Month: November 2011

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Silver Roots

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Three weeks post-op, and I have graduated from Lounge Lizard to…well, I haven’t really graduated yet.  I’m still a Lounge Lizard.  As I told my dad the other day, I FEEL better than I really am.  There are moments that I actually feel normal.  But give me a little while on my feet, and my abs and back start complaining and groaning.  I’m not sure how much of this weariness and muscle pain is due to the surgery, being out of shape, or fibromyalgia.  It’s probably a combination.  But the pain responds well to rest, heat, and a little Tylenol. … Continue reading Silver Roots

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Sibling Rivalry

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W-O-W.  That’s my overall impression today after beginning Beth Moore’s James Mercy Triumphs Bible Study.  It has been at least six years since I participated in a formal Bible Study.  Then I started homeschooling, and the clock grew wings and flew right out the window.  I did my own study these past two years, reading the Bible through chronologically, and I’m not going to stop doing that because there is value in looking at the big picture. Every time I read a passage, the words on the page just come alive, and I find new insights.  When I participate in … Continue reading Sibling Rivalry

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Jabba the Couch

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From the looks of things, I am greatly improved, and my surgery was even more transforming than I thought possible! Princess Lea and I do have chains in common.  Although I’m thankfully not dealing with Jabba the Hut in my recovery, I do sometimes feel chained to Jabba the Couch.  Today I ventured off the couch for awhile, but I think I did too much.  Even if I have to say down all day tomorrow to pay for today, it felt freeing to: fold some clothes microwave my own lunch mix and bake (and eat) cookies clean up the cookie … Continue reading Jabba the Couch

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A Lounge Lizard’s Reality

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This is the Lounge Lizard, checking in fifteen days post-hysterectomy.  Don’t I look marvelous?  That surgery was truly transformational! I am doing well.  Still tired and occasionally achey, but rejoicing that I will never again have back labor pain every month.  I’m rejoicing that my chronic back pain is now intermittent, my complexion is great now that my skin isn’t oily anymore, and I finally put on makeup for the first time since my surgery.  Yesterday morning we had our family interview at the university-model school we’d like to enroll our daughter in come January.  It was my second outing … Continue reading A Lounge Lizard’s Reality

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Detailing my dream school

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If the country decided to make me the Education Guru Extraordinaire, I would make some mighty drastic changes to the current public education system, and I would start with removing the word “system” from the mentality. Children are not products produced in a factory.  Yet today’s methodology of education assumes that the students are the products.  Teachers are the factory workers, shaping the products.  Administrators are the managers deciding what shapes the products should become. Every product is given precisely thirteen years to maturate. The products pass quality inspections each year until finally they are stamped and herded out the … Continue reading Detailing my dream school