The three princesses that are old enough to do so, made their Jack-o-lanterns the other day. I like to light real candles for them instead of using battery operated lights, so my duty has been to light the pumpkins in the evening. Pumpkin insides are pretty gross, though, just so you know. The roasted seeds were the best that I've ever made, so that's the big bonus.
Princess Abbey and Princess Tarja painted wooded Jack-o-Lantern faces that the king bought for them from Micheals. They are colored blue and green instead of orange and black.
After much thought and a glance at our slender budget, the princesses determined that they would like to be trolls for Halloween. They don't want to be the ugly kind of trolls that hide under bridges, they want to be the colorful, wild haired trolls that were popular in the 80's. I used to have an amazing collection of those little cuties. Each girl chose a different colored hair spray, and we got some stick on jewels to decorate their faces. They can wear regular clothes to go with their crazy hair, just like the troll dolls. I'm stoked that they came up with such a fun and economical idea. Princess Melody might have to miss trick or treat for the first time, due to her work schedule.
As for Princess Ivana, I don't think that we can spray paint her little fuzzy head, so she is going to wear her Cabbage Patch Kid beanie that I made for her.
Yesterday, Abbey had archery lessons for two hours and Melody worked at McDonalds. I worked on crochet orders, made felt/sequin Christmas ornaments and answered ChaCha questions at the same time. I also picked up some Avon orders here and there in between doing all of these other things. I hope that Avon becomes very profitable for us, since I really do love it.
Have a Great Day!
Laurel Santiago
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Friday, October 26, 2012
Old School Blogging
I used to blog about my day to day homeschooling journey with my family, but I got a little bit bored with that, so I quit. I started blogging about things that seemed to be a little bit more newsworthy. However, I have been meeting more and more friends that are new to homeschooling, and they actually ask me questions about what our day to day lives are like. Therefore, I have been inspired to go back to my old ways of blogging. Maybe what my readers need is some affirmation that I am, indeed, a normal mom, with a life that might not be as normal as some, but more normal than one might think. To start us off, I will give a general detail of what has gone on with us since my last post.
First of all, I made it through three marching contests with the local junior high school. The first two contests were sort of a practice one for the UIL marching contest that took place last. To make a long story short, the band and twirlers were amazing. They got a first division rating and are the only junior high band in the entire state of Texas that goes to the UIL marching contest. What an honor to have been a part of that for this year!
Here's a detail of what many of our days are like. First of all, I usually wake up about 7:30a.m. This may seem late to some of your, but Princess Melody doesn't get home from her job at a local fast food place until nearly 1a.m. on many nights. The rest of the family is usually still asleep when I wake up, except for Princess Ivana. Ivana normally plays with me for a little while, then sits in her high chair and eats while I straighten up the kitchen and surrounding areas. As I type amid chaos, a visitor might think that I never clean up, but it is just a never ending process around here. To backtrack a little bit, I feed Ivana, wash any dishes that are dirty, put away clean dishes, start laundry, put away clean laundry and wander around picking up any stray trash that I find around the house. I try to straighten up my bedroom when I first get up, but that doesn't always happen. Breakfast and lunch are usually leftovers from the night before, or pretty much whatever anybody wants. We have cereal, eggs, and a McDonalds down the road. I personally LOVE to have the sausage/egg/mcmuffins in the morning, but my blood sugar doesn't always appreciate it, so we can't do that as often as I would like. So there's the truth about the first two meals at my house. It's food, and isn't our all consuming thought.
