lesson planning.

(note: i wrote this yesterday afternoon.  it is getting posted this morning.  shut up.  i almost died last night.  but that is another blog entirely.)

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so we finally got started on week eight today.

at four thirty in the afternoon.

but i digress.

the point is, we made it through the first day.  i'm not sure what exactly made today so flippin' hard, but yeah.  it was. like trying to brush a baby dinosaur's teeth.  while driving a hovercraft.  in a snowstorm.  while heavily sedated.

okay, so maybe i'm exaggerating.  a smidge.

anyway, after we got the boring things like ACTUAL LEARNING out of the way, mommy got to sit down and lesson plan.

this is all part of my new idea: finish lesson planning during the week so i won't have to do it on sunday afternoon, thus avoiding the upsetting of the hubby by my emotional absence. 

and while i was doing this, i realized two beautiful things.

would you like to know what they are?  of course you do.

first.  next week is week nine.  which, because i went to public school and all, is sort of a magical number when related to school.  it means the first quarter is over.  it means that we have officially made it 1/4 of the way through the year.

we made it!

except for not yet.

second.  i realized.  that i am.  almost two weeks ahead in lesson planning.

it made me all excited and giggly because usually i am all way behind and i have no idea what we're doing the next week until the night before.  it's AWESOME to be able to kind of see things all connected and feel pretty secure that no matter what else we're doing next week, school will be a part of it.

because the folders say so.