have to report that at 6 p.m., the Monsoon storms were already pouring down out of the mountains into North Phx. Very unusual. All that wandering about was wonderful, but there are a lot of other places in Alaska that neither of us ha seen. Hint, hint!

  3. 3 On August 15th, 2008, del said:

    Thanks for the hi-rez version of the sunset pic. I’m using it as my desktop wallpaper now!

  4. 4 On August 18th, 2008, Theresa said:

    Despite the fact that our parent teacher conferences for dd in PreK-3 , Pre K 4 and Kindergarten have all gone well and I see her do well on the work she brings home our dd is putting up some sort of resistance to the idea of reading too-and having taught 2nd grade and knowing what she needs to learn in this one year of first grade I am nervous. On the one hand I hope her resistance is just more of her typical resistance to mommy directly teaching her something. She loves when I read her a good chapter book and I think may feel the level of the books she can read now-like those BOB books must seem boring. On the other hand I have fears that my concerns regarding dd’s delays in speech are going to interfere with her developing ability to read
    and write.Add to that the frustrasion I have had ever since the EI team came to our house after we had been home a year and said though dd was delayed in speech she was not delayed enough to qualify for services-Translation:there was not enough funding. This has continued even into Kindergarten where speech services are offered but there was not enough room in the therapist’schedule. Now in first grade she may be pulled out of reading instruction for speech therapy. Having witnessed these pullout programs in my own classroom I hate it.

    So I am going to send warm 90 degree rays of sunshine of hope from here in PA to Omegadottir and we’ll welcome cool breezes from Alaska to calm down this overly anxious mother so I don’t pass on my concerns directly to dd.

    Apologies for any strange typpos. Been having trouble sleeping lately and took an Ambien before posting this. The keyboard feels wiggly and I feel like I might fall into the computer. I better crawl off to bed.

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