Usually by about 10:30a.m. we have settled down enough to get some school work done. If I have a lot of household errands to run, then we might not get started until after lunch. School work is time4learning.com for Tarja, with stories read out loud from story books of her choosing. She finished her PreK curriculum during the summer, so now we're slowly working our way through kindergarten. At age four, I figure that we can take our time and do short lessons each day. If Tarja isn't feeling up to it, then we don't do a lesson. YIKES! Did I really say that???? You read it right. I don't pressure my four year old into doing her school work, but I do take full advantage of days when she feels energetic and ready to learn. Abbey and Tarja both do math on ixl.com. It does the teaching (for the most part) and grading for me. I have to work on Tarja's with her. Abbey logs in and does hers whenever she feels like it. She claims to not like math, but she practices for hours on ixl so I have no complaints. I get to log into my area and see what she has worked on and how well she did, or not. If no progress is being made, then we talk about it, but other than that, my input isn't really terribly necessary. I love this, since math is not my thing. When Princess Tarja and Ivana settle down in the afternoon, I go over Abbey's Forestry and Wildlife Conservation course with her. We read and do the study questions together, and then she takes a test online. After that, I read Mere Christianity by CS Lewis out loud. We discuss what we need to discuss from it, and then Abbey retreats to my bedroom to work on the rest of her studies. The majority of her work is done by reading and narrating what she has read. There isn't much to grade. There isn't much to teach, but there is much, much, much to read. As for Princess Melody, the better part of each day is spent at her job. She likes to run my errands with me each morning, and I have to strongly encourage her to stay on task with her online curriculum, but she is doing very well so far. Again, there isn't much that I can do to help or teach her. She has to read and study the prescribed lessons on her own, but I am here to assist when needed. One lesson learned is that online college courses aren't necessarily easier than more traditional courses.
While all of the above is going on, I also have the challenges of keeping our financial heads afloat since I don't have a job outside the home. I make custom crocheted items, give twirling lessons, am a ChaCha guide and have just started selling AVON. Needless to say, my fingers and mind are usually flying from the time that I get up in the morning, until the time that I go to bed, which is well past midnight.
Looking back over this post, I can see that it doesn't include a whole lot of things such as Abbey's archery lessons, or Melody's art work. There's also Girl Scouts and the Sands Art Association. There is much more to tell, so starting tomorrow, I will start back on the daily journal of our lives. We are simple in a lot of ways and very complex in others. We don't do things as formally as a public or private school, which seems to confuse some of the newer homeschoolers. I don't have a real philosophy about education. I didn't like unschooling for my princesses, but I don't like strict, rigid structure, either. I insist that learning happens 24 hours a day, which means that the traditional school schedule means absolutely nothing to me.
So for now, I am going to pick up something to throw in the oven for dinner, work on a few crochet orders, and answer as many ChaCha questions as I can until I can no longer keep my eyes open.
Have a Great Day!
Laurel
First of all, I made it through three marching contests with the local junior high school. The first two contests were sort of a practice one for the UIL marching contest that took place last. To make a long story short, the band and twirlers were amazing. They got a first division rating and are the only junior high band in the entire state of Texas that goes to the UIL marching contest. What an honor to have been a part of that for this year!
Here's a detail of what many of our days are like. First of all, I usually wake up about 7:30a.m. This may seem late to some of your, but Princess Melody doesn't get home from her job at a local fast food place until nearly 1a.m. on many nights. The rest of the family is usually still asleep when I wake up, except for Princess Ivana. Ivana normally plays with me for a little while, then sits in her high chair and eats while I straighten up the kitchen and surrounding areas. As I type amid chaos, a visitor might think that I never clean up, but it is just a never ending process around here. To backtrack a little bit, I feed Ivana, wash any dishes that are dirty, put away clean dishes, start laundry, put away clean laundry and wander around picking up any stray trash that I find around the house. I try to straighten up my bedroom when I first get up, but that doesn't always happen. Breakfast and lunch are usually leftovers from the night before, or pretty much whatever anybody wants. We have cereal, eggs, and a McDonalds down the road. I personally LOVE to have the sausage/egg/mcmuffins in the morning, but my blood sugar doesn't always appreciate it, so we can't do that as often as I would like. So there's the truth about the first two meals at my house. It's food, and isn't our all consuming thought.
