Hi everyone, yes I'm still alive although a bit embarrassed that I have neglected my blog for so long.  I have this funny guilt thing.,   I put something off, then I feel bad because I've neglected it and instead of dealing with it, I feel so bad that I avoid it more, neglecting it longer, which makes me feel worse, which makes me avoid to MORE, which makes me feel WORSE.  Absurd cycle.  So I plunked myself down and decided TODAY I would break the cycle.  Aren't you proud of me?

Updates, I've been reading everyone's comments on my last post, thanks guys it's nice to hear from others who are in the same boat or like what I have to say or feel like I've go an answer for them.  Don't know if I've got a true answer, but you can be sure I've got an opinion!!!!  And it takes very little coaxing to get me to SHARE IT!!

My husband and I just had our 20th anniversary!Ok, just kidding it's not like that!!!  More like MOST of the time.

This entry isn't going to be much about our learning, oh well.  Anyway, we had planned to go away for our anniversary, just a little overnight trip to a town not far away but really neat.  But weather, sickness and circumstances conspired against us.  We are still going just maybe next week or something. 

So, at first I was a little disappointed.  I mean 20 years is a pretty cool thing, don't you think?  We wound up have a fairly ordinary day.  The exception being that I managed to pull off roast beef and scalloped potatoes for supper (in China that takes some planning!) and chocolate cake. 

An ordinary day.  At the end of my "ordinary day" I took a look.  On my ordinary day S and I snuggled up and just read for a while.  He's reading "The Key to the Indian " to me and I'm reading "Black Ships Before Troy" and "Surviving the Applewhites" to him.  The girls focused on the things they are studying. EJ on GED prep book.  ED on Charlamagne research, she's finding him quite interesting.

When I baked the chocolate cake and took it out of the pan it cracked.  But then my oldest complimented me on how calmly I took it.  We have a mutual friend who would have cracked herself if it had been her cake! 

Really not an unusal day.  But my kids get along, I get along with them (MOST of the time), my husband I get along.  On our ordinary day we all were together and happy even when spending time on our various interests.  That those things in my life are ordinary and NOT unusual, makes it really, really special.

doulos