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I’ve been engaged for twelve days

And we have a date set, the location and the deposit down, caterer, our photographer, and now…a wedding dress!!

I had no idea that this whole weddin’ plannin’ stuff was so INVOLVED with lots of DECISIONS.

I had already decided that I would say yes if Scott asked me to marry him, because we were talking about marriage, we knew this was right. And after so much in our lives, and so much hesitancy to get married again on both our parts, it’s really amazing to just say, “My god, I love this person so much and I am already his partner, of course we should signify that with a ceremony of something.” There’s no pressure, no other influences, just happy. I just didn’t know last weekend was going to be the weekend he proposed.

So when he suggested we go to Memphis for the weekend, I was all in. It’s something we usually do several times a year and we love it there. He said, let’s get the Peabody Hotel…great! lets! And then we drive to Memphis, check in, and chill out a bit in our room, and then he says, “So, I got you a present.”

I’m like, “Oh! That’s so nice!” And I’m thinking, awww, he brought me our favorite candy bar.

Instead it was a ring. A GORGEOUS ring with super sparkly pavé diamonds on either side of a beautiful solitaire that suited me perfectly. And a loving, handsome man asking me to marry him. Yes!

My second decision was that I was absolutely going to wear a fascinator. Oh yes I am. My new girl child, his daughter, already has hers picked out :)

Next came all the rest. Holy moly, we have to think of so many details for a SMALL wedding. I haven’t even considered them all and I’m overwhelmed. But it’s a pretty happy problem to have, no?

“Tinkerbell” Movie Gets Thumbs up from Teenage Boys

Why yes, my two teenage boys are watching “Tinkerbell” on their own, no sisters around. They actually are enjoying themselves here! They’re even debating the way fairies are made (baby giggles) and the history of Tinkerbell’s life. They have deemed that Wendy is a boring character, but the fairies DO something and are interesting.

I love this, that they don’t even think not to watch it here. Now at their dad’s, they’d be ridiculed because he’s a dick like that sometimes. But Daniel says he gets around this by asking his six year old sister, “Hey, wanna watch “Tinkerbell”? He looks like an amazing big brother (he is), and gets to get in his happy, pretty cartoon fix.

I love mothering boys.

Newsy!

He asked.

I said yes!

JAZZ HANDS ALL AROUND!!

Anne’s Baby!

Raquita took newborn shots of Anne’s new baby, Miles, and oh mah god people. Gorgeous. I mean, the baby is gorgeous (just look at his toes sticking out!), but Raquita’s images of him are stunning. She says more of him are going up tomorrow. Yay!

Men:Default; Women:Other

I don’t need to look hard to find sexist shit to fill my day, but sometimes it’s just delivered to my mailbox for me.

I got a(nother) letter from Cambridge Who’s Who saying that WOOT! You are appointed as a candidate to the Cambridge Who’s Who Registry Among Executive and Professional Women. See that, only among the women. I know this is a scam, since to get on the registry that will do you no good, you have to cough up hundreds of dollars.

But what strikes me is that when you google this, you quickly realize that men get on the Cambridge Who’s Who Among Executives and Professionals. Not Executive and Professional Men…no, no, silly, just Executives and Professionals.

Because executives and professionals are by default, male. They don’t need a special category like us womens do, what with us being all cute by trying to work.

Homeschooling: Hey. It’s kind of working.

I pulled Daniel out of school after his classes were over on April 27th. April 28th was his first day home. We did nothing. Virtually nothing. He started a school break at that point, because everything I read on the Internet told me that if you have a reluctant kid, nay, a very argumentative not-gonna-do-it kid, then you will have exactly that kind of kid when you start homeschooling.

Do not want.

Since we now do everything the Internet tells us to do, ever since the pool incident, we went with the Internet.

Except that we didn’t…exactly. Because I have to be contrary, too. Boy got it from somewhere, right? The Internet told us that a child needs one month off for every year in school. For Daniel, that would be NINE MONTHS. I could have a whole new kid by that amount of time!

I couldn’t do it, it was probably the right thing and I know he would have caught up academically, but it caused me pain to think of him waiting nine months. I’m a t.e.a.c.h.e.r, I can’t handle the breaks! I made my sister play school when she thought I was the biggest eight year old asshole on the planet and was so not interested in playing school. I MADE HER.

PLAY SCHOOL, DAMMIT! DO IT. ARrrrrrghh, why don’t you do anything I tell you!!

Why yes, I was a ball of super fun!

So, Daniel did not take a nine month break, but a two-ish week one. Here’s the bookstuffs we’re using:

Math: Math-U-See
I’m starting him on very low level math so he can build confidence and relearn some really missing key concepts. Like multiplication. But in two days, he’s on week four, so he’s moving quickly and getting the concepts down more concretely. This program uses manipulatives that look like Legos.

Communication Arts: Easy Grammar, Grade 9
So far, it’s fine. It assumes you know things, though. But I do know these things, so we work them out together when he has any issues. And it’s only a page a day, with multiple concepts on one page. Very do-able for a kid who hates this stuff.

Earth and Space Science:Some shitty science workbook found at Barnes and Noble…I’m still looking.
A workbook is fine, but not all that interesting for him. Did you know that any book geared toward homeschooling science has got a 98% chance of teaching Evangelical Christian creationism. I’m fine with teaching creationism, in a Philosophy class, where we teach every body else’s creationism, too. In a science class, what a ridiculous idea.

Reading: Painless Reading Comprehension and something he wants to read, right now he’s reading, “The Last Olympian.”

Social Studies: Painless American History.
It’s easy to read, covers a broad amount of material without ignoring Native American Indian history or African American history. So far, he is actually enjoying it and this was his most hated class.

Japanese: Read and Speak Japanese for Beginners
He likes this one a lot, he chose to do this class and he’s way into it. We’re moving very slowly through the workbook, and using some exercises as tests. He’s also made flashcards and is using some of the terms. This, for me, is far more about him enjoying something and being successful than it is about him nailing the grammar of Japanese. We’ll get there.

These are his core classes, he’s also doing Tech Education, Home Ec, and Art throughout the week, and P.E. every day in some form of physical activity. Yesterday, swimming with his friends, today mowing the lawn.

But he’s doing the work, he’s not knocking it, he’s not fighting with me too much. I don’t know if in two months we’ll love the materials we’re using, but it’s a start.

A Super Cool Thing

My sisters have both pregnant these past several months, Anne and Lindy. Yay!

Anne had her baby this week.

OH YES, SHE DID.

And he’s beautiful, welcome Miles Jacob :) Your parents are hilarious.

Bakery Sadness

It is not a good sign when you google “bakeries” and your zip code and for five pages you get mall cookie shops.

Gimme good bakeries!

Yes, THAT’S IT

I sometimes try to explain why sexism is such a major thing with me, why I get so fucking worked up over what seems to be small slights to a man.

And wouldn’t you know, Delagar did that for me. GO READ!

Dear Pool Store Guys

Why yes, in fact you CAN convert a Baquacil pool to a Chlorine pool in a few days, rather cheaply, without draining the pool. Even though you said it was impossible, the internets said otherwise and we went with the internet. And it worked.

Suck on that.

Here’s how we just did it:
http://www.troublefreepool.com/pool-school/baqua_chlorine_conversion

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