Usually by about 10:30a.m. we have settled down enough to get some school work done. If I have a lot of household errands to run, then we might not get started until after lunch. School work is time4learning.com for Tarja, with stories read out loud from story books of her choosing. She finished her PreK curriculum during the summer, so now we're slowly working our way through kindergarten. At age four, I figure that we can take our time and do short lessons each day. If Tarja isn't feeling up to it, then we don't do a lesson. YIKES! Did I really say that???? You read it right. I don't pressure my four year old into doing her school work, but I do take full advantage of days when she feels energetic and ready to learn. Abbey and Tarja both do math on ixl.com. It does the teaching (for the most part) and grading for me. I have to work on Tarja's with her. Abbey logs in and does hers whenever she feels like it. She claims to not like math, but she practices for hours on ixl so I have no complaints. I get to log into my area and see what she has worked on and how well she did, or not. If no progress is being made, then we talk about it, but other than that, my input isn't really terribly necessary. I love this, since math is not my thing. When Princess Tarja and Ivana settle down in the afternoon, I go over Abbey's Forestry and Wildlife Conservation course with her. We read and do the study questions together, and then she takes a test online. After that, I read Mere Christianity by CS Lewis out loud. We discuss what we need to discuss from it, and then Abbey retreats to my bedroom to work on the rest of her studies. The majority of her work is done by reading and narrating what she has read. There isn't much to grade. There isn't much to teach, but there is much, much, much to read. As for Princess Melody, the better part of each day is spent at her job. She likes to run my errands with me each morning, and I have to strongly encourage her to stay on task with her online curriculum, but she is doing very well so far. Again, there isn't much that I can do to help or teach her. She has to read and study the prescribed lessons on her own, but I am here to assist when needed. One lesson learned is that online college courses aren't necessarily easier than more traditional courses.
While all of the above is going on, I also have the challenges of keeping our financial heads afloat since I don't have a job outside the home. I make custom crocheted items, give twirling lessons, am a ChaCha guide and have just started selling AVON. Needless to say, my fingers and mind are usually flying from the time that I get up in the morning, until the time that I go to bed, which is well past midnight.
Looking back over this post, I can see that it doesn't include a whole lot of things such as Abbey's archery lessons, or Melody's art work. There's also Girl Scouts and the Sands Art Association. There is much more to tell, so starting tomorrow, I will start back on the daily journal of our lives. We are simple in a lot of ways and very complex in others. We don't do things as formally as a public or private school, which seems to confuse some of the newer homeschoolers. I don't have a real philosophy about education. I didn't like unschooling for my princesses, but I don't like strict, rigid structure, either. I insist that learning happens 24 hours a day, which means that the traditional school schedule means absolutely nothing to me.
So for now, I am going to pick up something to throw in the oven for dinner, work on a few crochet orders, and answer as many ChaCha questions as I can until I can no longer keep my eyes open.
Have a Great Day!
Laurel
Saturday, September 29, 2012
Homeschool Schedules
Homeschool schedules.....you're joking, right? I will say that the best part of our lives as homeschoolers is that we get to create our lives rather than bouncing around according to what other people want us to do. With that said, one of the things that I had to purchase for myself at the start of this term is a desk calendar with lots of space to write. I don't have a desk to put it on, but it stays near me and my laptop. Keep reading to find out why I need such a calendar.
1. I started up The Sparklers Baton Twirling Corps, which is actually a business that I moved from my home town to my new town. Incidentally, we have been living here for about 3 years, but there were things that kept me from reigniting my business such as illness, lack of funds, lack of transportation and the birth of a new princess. The Sparklers meet for two hours, two days a week, and more if necessary.
2.I joined the Chamber of Commerce and we now get invited to do all kinds of community performances.
3. I joined our local homeschool group, and pledged to help the leader and coordinate educational projects.
4. Along the lines of number 3, I started a Girl Scout troop for homeschoolers.
5. During the summer, I was offered a job with the school to teach their baton twirling team in preparation for marching contest. This involves practice every morning for an hour and then an additional 2 hours on Tuesday night, which happens immediately after Tuesday's practice with The Sparklers. Can you say RUN???
