On line Journal, eh?

So, why not... I guess I'll give this a go.

Hello!  I've had many nick names over the years, but I prefer Taura :)  I'm good with Bubblie, too. :)

I'm a homeschooling mother of one VERY willful child who has made it a life's goal to try all threads of my patience.  :) 

We're currently trying an on line math program to which I had to subscribe to allow Aria to use with unlimited time.  I figured, it wouldn't hurt to try it for one month.

I'm struggling with keeping her motivated in general.  We come back to this every year - sometimes 2-3 times a year lol....   I shouldn't be surprised, but DAMN it's times like these that I think "UGH Public school would be SO MUCH EASIER!!!!!!"... Then I remember why public school would be bad ... because it's so much easier...   It's like falling into a trap of laziness.  You put your kids in public school and then you get sucked into the ease of it.  You're no longer responsible for them for a little more than half their waking hours!  You only have to make sure they eat before and after school , do their homework, bathe, brush teeth and get them in bed for school the next day.  Rinse, repeat.  Weekends, you shove them outside to play or turn on the TV to keep them out of your hair. 

In school, they are told to keep quiet and for most of the day sit and focus on their school work.  Day in and day out... school work... and disruptions, ... exposure to diseases....  Bullies, peer pressure, drugs, guns, theft,  teen age pregnancy, STDs  - and watching only the most extreme cases get punished. 

After our move, I was considering putting Aria in public school here, but then I was told it was the second worst school in the whole state.  And so, we homeschool still to this day.  I'm a little grayer... I have a big bottle of asprin and some tylenol ...   I'm now drinking coffee once in a while, too.  Actually, Will calls it a little bit of coffee with my creamer.  What can I say? I don't generally like coffee.  Coffee Icecream... yum... Black coffee... all bitter.. yuk... I'm a milk chocolate kinda gal, too, so ya...   Dark Chocolate is only if I'm desperate. 

I am an animal lover!  I .. LOVE ... animals.  Almost all kinds I'm rather fond of.  I don't care to be killed by one, so no, I don't go near the lethal ones :). 

Sadly, I will never do animal rescue again.  It was too sad and frustrating for me to handle.  We had to have one put down for a terminal illness, and we weren't able to adopt the bulk of the animals out.  Keeping them all just wasn't working.  They wound up going to other shelters ....  It still bothers me and I prefer not to talk about it much.  Other than to say, I wish people gave animals more consideration and took better care of them and didn't dump them off when the reality of being a pet owner set in. 

I have a little white, orange and peach shadow.  I hand raised her.  She used to be white with flame point markings and it wasn't until last year that I realized that she REALLY darkened with age!  She's more peach than white now, the flame point markings are darker orange.  She's still cross eyed, though, and has trouble seeing.  I take good care of her (like all of our animals) and she's happy (like all of our animals lol).  They're a GREAT source of stress relief! 

I ... LOVE .... music.  I can't emphasize that enough!  I love listening to it, I love singing and singing along with music, I love playing instruments, and I recently learned that I REALLY REALLY love repairing violins lol..   I'm having fun with it.  I can totally see myself getting other old violins and refurbishing them and reselling them.  I guess we'll see :)  I need a lot more training, though.  The research has been very interesting!  :)

I like loads of various arts, crafts, etc.  I with I had time and energy for more, but I try to squeeze projects in here and there.

I think that's all for now... I am so tired.  :) Not enough sleep + too much work = zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz