three day blog

My newest addiction is my mother's fault...she sent me the link to the Pirates of the Caribbean online game . I have to say, I enjoyed the movies tolerably well...and I am not wholly unaware of national talk like a pirate day... ...but, all in all, pirates aren't my thing. Wellllll ... weren't my thing. Now ....I am Rachel Bluemorrigan---captain of my own ships...a light sloop named Scarlet Rogue, and a galleon , the Red Queen. I am also a sometimes crew member on other people's ships as well as skillful with the sword and pistol. ....also, I'm a complete nerd.

I have to say that I was impressed how mature you guys were about my last post. I know some of you personally (and the rest internetally) so I know that you all run the gamut, politically speaking, and that all of you believe in the power of voting. Yet not one of you stooped to any low blows. I am proud of you guys seriously. A little update on the guy that sent me those emails... I wrote him the following email: Hi Xxxx, I hope everything is going well with you. I was wondering if you might remove me from getting the forwarded emails? Thanks so much and a pleasant rest of the week to you. Rachel Xxxxxx This was his response: Wow. I am sorry. I have a friend named Rachel Xxxxxxxx that asked me to forward some of these emails. I hope they did not offend you. I don’t even remember who you are. I am sure that was supposed to make me feel better. ha.... ha.... ha.... I just have to say shame on you Rachel Xxxxxxxx, whoever you are, for requesting those emails... you give the rest of us R...

So after a fun few hours in the hospital and multiple attempts at x-rays on a child who only stands on her tiptoes....we got a diagnosis. Irene has pneumonia! What do you mean this sounds familiar ??? You would think that I might take pity on her at a time like this and wouldn't make her talk or sing songs since she has lost her voice , right ? And now enjoy a song from Irene ( starr ing pneum onia) : Just a friendly little hint...you might need to turn the volume UP!!!

  Well I thought homeschool was going okay, but this morning Anthony asked me what language Archibald, from veggie tales, speaks.  When I told him english, he said  "eng...what?"     As Anthony's teacher....should I be worried?

I am not sure.... but I may have a slight problem with procrastination and follow through.... .

So I am doing this whole homeschool thing and I am really thinking... what's the big deal??? This is so easy. I don't get all the stress and complaining that I am hearing from other homeschool moms. This is a piece of cake! So I'll let you know how day two goes.

I am now embarking on year two of irrevocably ruining my son's academic career.  Otherwise known as:  Rachel does homeschool.  The program that I am doing consists of classes three days a week with an actual teacher with actual brains. He is taking creative writing, beginning piano, and beginning drawing. I am not sure...but we may be a little heavy on the creative side.  For academics, we are doing a curriculum called Calvert . I just received the box today and this thing has everything---down to the very pencils....so I guess I could have saved that $0.99 at Walmart. But my favorite thing is that there is a guide that tells me what everything is for. Thank goodness.  I hope it has pictures... ...and an instructional dvd... ....and a real live teacher.  The great thing is that all of t his is for free because we are getting the Calvert through an online academy that is a fully accredited public school. A public school without the evil influen...