Found!

It had been missing for months. This status caused great distress and moments of upheaval when he would remember. Who would think that one little Sponge Bob VHS tape was so important? Well, it was to Samuel.

It seemed that whenever I was impossibly busy he would demand that I look for it. I tried; on all the usual shelves and in all the usual boxes. Then it was on to the unusual places: under the beds, under the couch, on top of the fridge. I tried turning the search into teachable moments for him. " Why don't you take a few minutes and look for it?" That was not what he wanted at all.

Finally, yesterday I heard a jubilant, "I FOUND IT!!!!" I immediately knew he was talking about the video, but I asked him, "What did you find?" "My Spongebob Nautical Nonsense VHS tape!" "Where did you find it?" "Right here!" (I had to laugh, I was in another room and had no way of knowing what he was talking about, but he did answer my question!) He had found it on the bottom of our coat closet. Videos are kept on a shelf in there and it must have fallen off.

"Well Samuel, I'm very proud of you, you were able to find your missing video all by yourself!" Now maybe he can help me teach his three year old sister to look for her own things as well!

The Absent Blogger

It has been quite a while since I posted regularly. Several things have contributed to this. One reason is that I have had an extraordinarily difficult time keeping up with the activity in my daily life. I enrolled two of my sons in a rather demanding homeschool curriculum this past fall. It proved to be very difficult to keep up with while having to continually customize Samuel's school work. In addition to that, last September I became Vice Chairman of our county's Special Education Advisory Committee. Granted, the demands of this position are not very great, but it did involve a monthly meeting, along with a few informal meetings or discussions with other members around that. Also, due to some activity that came up during the year I also served as the committee secretary. A new secretary had to be named and I came to realize that was really the position I wanted to serve in. So, now that's what I do. Again, it isn't all that involved but there is the responsibility of typing meeting minutes each month.

In addition to that, a good predictable bedtime for the kids has become a thing of the past in our household! Bedtime has always been a bit on the late side for our children because of Samuel's natural tendency to stay up late. Well, now his two younger siblings are used to that.. and my youngest has a hard time falling asleep on her own! On top of that, even though Samuel has finally mastered the required skills to change from his clothes to his pajamas, that doesn't always mean he is motivated to do so. I have come up with checklists, etc.. to take care of getting the school work done. Now I have to work on the same thing for the night-time routine! I would love to have my free time in the evening back, at an early enough time that I can stay awake to enjoy it!

Probably one of the biggest reasons for my lack of posting, however, is the advent of Facebook in my life. It is so difficult for me to sit down and write even just a few short paragraphs when I have gotten used to doing posts in two and three sentence blurbs! I went through a Facebook overload when I first joined it over the winter, but now I'm finding that my activity on it has leveled off a bit and I am hoping to post on this blog a little more regularly!