"Mommy! I did it all by myself!"

The thrill of mastering the towel wrap. She has asked me for a couple of years now to wrap her hair up after showers/tubby time just like I wrap mine. She has never been able to wrap it, flip it, and have it hold--until last Sunday. She was so excited, and it was so cute! It flashed me back to when I was little--I'm not sure of the age, but I remember being equally entranced by my mom's towel wrap. I also remember working on it and being thrilled when I finally mastered it. I absolutely LOVE being this little girl's mom! Check back with me in 9 years or so...that may change drastically. ;)

We're in full swing on homeschooling and having a great year so far. I've stepped up the work level quite a bit this year, as she's definitely more ready and able to keep up. I am using the book, "The Well-Trained Mind", as a guideline in my curriculum development. I'm trying to mix a very rigorous classical education with unschooling concepts--if you can make sense of that! So like me to try to make to opposite extremes work together, huh? I'm good with extremes, though. It's the middle of the road stuff I've never mastered. :D It seems to be a good fit for us at this time, and the beauty of homeschooling is that, if it isn't working well, I can just modify it. One of my coworkers said today that trying to home school my little one must drive me crazy. I am so happy to say that it doesn't. I LOVE it. She LOVES it. We are having so much fun learning and exploring together. I am only sad that I wasn't able to do this with Dej. It is a LOT of work, and I do mean a lot. Sometimes I don't necessarily feel thrilled about creating another set of story problems or scrambled words, but it is so worth it, and the fun of working with her more than makes up for the yucky parts.

My poor little Lila kitten's problem eye has taken a turn for the worse. We will be going to the vet tomorrow for, what seems to be, my weekly visit. You know it's bad when most of the people at my very busy vet clinic recognize my voice over the phone and even know all of my cats by name/color/recurrent health problem(s). I look forward to the day that I don't have to see or talk to them for at least a month. Someday. Maybe.