Resignation

There are some things I've just come to accept.  I will probably always be a few minutes late for work.  Laundry will always be my nemesis.  My current group of sixth-graders will talk to a wall if it gives them the chance to talk.  

There are some things, however, that I realized could change if I seek out some sort of help. One of those is finances.  After struggling with Toby to come up with a system that works for us, we resigned our stubbornness and compromised with a program through church.  So far, so good. We're certainly not in the clear, but at least we're on the same page and have a common language to use to get us to the place we need to be, eventually. 

The other is  weight.  So, once again, I'm joining the WW bandwagon.  The meetings start tomorrow.  I guess water consumption will be on the rise, and the remainder of the 11 dozen cookies will be walking out the door with Toby tomorrow.  

Learning verified

So, I ended my last post (*cough*fivemonthsago*cough*) talking about learning from others. So I did.  I had this silly idea that I had to have pictures to go with my posts so I've been less than diligent about posting, because I'm less than diligent about getting pictures uploaded to photo sharing sites, or even off my camera.  Anyway, thanks Amber, for showing me how it can be done.

Not only have I learned, but I watched my daughter learn today.  Something so tiny, so mundane, but so easy to see that a real transfer of knowledge had happened.  And I find it marvelous. Merica was playing with a pin cushion (yeah, yeah, spare me the lecture) and in the process of taking all of the pins out, my aunt offered her a magnet to pick them all up.  Which mostly worked (there were a few aluminum pins that wouldn't play along.)  About four hours later, she dropped one and couldn't find it, so she went to the fridge, found a magnet and started "sweeping" the floor.  Ingenuity at its finest.  There's a reason her progress report looked stellar.