6. THEN, our local art association had their first meeting for the year. I am now the President and Melody is the secretary. This is not because we are awesome or anything like that, but because nobody else wanted the positions and somebody has to do them to keep the group alive. Holy Cow! I am only afraid that they will kick me out in the end for my ADHD like qualities which could cause their schedules to begin to mimic my own.
Looking through the above list, my head is swimming with ideas of how to coordinate projects that include all of these groups at once. Twirlers are girls that could become girl scouts that could enjoy art if it was presented to them in such a way.......hmmm.......GET BACK TO THE BLOG, LAUREL! Wait a minute.......homeschoolers like art, which could become a series of educational projects that the Girl Scouts could help with, that the twirlers could perform to if I found some cool music, that the art association members would think was awesome if it was fun and could be a part of one of their regular meetings, during a holiday season filled with treats and ornaments......and......Santa is coming in 3 months, and the princesses want to all dress like fairies for Halloween and the answer to the math problem is ABCDEFGHIJK.....where's Ivana's binky???? LOL! Don't freak out by my rambling. It's all perfectly normal.
Happy Homeschooling!
1. I started up The Sparklers Baton Twirling Corps, which is actually a business that I moved from my home town to my new town. Incidentally, we have been living here for about 3 years, but there were things that kept me from reigniting my business such as illness, lack of funds, lack of transportation and the birth of a new princess. The Sparklers meet for two hours, two days a week, and more if necessary.
2.I joined the Chamber of Commerce and we now get invited to do all kinds of community performances.
3. I joined our local homeschool group, and pledged to help the leader and coordinate educational projects.
4. Along the lines of number 3, I started a Girl Scout troop for homeschoolers.
5. During the summer, I was offered a job with the school to teach their baton twirling team in preparation for marching contest. This involves practice every morning for an hour and then an additional 2 hours on Tuesday night, which happens immediately after Tuesday's practice with The Sparklers. Can you say RUN???
6. THEN, our local art association had their first meeting for the year. I am now the President and Melody is the secretary. This is not because we are awesome or anything like that, but because nobody else wanted the positions and somebody has to do them to keep the group alive. Holy Cow! I am only afraid that they will kick me out in the end for my ADHD like qualities which could cause their schedules to begin to mimic my own.
Looking through the above list, my head is swimming with ideas of how to coordinate projects that include all of these groups at once. Twirlers are girls that could become girl scouts that could enjoy art if it was presented to them in such a way.......hmmm.......GET BACK TO THE BLOG, LAUREL! Wait a minute.......homeschoolers like art, which could become a series of educational projects that the Girl Scouts could help with, that the twirlers could perform to if I found some cool music, that the art association members would think was awesome if it was fun and could be a part of one of their regular meetings, during a holiday season filled with treats and ornaments......and......Santa is coming in 3 months, and the princesses want to all dress like fairies for Halloween and the answer to the math problem is ABCDEFGHIJK.....where's Ivana's binky???? LOL! Don't freak out by my rambling. It's all perfectly normal.
Happy Homeschooling!
Saturday, September 8, 2012
Necessary Changes to our Charlotte Mason Curriculum
This is Princess Abbey's Y7 year with Charlotte Mason. This marks the first year of what could be considered Charlotte Mason high school. If Abbey were in public school, she would be in 8th grade, but I would venture to say that little of her Y7 program could be found in a public schooling 8th grade program.
This also means that the year is very challenging. I didn't realize how challenging it would be until we got started. Our first two weeks kind of feel like a waste right now, but we will keep moving forward, regardless. It's good that we truly don't have any strict deadlines other than that most kids should finish high school by around age 18. I still have a goal of graduating all of mine early, but when push comes to shove, it will depend on the individual princess and her abilities before we can truly determine when she is ready for graduation.
