Random Thoughts on Sunday Afternoon
Well, another weekend has flown by. It seems like time is ticking fast and the weeks are just falling off the calendar to us. We are gearing up for another trip for Marc. Thankfully it's a short one, but the hard part is that he's flying to Dallas without us. Boo. He'll be meeting with our students that come every summer and I know how beneficial it is since we were both able to be there last year. He's pretty much taking an empty suitcase so the shopping that my mom is going to do for us will fill it up! (I'm emailing that list soon, Mom)
Ok, so sometimes I freak out over our girls' education. Some days I feel like they are getting a good one and other days I worry. I've been working with Cerys a lot on her reading, I'm really proud of how far she's come. But the other day we got a list of words sent home and another reader asking that we help her. So just when I think she's doing good. I just kind of laughed when the words on the list were "everyone" and "because" and bunch of other words I thought were kind of tough for a 6 year old. But since they start school so much earlier here, I guess she should be reading words like this. We have parent/teacher conferences next week so I'm really looking forward to finding out more. Cerys said some of her friends were making fun of her for being in the orange group. I've been a public school teacher and I can catch on pretty quick to the groupings they have done here, so I just keep encouraging her and letting her know how proud we are of the progress she is making.
As you know, Bailey is in her first year of "full time/all day" school and is doing really well too. She just told me this past week that she wanted to start reading like her sister so we've been working on that at home. She's reading basics like "The cat sat on the mat." However today she told me that "grapes" and "saw" were rhyming words. Alrighty then. I got up in the loft (attic) this afternoon to get out some of my old teacher stuff and they had a blast looking through everything. Then I freaked out. Should I be teaching Texas history? American history? The girls don't even know all the States! Marc interrupted my panic attack and said, "Honey, Bailey doesn't even know what Cardiff is, Texas is the least of our worries right now!" I just busted out laughing. But honestly, I do worry about them not knowing enough or when/how to teach it to them. I'm sure there is plenty of time to teach them American history, right?
Addison just held up a blue M&M and said, "Momma, blue!" So that makes me feel better. At least we can recognize the color of our candy. I'm sure that was a total fluke by the way!
There's a lot of talk around here about the Royal Wedding next month. I read a newspaper article that said that Cardiff might be having the largest number of street parties outside of London. We will be coming back from our holiday on that day, I hope it won't cause any issues getting back into town. I'm sure it won't, but you never know. We didn't really mean to plan our return on that day, but Marc got confused on the wedding date. He thinks they moved the wedding date from a previous date that was set. I'm not sure about that, but it really doesn't matter now! Speaking of holiday, since the girls are out of school for 2 weeks at Easter time, one of those week we will be driving to France. We are really excited about it. The girls cried when we told them we were going on holiday- have I told you that already? We were a bit shocked, but as we began to talk about things we realized that they thought they were never coming back to our house in Wales. I think because of our long "holiday" in Texas and the fact that kids come and go so much in their school they assumed we weren't coming back. Ahhh, that was a long drawn out event. Marc and I were exhausted after two nights of crying about it. They were crying, not us. I mean, seriously, it's ONLY FOR 6 DAYS!
Have you heard of the 100 Push up Challenge? Marc and I are 3 weeks in and I've hurt my wrist! I actually hurt it a few months ago and it's been acting up since then. It got so bad this weekend that I'm sitting here with a homemade bandage on it trying to keep it stiff. I cut some holes for my fingers in this elastic band and I'm using a piece of cardboard from a, um, feminine product box, to keep it sort of stiff. Don't laugh. Desperate times call for desperate measures. I'm thinking I should see a doctor this week. With this challenge you are suppose to be able to do 100 push-ups by the 6th week. It works, but I'm not sure I will be able to finish it. Marc is blasting through them though and I must say, he's always had nice arms. *grin*
Oh, how could I forget! We found out a few weeks ago that Krispy Kreme is opening in Cardiff! Can you believe it? We read about it online and this past week when we were in town we saw the space where they are putting it in. Lo and behold it's right under Starbucks! Lord have mercy. My 4 day a week gym workouts might have to turn into 7 days a week.
Thanks for reading this far. There's a lot going on here but these are just the small things that come to mind.