Elena 
By now maybe you’ve guessed my secret? I am super busy on Wednesdays and Thursdays. Too busy to really do much blogging. So hopefully I am falling into a pattern of substantive posts on Friday through Monday, a look at the carnivals on Tuesday, Works for Me Wednesday, My Domestic Clippings on Thursday – mix and repeat!
A couple of things are going on though. Mr. Pete’s business is poised to really grow in the next eight months. If things go as we hope, we will actually start to have some wiggle room in our budget, to the point that it will be nice to sell things on eBay, not that we HAVE to sell things on eBay. I’m praying that it works out the way he wants it too.
Swimming season is behind us. The banquet is Monday. Calvin did very well at the swimming sectionals, but not enough to get to districts and state. Next year is his last year and I hope that he can focus on that like a laser beam. Surprisingly, he made it through swim season without losing his job as a life guard! Considering how many times work and swimming conflicted in his schedule I think it’s just amazing that he got through it. I was very very hands off. I did nag him a little bit to make sure he got a sub at work. There were a few close calls where he didn’t get a sub and arrived just in time for his gig. He got written up once for being late, but overall, I think that’s amazing.
Sam plays the piano at the ribbon festival this weekend. He is nervous about it but he’ll do fine. This is his third time. We still don’t know what we are doing for high school next year. He has no strong feelings one way or the other about school. He would like to continue to play soccer somehow. It’s a shame that in this country we have intertwined sports and academics together so closely that homeschooled kids don’t have a chance to play competitive sports in high school. Considering we still pay taxes I’m not sure how that gets justified. Nonetheless, Mr. Pete says there’s more to education than sports and he doesn’t think we should base our decisions just on that. I’ll have to keep my eyes and ears open for other opportunities for him to play if we don’t go the public school route.
All the other kids are doing fine. I’ve got a plan about how I want to study history with these younger three, but I haven’t fully formed it yet. I’m still working on it but it will be based on the little house books and their prequels since I just recently won 21 of them on eBay!
I think I’m hitting my midlife crisis. Hmmm… that must mean that unless something else happens to me, I’m programmed to live to 94? I’ve got aches and pains where I haven’t had them before. I know I should go to the doctor, but if it’s bad news, I don’t want to know about it! I think a lot of it is in my head because of my cousin’s recent death and the fact that my mother’s melanoma has started to get more active. I talk to my mother about her health at least three times a day. I guess it’s no wonder when I get off the phone reviewing her symptoms, that my mind starts cataloging my own!
Lent is going okay, but I need to do more of the spiritual reading that I was planning. Hopefully I can make it to mass tomorrow since I won’t be able to go to Stations of the Cross, and work in some reading too.
Speaking of Lent and Easter, this year my musical group is expected to perform for Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Vigil and Easter Sunday! Last year we did Good Friday and the Vigil, but this year they decided all the musicians needed to be there for all of the big events. I’m thinking that’s great if you are a director or a keyboard player (the only musicians who are paid in my parish). It’s not so great for the volunteers with children. I’m not sure I want to play all of those events and attend all of those rehearsals! In fact, I think not! I’m not sure which ones to choose though. I’d love to do the vigil, but I don’t think Rosie will be good at it this year. I might have Sam and Gabe go to the vigil with us and then have Calvin and the younger kids go to Easter Sunday. I hate to break up the family like that, but I don’t see another way around it with a toddler in tow! So I’m still working that out.
I’m also playing with the children’s choir after Easter. I will have a student flutist playing with me. My musical group also has two student flutists. I was very resistant to that, but then I misread a quote by C. S Lewis. To paraphrase I thought it said, “There are two types of people, ones that say ‘God’s will be done’ and ones that say, ‘Fine,have it your way!'” I figured after God gave me a third student to play with, He was clearly saying this is what I’m supposed to be doing now. No more solo diva status for me! I am to mentor! It isn’t what I wanted or planned, but what are you gonna do? At this time in my musical career, I am stuck er…, called.
Anyway, I am looking forward to St. Patrick’s next week and I have some cute crafts planned. We also made our spoon art saints of Sts. Perpetua and Felicity. They turned out so cute! I’ll have them up tomorrow. Enjoy the clipping links. There is some good reading in there.
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