Ten on Tuesday
Tuesday, June 18, 2013 at 05:54PM 1. First and foremost, please join me in congratulating my awesome friend, Kaitlin, in the release of her new line at Carta Bella! Yay!!
2. The younger two started swim lessons yesterday. It's mostly just a review for Asher...a refresher course to get the summer off to a strong start and work on technique a bit. Micah's still...um, honing. ;)
3. Micah randomly informed me the other day that when he has trouble falling asleep he finds that thinking about soap helps. True story.
4. My computer is dying. We're pretty sure the fan in the laptop (an older ThinkPad) has stopped working...as evidenced by its random decisions to turn itself off. (Yeah, that's fun.) The optical drive also no longer reliably works, so I can't play dvds in it while I'm working on other things. ;) So. Thanks so some lovely inheritance monies, we bit the bullet and bought a new set up. It arrived today. Yay!
5. Which means, of course, that I've been working on rearranging stuff in my office once again...because the new set up is a different size than the old set up...which requires moving things. Bleh.
6. This also means that Nathan has seized the opportunity to make me get a new office chair (one that's the right height ergonomically for me). I apparently have horrible posture when I sit at my desk (cross-legged) and it bothers him. ;) So. We hit the CSU Surplus Sale last weekend in search of office chairs, but only came away with a couple skirts, some organizer things that I have yet to find a use for and a geography game that I'd actually had my eye on for awhile. ;)
7. We just took a family bike ride. Ice cream was involved. Hooray for summer!
8. Course, before the bike ride, we still had school work. We're on our last bit for this month, will take a week or two off and then will hit three more weeks before "officially" finishing this school year. Oy. I think we're all pretty ready to start a new year. Not that we actually get a big break or anything since we school year round. But. Two weeks off before starting the next school year seems lovely and far away...
9. Speaking of which, I'm working this summer on creating the boys' assigned reading lists for the coming year. I'm trying to read a bunch of the books to make my decisions and get a bit ahead of them (as I try to read them all before I assign them). I could definitely use some help, folks. Seriously, please, please shout out any book recommendations for 3rd, 5th and 7th grade boys...boys who tend to greatly favor machines and war stories over anything having to do with animals and who don't mind non-fiction in the least. (Asher would actually like to just read the encyclopedia of WWII air machines but I've informed him that we must have a bit more balance, lol.)
10. Really. I'm asking for recommendations. It deserves another mention. ;)
Thanks!
Reader Comments (2)
So I'm probably the last person who should make a recommendation, but I really liked Wonder (Palacio). It's a preteen type book, heard about it on 2peas. And thought it was a great message.
Crystal Cave, Once and Future King, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and Ender's Game were my boys favorites. Also, To Kill a Mockingbird. I hear the Percy Jackson series is good too.