I'm working on so many posts right now it's nutty. There are so many things I want to talk about! New Year's Resolutions, How I Lesson Plan, Thoughts on Our Domestic Church, Middle Ages Activities, Our Mid-Year Review, Meal Planning and How We "Do" the Feingold Diet. And then there are all these pictures I want to upload to The Nature Corner ...
I was hoping to have one of these posts coherent enough this morning to roll with and yet they are all still sitting there as drafts, clunky and half-cooked ...
So! First thing I'm going to do - I am going to update the update to the alphabet meme. And then I am going to send a few emails (I think I have it working again) and then I am going to write out my weekend "to-do" list (see below for the rough draft).
Oh, and here's what my boys have in store for me this weekend:
Do they know me or what?! For my birthday they (and Daddy) gave me the original BBC Pride & Prejudice (2 discs!) and a $20 gift certificate to Barnes & Noble! So now I know what I am doing while I fold laundry this afternoon - drinking in hours worth of Jane Austen's brilliant story. Oh, and that wine was from dinner last night - today it will be tea. ;)
And what else is on my to-do list?
- Finish Christmas thank you notes.
- Fold laundry (bears repeating, there's just so much).
- Make cards for Damee whose birthday is tomorrow.
- Change all bedding (usually a Monday chore, but the beds are overdue).
- Purchase 40 lbs. black oil birdseed and fill all the birdfeeders. (Not all 40 lbs. at once, mind you.)
- Write out bills; do budget for week ahead.
- Prepare weekly folder of lessons and activities for week ahead.
- Clean out the van.
- Cheer on the Patriots!
Oh, there's more to the list; there always is. But I'll stop there to keep it mildly realistic.
But let me ask you in closing, what would you buy with $20 at Barnes & Noble? I always end up buying things in the children's department - which is great, obviously, since as a homeschooling mum my stock and trade is children's books - but today, I want to pick something for me.
Hmmm ... but what should I go for - fiction, nonfiction, CD, DVD? A nature diary, a cookbook, a classic I've been meaning to read? (And by the way, Bookworm has a $10 gift card to spend there as well - he has his eye on Redwall, but he's open to suggestions, too!)
Have a great weekend, everyone!
P.S. Ack! My email is still down - I can receive, but can't seem to send out. Working on it!
