What have I been up to, you ask? Well, a lot's been afoot the past couple of weeks. Not the least of which is my son graduating eighth grade and becoming a high schooler, officially. I am officially homeschooling a high schooler. Now I've got to think about transcripts and credits and accreditation and stuff for real. Oh lawd.
And the past two weeks have been rife with activity. Rife. With. Activity. Four end-of-year presentations, two graduation ceremonies (some of my students graduated this year), an awards ceremony, a homeschool-day outing, three last-days-of-school (with events), and parties. Sigh.
It's been great fun, but tiring.
And yes, I still took pictures. And videos.
Which brings me to a song that I like. A lot.
It's a song by The xx, called Basic Space. I've loved it for several months, along with several other songs by this group. But the title is quite a propos to this post, and my small blogging hiatus.
Squishy, my Macbook (her official name is Elaine. Long story...), has been sorely lacking in basic. space.
I literally worked on clearing space on her all of last week. And yes, I have an external hard drive, but I hadn't actually been about the business of deleting files off of my computer after I had backed things up. Soooo, I could not upload any videos or photos until I had done so. As it stands at the moment, I have done so enough to get ONLY Week Nineteen blogged this evening. Which means that I have some more deleting to do before I can blog Week Twenty. And I am actually ON Week Twenty-One. Gaaaahhh.
But I will be the most determined worker bee and get it done, and you will have Week Nineteen to read tonight. Yay.
In the meantime, I leave you with some other 'basic' things... basic goals of mine for this summer.
- make an art canvas with (or without) my son every one or two weeks
- get back to my regular art journaling that I was doing last summer
- make tons of great food utilizing as much of this magic sauce as I can
- walk off some pounds and get in better shape
- make music, then make more music
- read daily
- journal daily
- pray daily (though that is a perpetual goal/habit, not just for the summer)
- keep remembering. With Niki. Because as I've said before, I love remembering.
I hope all of you out there in Blogreaderland are gearing up for a splendiferous Memorial Day. Much love.
[Oh, and if you've never watched any of my weekly vlogs before, you won't want to miss Week Nineteen. It's in two parts, and it's the best one I have done so far. I talk about my wonderful Master's Academy students, and how God used them at the end of the year to bring healing to my heart. Trust me; it's good. Really good. Unless you don't like to see people cry, ever. In which case you shouldn't watch it.]
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