With that said, I was disappointed to discover that the reading schedule for this year is simply too much. I think that it would be too much for anybody, and I am an avid reader. For several days, I asked Abbey about her daily work. Her daily work for this year includes things like a current events book, a forestry and wildlife course, music/art appreciation, and quite a few other things. I was very disappointed to find out that she was having to make choices and decisions about what work or reading was most important and what would have to slide. Even by cutting out some things (without asking permission), she was working until well past midnight! I would tell her that she should stop and she would tell me that she could not. She had this schedule that I posted for her in her notebook, and she was bound and determined to do it. Holy cow! Suddenly, she is complaining that her eyes and head hurt badly. She doesn't feel well. She's too tired. This isn't the gentle education that Charlotte Mason created.
I took her schedules out of her notebook that I had written before the start of this school year. Those are now in the trash. This is one of the many benefits of homeschooling. If it doesn't work for your family, you can trash it. I wrote a new schedule that included all of her daily work and ONE book to read for the week rather than a chapter or two out of several different books to be read during the same term. I don't know for sure, but I think that by reading one book at the time, we can still get all of the books read for each term, and maybe they will all make a little more sense.
ALSO, on another note. I am reworking the book of centuries. The book of centuries is a very large timeline, created by entering events that happen during each century as the student runs across them in her reading. The last time that we created one, we used a spiral notebook, with a few pages designated for each century. By the time that the school year was over, we had many empty centuries, and others that were full and could take no more. This time, I'm putting together a three ring binder, with a divider for each century so that we can use loose notebook paper instead of attached pages. That way, we can have as many pages as we need for each century. In doing so, we should be able to make this one book last for the rest of her homeschooling years. I'm very proud of my simple idea.
This also means that the year is very challenging. I didn't realize how challenging it would be until we got started. Our first two weeks kind of feel like a waste right now, but we will keep moving forward, regardless. It's good that we truly don't have any strict deadlines other than that most kids should finish high school by around age 18. I still have a goal of graduating all of mine early, but when push comes to shove, it will depend on the individual princess and her abilities before we can truly determine when she is ready for graduation.
With that said, I was disappointed to discover that the reading schedule for this year is simply too much. I think that it would be too much for anybody, and I am an avid reader. For several days, I asked Abbey about her daily work. Her daily work for this year includes things like a current events book, a forestry and wildlife course, music/art appreciation, and quite a few other things. I was very disappointed to find out that she was having to make choices and decisions about what work or reading was most important and what would have to slide. Even by cutting out some things (without asking permission), she was working until well past midnight! I would tell her that she should stop and she would tell me that she could not. She had this schedule that I posted for her in her notebook, and she was bound and determined to do it. Holy cow! Suddenly, she is complaining that her eyes and head hurt badly. She doesn't feel well. She's too tired. This isn't the gentle education that Charlotte Mason created.
I took her schedules out of her notebook that I had written before the start of this school year. Those are now in the trash. This is one of the many benefits of homeschooling. If it doesn't work for your family, you can trash it. I wrote a new schedule that included all of her daily work and ONE book to read for the week rather than a chapter or two out of several different books to be read during the same term. I don't know for sure, but I think that by reading one book at the time, we can still get all of the books read for each term, and maybe they will all make a little more sense.
ALSO, on another note. I am reworking the book of centuries. The book of centuries is a very large timeline, created by entering events that happen during each century as the student runs across them in her reading. The last time that we created one, we used a spiral notebook, with a few pages designated for each century. By the time that the school year was over, we had many empty centuries, and others that were full and could take no more. This time, I'm putting together a three ring binder, with a divider for each century so that we can use loose notebook paper instead of attached pages. That way, we can have as many pages as we need for each century. In doing so, we should be able to make this one book last for the rest of her homeschooling years. I'm very proud of my simple idea.
Sunday, August 12, 2012
A New Kind of Homeschool Year
This year, I will homeschool my family, and also work for the local public school. There are those adult persons who think that this is a completely messed up situation. Why would I deny my children the chance to attend the school where I will be working part time? Hmmm........anyway......onward to our new schedule.
This is going to be a fresh, brand new school year, starting about August the 27th. I have a box full of books that Abbey will need to read for the entire year. I also included notebook paper, spirals, and pencils in this box so that she won't have to waste time hunting for these items.
