Seems just a few weeks ago I was posting about solitude, my students were off for the summer adventures and I will likely in the quiet office. Well.....the entire summer has passed, my students and staff are all back inside these walls, and I have no idea where the time has gone?!I was actually going through some of my old blog posts looking for pictures of the library project that B did when we were homeschooling. Now I want to go back to homeschooling!! We did some fun things!!!!!! Many of the pictures with him in them made me smile - such a cute boy. And now.....a young man. Let me give you a little update on my favorite home school student (and one of my favorites in the building). B is a senior - yes a senior. Expected graduation is June 9th. He is currently 16, 6'3" tall and charming as they come - until he opens his mouth. Like most teenagers, he's got a little bit of an attitude. He is 1/3 of the way through drivers ed and bought his own car about 2 months ago. I call it a piece of junk painted red, but he loves her. She's a 1959 Jeep Willys with a 1966 327 corvette engine. When she came home she dripped oil, which has been fixed and I bought B a new front end for his 16th birthday. It is now sitting covered up because the child's line of credit is at the limit and now his baby needs clutch work. Ahhh, the joys of a valuable lesson.
Ain't she pretty?!
Boy will probably get in trouble with this!
Happy Kid!
Learned to drive it on the first day, AND how to push it when there is a bad battery connection and you can't get it started.
So where does the time go???? It goes to having a job, which I frankly still haven't adjusted to and if I worked a 'normal work week' might be a little easier but that is not the job that I have. It goes to finishing raising this boy that lives with me. It goes to laughing, and rushing, and grocery shopping and learning new things. It goes to thinking up new ideas and sometimes just getting through the day because I am dead, butt draggin' tired. I'm grateful that I have a job that I love, a kid that keeps me on my toes and many, many good people in my life. Do I sometimes wish I could slow it down, wish for solitude and some peace - oh yeah!! But I don't even know what that would look like or feel like. Today....which is a Sunday and I'm at work, I'm just glad I can keep doing what I do. Life changes, and so far I've been able to handle changing with it.
