Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Tornado on Decimal Street

This will probably only be funny to Mrs. J and maybe one other person, but, oh well, I need to write things down if they're to be remembered AT ALL.

We're using Math-U-See Primer for SK's Kindergarten math. We've been learning place value these few weeks. Thanks to Lauren, we have a large (almost poster size), laminated "Decimal Street" on which to place the manipulative blocks. There are three "houses" on the street: units, tens and hundreds. The exercise goes, that he looks at a written number, such as 257, and then "builds" the number by placing the correct number of blocks on the correct house.

During this same time, he had watched multiple episodes of Storm Chasers with KiSA. I shouldn't have been surprised then, when in the middle of a math lesson, a "tornado" hit decimal street and scattered all the blocks out of the houses.

When the creator of this curriculum aimed for interactive, I'm not sure this is what he had in mind.

Saturday, October 23, 2010

Something I Don't Miss At ALL

Have you ever asked God to heal you? And you told Him, "I'll never forget, and I'll never stop telling everyone what you've done?"

Well, on Tuesday, KiSA and I were discussing this pregnancy and I realized--it's gone: The Pain. In fact, it hasn't been there AT ALL.

The pain I refer to was the constant, excruciating ache of ligaments and bones that liked to fight with each other, and scar tissue that sharply announced its presence. It accompanied both of the earlier pregnancies, the second one especially. It was so debilitating that it was one of the main reasons I wanted to delay pregnancy. Actually, I was terrified of it.

And this time, it's completely absent. I caught myself playing tag with the boys in the yard. At 25 weeks. As I was telling a friend about it Wednesday morning, she asked what I had done for the pain. Answer? Nothing. It's nothing I've done. It's all God, and His mercy.

So now, I'm telling. Now you know. He is GOOD.

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Cheese

We were still tonight just long enough for KiSA to catch us on camera. These kiddos are careening toward six and three years old, which continually stuns me. How we love 'em.