Insomnia

Well, it's 4:45 am. I've been laying awake since about 4am and finally decided to get up, thinking maybe if I'd read a little it would make me want to go back to sleep. But here I am, updating instead.

I have a dr. appt this morning. It's just a port flush so I didn't count it when I posted earlier about no doc visits for 3 months. I have to get the port flushed monthly so it doesn't clog up. It only takes about 1 minute but I've always had to get lab work also and they make you wait for the results of that before doing anything else - that takes about an hour. We started school last week so I'll just take some of the stuff I've been preparing and work on it while I wait.

As most of you probably know we homeschool. We started last week because we like to get in our full 3 semesters before Thanksgiving then we take off the entire holiday season. This way we get to really focus on the holidays and making crafts, going places and pretty much just get to enjoy the time. Public school starts back Aug 7 so really we're only a few weeks ahead of them. We pick back up at the first of the year and are finished in May.

Katie will test at the end of this year - her first real test - so we will cover a lot. I don't really worry about passing or failing in general because I don't believe that just because the public school guru's decided that children must know about magnets in the first and third grade, that children REALLY must know about magnets. I believe that kids are naturally curious and when they question things...that's when you really have their attention and it's perfect timing to teach on those things. I guess we want to do good on the test for the same reason everyone else does, so we can say, "see, they are learning." In reality, they're learning daily, regardless of that grade.

Katie is a pretty good reader but David wants no part of it. He'll sound out the words but only if made to. On the other hand Katie questions herself and has little confidence in math, yet David likes it and has no problem blurting out the answer. He's also a little experimenter. Like most boys, he loves to take things apart just to see how they work. Mom bought us an electric pencil sharpener at a thrift store or yard sale and it doesn't work so great - gets jammed and basically does nothing. David keeps wanting to take it apart to work on it. I just keep reminding him not to put his fingers in there!

OK...so typing for the last 15 minutes has not made me tired. I think I'll go make some coffee and honey toast. By the way...has anyone had "Really Raw Honey"? It's sooooo good. If you like honey and believe in its benefits, try it! It's a bit more pricey than normal, but well worth it.

OHHHHH, yesterday...........I went to church without my scarves on! I stopped and bought some headbands so I don't look like a boy and just because it is still so very short. Everyone said it was so cute, I know it wasn't...but it's a start. It's 90 degrees and I'm tired of wearing the scarves. And I have to make these first steps sooner or later. I can't wait to have hair again. It looks as though it will still be very thin on top but the back part looks pretty good.

I will just be thankful.

New Bloggin' Colors

Ok...so the pink is gone and so goes the "all things cancer" talk. I'm sure I'll comment about it in general but I don't want it to be the overall theme of this blog. For now, my treatments are minimal, nothing going on for a few months so I'd like to just blog about whatever, whenever. Of course all my previous post and some of the data will stay just for info purposes but I'm moving them to a less prominent space or atleast I'll begin moving them as I find more stuff to put in it's place. I know a lot of you are using my space pages but I just haven't got that comfie feeling there yet.

And Penni...I still haven't been over there to your page or to check my own page and become "a friend." I'm assuming I have to go to my own page and you will have sent me an invite??? Ya'll just gotta bear with me on that one. I've been on the my space site twice, once with Brian showing me his friends and once when I created my name. That was all I could do. I didn't find it user friendly at all. Of course, it could have been the chemo...I was telling Debbie in an email today that my chemo brain is in fact going away and I'm becoming much more of my ol' sure self, much to the dismay of Dave (heehee) but if I was still in chemo brain mode when something was said, all that stuff didn't come back so when you invited me to your page, I forgot to go.

So all that being said, here comes some new stuff...positive stuff. I probably won't think of a thing to say. But hey...you can take the hubby/wife test at the top of the page!