Posted on 03/14/2002 5:07:26 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
Taking away his Playstation made a major point. His school provides an "Agenda" for all students. Basically a day-timer with important school info, calendar, etc. We are now requiring that he show it to his teachers every day to make sure he has written his assignments down correctly. Then we sign it every night.
It's been a little difficult getting off to a good start with the school year. My wife handles most of that because he's home at 2:30 and I'm not home until almost six most days. But with her new teaching schedule, we've been inconsistent. I think we have a handle on things now.
At least he knows we're serious about this.
Get it?
Mum's the word.... you know like being quiet....not saying anything? In otherwords I think Corin is being perfectly reasonable by not going.
Maybe I should have posted two mums side by side, or one of the Queen Mum and a chrysanthemum side by side....
Oh, I'm sorry Hair, it's been a very weird roller coaster day. But I don't think you need to worry about my sanity quite yet....
Sheesh! I thought you were just giving an example of another dysfunctional family!
LOL! Yeah, I can see how the queen mum staring at you out of the blue could be a little guilt inducing! She is the Queen Mum after all.....
But seriously, you don't have anything to worry about from me. I have been politely refraining from commenting about your family issues because, well, because I don't think it's any of my business, and I recognize that I wouldn't know any better way of coping than you are already doing. I dread the days my kids turn teenaged. My oldest just turned 11 and the younger one will be 9 in May. So when I hear people like yourself talking about those types of issues, I am all ears and very non-judgemental because I know I will be there soon myself. I just pray for the grace to be able to handle it capably when my turn comes. As I think you are doing now....
Thanks. Sometimes I feel like I'm the resident whiner in the Hobbit Hole. But then I get a lot of comfort and good advice from you guys.
Ouch, database class is painfully. Better yet, we have a test here next week. Still more wonderful, I have a test in Programming Languages that Tuesday! There goes my weekend. And think I was thinking of signing up for NaNoWriMo!
National Novel Writing Month, a bunch of my friends are doing it... hmm... actually, that's November, not this month, I think...
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This Text and Tune is often credited to Henry Carey, 1740, although there is controversy with many votes, including the British monarchy's, for anonymous. On official occasions, only the first verse is usually sung, and occasionally verse 3. The tune has been used by many countries for anthems and hymns. According to the French encyclopaedia, Quid, the music is by Giam Battista Lulli (Jean-Baptiste Lully in the French form). It was loosely based on a hymn sung when the (French) king arrived at an event, Domine Salvum Fac Regem. When Louis XIV was scheduled to open the educational institution at St-Cyr (1686), his mistress (later, queen), the Marquise de Maintenon, commissioned Lully to write the tune to be sung by the pupils as Dieu Protège le Roi. The French, apparently, did not use it again until 1745 at which time the Old Pretender, claiming to be King James III of England, was organising his rebellion from France (he lived at St-Germain-de-Laye). Madame de Maintenon presented him with the words and music as his National Anthem. (It is not clear who wrote the English words but the implication is that Mme de Maintenon either wrote them herself or commissioned them.) The song was sung for the first time in Britain when Bonnie Prince Charlie landed in Scotland. There are apparently some legal testaments to this story.
I happen to be an Anglophile, having lived a (formative) year in England, but I also love the Scots, Irish, and Welsh... I would love to have the time to be able to write a novel. Well, okay, maybe the talent would be nice too.... Go for it Jen!
But to find the time! Alas, time is money, as they say, and my family needs the money, and they need my time as well. But I really would love to find out sometime just what those nuggets would be.....
Tell me mo! Tell me mo! (how/where do I find out?)
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