This is going to be a fresh, brand new school year, starting about August the 27th. I have a box full of books that Abbey will need to read for the entire year. I also included notebook paper, spirals, and pencils in this box so that she won't have to waste time hunting for these items.
To Map Out a Course of Action.....
“Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you
that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt
you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of
action and follow it to an end requires courage.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The above quote really speaks to me, because my life has become like a hurricane for the past couple of weeks. Most of what is going on in my life is wonderful, but there always has to be something or someone to try to throw a monkey wrench into things to shake it up. I have learned over the years that the perpetrator is most often somebody that I love very much. Maybe the explanation for this is that if I didn't love and care about the saboteur, then I wouldn't be at all concerned about what he or she throws my way.
Be that as it may, I can look back on my life and see how just about every great and wonderful thing that has ever happened to me, has been the end result of a lot of sweat, tears, and misunderstandings. Good things don't normally come easy, and I always tell the Four Princesses that anything worth doing is going to be hard.
Homeschooling is hard. So is starting and maintaining one's own business. Choosing to leave the workforce to stay at home, homeschool, and attempt to start a business is and has been an amazing test of courage and faith. It takes a set of broad shoulders to be able to smile among critics and act like you don't hear or don't feel pain because of the things that they say. It takes even more courage to turn the other cheek, but there are too many things for a homeschooling mama to do, to have time to entertain the naysayers.
The point is that there are a lot of new homeschooling families in my community. They are embarking on an amazing experience. Each family's reason for homeschooling is as different as the children that they will teach. The first year of homeschooling can be very trying, and many families don't make it to the second year. I personally think that it does a child a great disservice to waffle between schooling situations, so the King and I determined together that once we removed our first grader from school, that it would be the end of schooling for her as she knew it. That was nearly 12 years ago. In 12 years, you can bet that we have had our share of challenges, but still manage to get up every morning and start each day brand new.
Have a Great Day!
Laurel
The above quote really speaks to me, because my life has become like a hurricane for the past couple of weeks. Most of what is going on in my life is wonderful, but there always has to be something or someone to try to throw a monkey wrench into things to shake it up. I have learned over the years that the perpetrator is most often somebody that I love very much. Maybe the explanation for this is that if I didn't love and care about the saboteur, then I wouldn't be at all concerned about what he or she throws my way.
Be that as it may, I can look back on my life and see how just about every great and wonderful thing that has ever happened to me, has been the end result of a lot of sweat, tears, and misunderstandings. Good things don't normally come easy, and I always tell the Four Princesses that anything worth doing is going to be hard.
Homeschooling is hard. So is starting and maintaining one's own business. Choosing to leave the workforce to stay at home, homeschool, and attempt to start a business is and has been an amazing test of courage and faith. It takes a set of broad shoulders to be able to smile among critics and act like you don't hear or don't feel pain because of the things that they say. It takes even more courage to turn the other cheek, but there are too many things for a homeschooling mama to do, to have time to entertain the naysayers.
The point is that there are a lot of new homeschooling families in my community. They are embarking on an amazing experience. Each family's reason for homeschooling is as different as the children that they will teach. The first year of homeschooling can be very trying, and many families don't make it to the second year. I personally think that it does a child a great disservice to waffle between schooling situations, so the King and I determined together that once we removed our first grader from school, that it would be the end of schooling for her as she knew it. That was nearly 12 years ago. In 12 years, you can bet that we have had our share of challenges, but still manage to get up every morning and start each day brand new.
Have a Great Day!
Laurel
Friday, August 3, 2012
20 Questions
My friend, whose blog about her and her four princes can be found HERE. She posted these 20 questions on her blog, and so now I'm going to attempt to answer them on mine. I love these kinds of games, by the way, so feel free to tag me for any of your own.
1. What color is your toothbrush
Purple
2. What is the best ice cream flavor?
Rocky Road, but I don't get to have any until someone comes up with a sugar free variety.
3. Have you ever made a promise you'd die to keep?
I would die for my children and my husband who is the father of all of my children.
