Miscellaneous Ramblings From My Home to Yours

• This past Tuesday my oldest was awarded his Tiger Badge. He also got a few beads, 3 elective beads, and his weather belt loop and pin. They played a game at the meeting...blowing ping pong balls across the floor in a relay. Mine did not play. I don't blame him at all, and when his dad started trying to talk him into playing I told him to stop. I would never, in a million years play that game. It made me anxious just watching. And when I was six being forced to partake would have sent me into hysterics.


• On the topic of scouts....I am very thankful for the wonderful cubmaster we have who talks to my son and completely ignores the fact that he is glaring, staring at the floor or itching to run and hide.


• We worked on our phonogram lapbook this morning....my son has gotten a lot better at the dough, enough, through....words. But had trouble deciding if certain words ending in -ed sounded like -t or -d. And when it comes down to it, apparently so do I....there were supposed to be 4 of each (ed, d, or t) and when we sorted them all there were 4, 2 and 6...so when choosing the words I must not have pronouced correctly. Oops.


• The highlight of the afternoon was cutting open the apple for lunch and finding all the seeds had sprouted tails. We planted all of them and they are in the window sill with the numerous seedling wating to be planted.


• Today was a very rainy day, and I had 3 muddy boys who forgo taking a bath tonight.


• And finally, I am done on the computer because my eye hurts....I am a very graceful person. You know the type who can't walk through a doorway without hitting it first, or the type to bruise her finger for 4 months by dropping a can of fruit on it. Back to my eye....during the dinner mayhem of everyone screaming at me, including the baby at my feet...I went to pick him up and hit my eye on one of our dining room chairs. It is swollen and bruised.....