The Lesgaux School

 I am one of those people who routinely check out several bags of books from the library at a time. Early on, I found out what the check out limit was at our library. I was astounded to find out that it is 999. Most of the librarians don’t even know this factoid. Though I don’t check out that many, I often come home with around 50. Three kids, each of which needs books for school, books for pleasure, and a couple of different reading levels (independent, to read with Mama, and challenging).

My rule for buying is that if I check a book out 3 or more times, it goes on my buy list. When I have spare money, I go to that list to decide what to buy. For school books, I do check out many, but I buy an equal amount. I only go to Amazon if I can’t find a used copy elsewhere. I’m a big fan of Half Price Books. If it weren’t for the library, our homeschooling endeavor would come to a screeching halt.

Thanks to Audrey from A Small Corner of Nowhere for the impetus for writing this post.

In an effort to write more, I’ve decided to expand the focus of this blog. At first, I had planned to only post about school and school-related things, with a little home life thrown in. I now find  that I am continuously "writing" other blog posts in my head. In order to get these down, I plan to use this blog…for now. I thought of starting a new blog, but was at a loss as to what to name it. I will add new categories and write more of non-school related topics. Just blogging about school is boring to me. I’ll try not to get too personal, though. Enough for now.

D’s cast is off. The result… two weeks of itching and being very patient in exchange for NO BREAK! While I’m thankful that D’s arm is OK, I wish he didn’t have to go through that.

I, on the other hand have been suffering from the worst case of allergies ever. After two weeks of little to no voice and general misery, I went to the doc Monday, fearing a sinus infection. Nope. Just major allergies. But, I got to fill almost $50.00 worth of prescriptions, plus a copay for the doc. The over the counter meds just weren’t doing the trick. I now feel much better. Now I can catch up. I feel so much better.

In the meantime, the kids are feeling the effects of allergies, as our pollen counts soar and the weather moves back and forth from warm to cold.  We’ll all be doing preventative allergy meds until late February. I don’t want any more illness here.

As for school…nope. I’ve been like the walking dead, and so haven’t enforced much study. It’s been all I could do to get food and laundry done. T finished up his readings for Year 2, Term 3 (except for Robin Hood, which is waiting on my voice). I’ve ordered the books for Year 3, Term 1, set to begin in January. D is still in the middle of Year 2, Term 2. R is almost reading!

Not much here, except, oh, D is in a cast. He fell while climbing bluffs with his friends. The doc isn’t sure that it’s broken but wanted to cast it anyway since he was still in pain 3 days after the fall. The x-rays at the ER were negative for a break. The pediatrician took additional x-rays, and thought the elbow looked funny. He referred us to an orthopedist, who was the one who decided to cast it for two weeks.

D has been very stoic about this from the beginning. Other than crying right after it happened, he hasn’t let out a peep of complaint. He didn’t even cry at the ER. Today it all came out, though. He was very angry that he couldn’t climb a tree in the backyard and proceeded to try to take his cast off by himself. I had to restrain him for 30 minutes until he could stop trying to bump, bang and pull on his cast. Finally, through a flood of tears, he said that he was angry at the doctor for putting on the cast, angry at me for letting the doc put on the cast, and angry at the entire situation. I felt so bad for him. He has to have the cast on for 7 more days. UGH. I’ll bet money that it isn’t broken.