RainDrop Refections

Well the past week has been slow and well not what we expected.

Monday was slow all we did was school and daily chores. Which was fine after a busy weekend. However Boo had a really bad day. She is so strong willed at times that it makes life challenging. Thing is it makes it challenging for her as well. She just can't give up even when she knows she is wrong. So she got herself in lots of trouble and grounded for 2 days. She lost everything TV, computer, even her art stuff. Now that ticked her off.

Tuesday, well Boo had another bad day but this time got herself under control a little bit faster. However she still had to miss her Girl Scout meeting. That was really sad because it was her first official meeting as a Junior Girl Scout and the last meeting of the school year.

Wednesday was pretty much the same just school. Everyone one was very productive that day. I was so proud of everyone. Snoopy had a great handwriting day with his spelling words. He had to show everyone. He even had me text a picture to Daddy!

The Man of the House has been doing a side project for another company. Things have been getting ready to go live. Of course with computers that means there must at least one major problem before that happens. He has worked late on it for the better part of the last 2 weeks. Monday he did not get home until after one in the morning. Tuesday it was after 8:30pm. He told me that night he was not feeling good. Wednesday he went to work and came home about 9pm, he was SICK by then, I knew it and he knew it.

Thursday The Man of the House stayed home and Pooh Bear got up feeling bad as well. Boo, Snoopy and I went upstairs to get school work going thinking Pooh would follow. Nope she didn't. By noon I was feeling crappy myself. We shut down school for the day. Knowing that we had Girl Scout Adventure Camp for the Cadet girls and up. We were taking the whole family, they camped down the way from the Girl Scouts. We needed to get the three us sicky ones better.

Friday was no better. The Man of the House come home at 2pm feeling worse than ever, and his cough was horrible. I was still trying to get things done to go camping. He had said that morning he would be staying home and to leave Snoopy with him. I was going to take all the girls with me. By the time he came in I had decided to wait until Saturday morning to try to go. I was still feeling really bad.

A rough round of storms were moving through the area, so the Girl Scouts decided to wait and go up Saturday morning too. By late evening The Man of the House had put his foot down and told me I was not to go with the Scouts. Neither one of us could afford to stay sick or get any sicker. He did not have to tell me twice. I was really sick cause I will camp with the Scouts no matter what. I have done it with a broken arm, bad knee, just a day after getting off crutches. I am a serious Scout camper.

The rest of the weekend was pretty much the same. I do not think I got out of bed for more than an hour at a time. Both The Man of the House and I were shut down. He watched TV on the living room floor dozing in and out. I was in the bed watching TV doing the same thing. Pooh Bear was on the couch on her computer most of the weekend. By Saturday evening she was mostly over it, but still moving slow.

Here it is Monday morning Pooh is doing good. The Man of the House is off to work, and sounds much better. I am moving, all be it slow, it is still moving. I am thanking God at this point we were the only 3 that have gotten sick.

We have a slow week again. Only one evening activity this week, a recital for Bo ba houng. One appointment for Pooh to see the dentist today, and we are done. Ready for a quite week of study and maybe a trip to the library towards the end of the week.

Monday's Book Review

Christina Dodd has written some where around 40 books. I just recently found her books. If I remember correctly I read Rules of Engagement first. I am unsure since I got it from the library, I have read it just not sure if it was the first.

Once again one of the things I love about Ms. Dodd's books is that many are interlinked by characters. Rules of Engagement is part of the Governess Brides series.

Danger in a Red Dress is based on the illegitimate sons of millionaire, of the Fortune Hunter series. The characters are well developed and easy to get to know. Ms. Dodd gives you just enough information to keep you guessing on what the out come of the suspense part of the book will be.

The romance seems to be building just under the surface then in a matter of pages you see a huge change. The rest of the book keeps you guessing on when and if the romance will come back.

Monday's Book Review

I am making a deal with Pooh Bear. She and I are going to start reading more classics. As a homeschooling mom, I must admit that my reading list is not very extensive when it comes to the classics. Do not get me wrong I love to read, but what I read is more romance and mystery, written by contemporary authors. Pooh has gotten in the the vampire love stories. (I admit, I am a total Twilight mom and that is what has gotten her interested.)

I have decided to undertake the challenge of reading more classics. (No, War and Peace is not on the top of the list.) We are going to start out slow. Pooh has read Dracula. I encouraged it as a way to show her how the genre started. I gave her the illustrated children's classic book, knowing it was below her level, hoping she would feel accomplishment of reading it. She was not at all interested she told me, yet spent 2 days straight every spare minute reading the book and finished it. She still proclaimed she did not like it. Who knows what goes through the mind of a 13 year old girl.

Mondays I plan to post a book review of something we have either read for our school lessons or something I have read. My goal is to read a classic and post my thoughts on it once a month.


I am going to start with one of my favorite authors, Julie Garwood. I read The Gift, when I was 16 and fell in love with her writing style. I have not lost my enchantment with her writing. I love to read stories about Victorian England and the Highlands of Scotland. When Ms. Garwood moved on to the old west with For the Roses. I was unsure but fell in love with them as well. When she went to contemporary, with Heartbreaker I was unsure once again. Again she hit a home run!

One of the things I love is that her characters from her Victorian era and Highlands era are the ancestors of the contemporary characters. Several of her books are linked by the characters of a family. As you meet the families of the characters they become the main characters in the next book. From that you still get to see how the first characters are still developing. Kind of gives you the feel that you are reading their continuing story.