4. Do you take vitamins daily?
Not unless you count my Spark energy drinks that I've been drinking.
5. Do you go to church every sunday?
Not every Sunday.
6. Do you have a tan?
I'm slightly tan to begin with, and then I teach twirling lessons outside, so I just go with the flow and don't worry about sunscreen or any of that.
7. When did you last talk on the phone?
The local band director called me a few minutes ago to tell me about our summer band schedule. I'M SO EXCITED TO BE THE NEW TWIRLING INSTRUCTOR!!!!! WHOOOOO HOOOOOOO!!!!!!! Ok....let me recompose myself.
8.Where is your dad?
I called my grandfather, Dad, because he raised me. He passed on about 3 years ago.
9. Look to your left, what do you see?
There is my headboard. On it sits a can of powdered baby formula, a spiral notebook, and a framed picture that Tarja colored for her daddy for Christmas.
10. What do you think of when you hear "Australia"?
This is not very creative, but I honestly picture kangaroos when I think of Australia.
11. What are your plans for this weekend?
I actually have no plans for this weekend. Crazy, huh?
12. Can you say the alphabet backwards?
I might be able to say the alphabet backwards.
13. Do you have a maid service clean your house?
No, but someday I will.
14. Do you use the word 'hello' daily?
I'm pretty sure that I do.
15. Name something that has made you angry.
I don't feel angry, but I am hurting over some things. I'll get over it, though.
16. Do you like cats?
I love cats. They are soft and beautiful, but I can't stand having them in my house.
17. Last CD played?
Melody and I listened to One Direction this morning while we she practiced driving.
18. Have you ever dated someone twice?
Back in high school, I dated one person twice, which was a mistake. I ran into the future king right after that.
19. Do you want to change your name?
I can't think of anything better than the name that I already have.
20. Last interesting thing you read?
I'm reading a Beverly Lewis book that Melody gave me for Mother's Day.
1. What color is your toothbrush
Purple
2. What is the best ice cream flavor?
Rocky Road, but I don't get to have any until someone comes up with a sugar free variety.
3. Have you ever made a promise you'd die to keep?
I would die for my children and my husband who is the father of all of my children.
4. Do you take vitamins daily?
Not unless you count my Spark energy drinks that I've been drinking.
5. Do you go to church every sunday?
Not every Sunday.
6. Do you have a tan?
I'm slightly tan to begin with, and then I teach twirling lessons outside, so I just go with the flow and don't worry about sunscreen or any of that.
7. When did you last talk on the phone?
The local band director called me a few minutes ago to tell me about our summer band schedule. I'M SO EXCITED TO BE THE NEW TWIRLING INSTRUCTOR!!!!! WHOOOOO HOOOOOOO!!!!!!! Ok....let me recompose myself.
8.Where is your dad?
I called my grandfather, Dad, because he raised me. He passed on about 3 years ago.
9. Look to your left, what do you see?
There is my headboard. On it sits a can of powdered baby formula, a spiral notebook, and a framed picture that Tarja colored for her daddy for Christmas.
10. What do you think of when you hear "Australia"?
This is not very creative, but I honestly picture kangaroos when I think of Australia.
11. What are your plans for this weekend?
I actually have no plans for this weekend. Crazy, huh?
12. Can you say the alphabet backwards?
I might be able to say the alphabet backwards.
13. Do you have a maid service clean your house?
No, but someday I will.
14. Do you use the word 'hello' daily?
I'm pretty sure that I do.
15. Name something that has made you angry.
I don't feel angry, but I am hurting over some things. I'll get over it, though.
16. Do you like cats?
I love cats. They are soft and beautiful, but I can't stand having them in my house.
17. Last CD played?
Melody and I listened to One Direction this morning while we she practiced driving.
18. Have you ever dated someone twice?
Back in high school, I dated one person twice, which was a mistake. I ran into the future king right after that.
19. Do you want to change your name?
I can't think of anything better than the name that I already have.
20. Last interesting thing you read?
I'm reading a Beverly Lewis book that Melody gave me for Mother's Day.
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