Friday, March 12, 2010.
It’s been an entire month since I last posted here (though I have posted at my personal blog), so I’ll need to try to remember everything to sum up the past 30 days. Things have been really crazy here, so I’ll just start with where I left off in our last blog post.
Christopher did not get to attend his Valentine’s party. In fact, except for his soccer practice and karate class, it’s been near impossible to get him together with his friends the past month. Bonnie’s emergency room visit, hospital stay, and operation all turned out for the best in the end- though at the time we were really worried. Her operation went okay, and she’s going to have more procedures done in the not too distant future, but hopefully the worst is behind.
Our projects and fun have varied. Christopher is working really hard on his schoolwork, especially his paragraph and essay skills. I had him doing some extra writing assignments, and his writing has improved dramatically. He’s written some great paragraphs and essays, poems (he loved that unit), and stories.
Yesterday, he wanted to earn more videogame time, so he suggested writing a short story. I’ve written some semi-scary stories, so he wrote a scary story. He even edited it himself.
Ta-daaa…
DREAM
She awoke with a start to the noise of someone knocking at her door. She opened the door. At the door, Shelie saw her friend. “Come on!”
She went with him. They saw the black car. She pushed the car on to the hill, got into it and they sped down the hill.
As they went down the hill she noticed that she could see through him. Her last thought, when the steering wheel turned, was that it was only a dream.
But it wasn’t.
*shiver* Spooky!
Also, I’d like to share a poem he wrote for school. I think he did a great job, and he wants me to enter this one in a local poetry contest!
Lightning of Heaven
Lightning is like a pole of fire
reaching down from heaven’s sky,
and when I see of course I climb it,
And then I ask, “Where is (pi)?”
Other things that happened in the past month include Doug taking Christopher to Chuck E. Cheese for some father-son time, a movie treat- “Avatar” in 3D, and I finished National Blog Posting Month (February-1 post daily in my personal blog). I’ve also finished several flash fiction stories, started others, written some poetry, started freewriting, and I’m sure something else was squeezed in there too but I can’t remember right now.
Christopher has been taking karate since last year, but he started soccer in February and his soccer practice lasts til the end of March. In Spring he’ll be taking football, which he’s a little nervous about, but its not tackle so I think he’ll have fun. He’s been practicing both karate and soccer moves at home, and we’re very proud of how hard he’s working.
During virtual school, I usually give him a 30 minute recess. He’s been playing in the snow, making snowmen, but now the snow is almost completely gone. He’s a little sad about that, but when he realized that it meant it was closer to time to go to Summer Camp he got excited again.
Well, that’s about it for now. Hopefully it won’t be another month before I get to post here again. Bye!