Thursday night

i am supposed to be at work at the moment. i was scheduled for a training tomorrow but it got cancelled tonight. Usually i work Thursday night, but in light of the training they gave me the night off. Then they cancelled the training and didn't bother to call anyone till 7:30 pm. It was then that i was told that i could either get forced into work or use benefit time. Circumstances as they are (i haven't slept yet today) i can't work. . . so i took the night off. i hope i actually have the benefit time to spend. It's all good. i am public enemy number one at work right now anyway.

Homeschooling - probably not actually one word, but then maybe it is. i should look into that. i am home the bulk of the daylight hours, but Amy (the educator) is still wholly in charge of the kids education. i just play proctor. i was never good at things like English, math. . .blah, blah, blah boring. Science, history, social studies,civics. . . now there is some fun learning.

Today with the freezing rain and sleet coming down, we decided to take advantage of technology in the house. James has been really key on bald eagles lately, so today we studied bald eagles. James wants to call the president and ask if we can rehabilitate and raise eagles. i think it's brilliant.

Christmas, the cultural bad habit seems to be coming slowly to the house this year. In fact Amy is not all that hip to getting a tree (though i may strongly disagree). Still we are thinking a lot about giving, and Jesus birth, and living in faith. It is a strange transition from the Christmases from my childhood. my greatest hope is that the kids really come to appreciate the light of Christmas more than celebrating Christmas-lite!