Life in the Brownie Pan

on his 19th birthday?

He’s leaving his city.  He’s leaving his province.  He’s leaving his COUNTRY!!!! 

I’ll be losing my mind!!

He leaves Friday (12th) afternoon.

He’ll be traveling out of the country Friday afternoon to Connecticut (USA) to take his Certified Landscape Engineering course test.  The test he’s doing is an eleven hour long test, it starts at 6am, and goes straight through to 6pm (with a one hour lunch break).  It involves a written portion, and then a variety of hands on labour and landscape engineering tasks and tests.  So he’ll need his wits about him, he’ll need to sleep well, and to apply what he’s learned to the tasks which he is being marked on.  This is a very important test for him.  If he passes, it means a significant raise for him, and the ability to put a C.L.E. after his name, for business purposes (of course in the landscaping industry only 

Apparently it’s really hard to pass this test on the first try.  Two of the 3 other men going down with him, are taking it for the second time.  A fair number of folks fail the 2nd attempt too.  No pressure there, hey?  He wants, really badly, to pass the first time off the mark!

At this point, it appears he will be doing the driving – though that can change.  So, as we know it, he’s driving himself and the other 3 men attending this test on the weekend from here to Connecticut, and then back home again on Sunday.

He’ll be away from home for his birthday – it is going to be hard on him, and all of us.  It’s the first time any of my children will not be able to celebrate their special day with the family. 

Monday night I couldn’t sleep.  Finally succumbed to dream land at 8:10am, only to be woken back up 40 minutes later by the phone.  I did manage to get a one and a half hour nap Tuesday afternoon, so that helped some what.

Again last night …. no sleep.  I’m sitting here typing this at 8:42am, minutely tired, but that’s it.  My children are getting up for the day, breakfast needs to be made, school started …. and I’m just shaking my head.  How am I going to get through, yet another, sleepless night – day. 

What is up with my poor body and sleep … what is up with it???!

that you seriously ?  I mean, went off to ‘chat’ with the porcelain throne?

I’ve done this twice in recent months, with last night being the second time.

what happens is, my funny bone gets tickled and I start laughing.  Then if I get in a full rolling hold your belly and laugh uncontrollably kind of laugh, I start snorting.  Once i start snorting, I then have memories of my mother doing the same thing .. and I start laughing harder, and snorting more.  It’s a vicious circle really.  Now I’m snorting because I’m laughing, and I’m laughing because I’m snorting.  It escalates until I’m laughing so hard I can’t catch my breath and that’s when the thing strikes.

Okay .. that explains, at least WHY I end up doing that.

Now the what set me off thing.

I sat the children down last night to have a quick family meeting about the upcoming  schedule changes for our household, because school was starting up again for us.

So I said to them what their new – old – bedtimes would be again.  Leaving off the randomness of the summer sleeping and waking schedule and getting back into the concrete Fall/Winter/Spring sleeping schedule.

I said , "Denny, Michael and Belle, your wake up time will be 7:30am" They all groaned but nodded in agreement.

I know Ike will be home a bit more now, as work is really slow right now, and so he’s not needed everyday at this time.  It will pick up again in about 3 weeks time, or so. So, turned to Ike and said, "When you are home from work you will have to be up by 7:30 too.

CDee says to Ike, while having a huge grin on his face, "Hey look man, you get to sleep in two minutes more than everyone else."

We all lost it.  Cause he was right, it sounded like I was saying you have to get up at 7:32!

Hello. 

It’s been awhile since we’ve spoken, old friend.  Yesterday I copied some previously printed/posted items, I don’t wish to lose, from places I frequent online.  So if you see some familiar stuff, for those that also frequent those places …. just chuckle and move on .

Lisa

got this in my monthly HSLDA report.  This sends chills down my spine and makes my stomach hurt.  I’m going to call HSLDA early next week and find out how we are to combat this mandatory edict from the government.  I want to move so bad my teeth actually ache with the need to go.  This sure isn’t helping any.

3. Quebec Mandates Relativistic Education For All Students

Quebec is in the process of making all forms of religious education illegal. Through the protection of HSLDA, homeschoolers have refused to follow these rules and have been successfully defended in their choices.

QUEBEC CITY, October 4, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As of the beginning of the 2008 school year, all students in the province of Quebec whether in public school, private school or even homeschooled will be mandated to take a program on "Ethics and Religious Culture" which runs from grade one till the end of high school.  The program is completely relativistic and includes positive presentation of homosexual families and requires children to question their own religious upbringing.

 
This website has the full article ….
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/oct/07100409.html