Dumb Writer's Block!

I hate it when I don't have anything to say. It's just been one of those days. Haven't even had time to think. Thankfully, today isn't nearly as bad as yesterday. Actually, today hasn't been bad at all. It's just been a day. Started out with a little Oswald Chambers. He really makes me think. "To serve God is the deliberate love-gift of a nature that has heard the call of God."  Hmm. Now, that's something to chew on!

I've been a bit cold all day. I don't know what that's all about.  It's sunny out. It's been sunny out for about 2 months now. We really need the rain. Everything is so dry. My allergies are killing me. I've got vertigo again. I had to get up in the middle of the night to get Baby a drink of water because she was coughing and hacking (because of her allergies - she's only 15 months old and the dr. already has her on Claritin - there is only one person in our family who is not on regular allergy medicine) and I about took a header into the wall because I was so dizzy. I'm going to try some meclizine, as was recommended by the doctor. Hopefully it'll rain this weekend and clear the air.

 We got through school without too much mishap.  We had the most interesting story in history today. It was about Queen Nzinga from Angola. She lived in West Africa in the late 1500's and her life was pretty much dedicated to fighting the Portuguese as they kept up the slave trade and tried to take over her land.  I'd never heard of her, but she was a pretty interesting woman. We've started talking about the slave trade in history now and the thing I really like about world history, and this curriculum, is that it covers slavery as the global problem that it was, rather than just focusing on American slavery, which so much history curriculum does. So, that's been good.

And so, that's what the day's been like. Some of the kids are watching tv right now. This is the time of day they do it. Bubba didn't get his work done on time, so he only gets 1/2 hr. of tv today. Baby's eating chicken nuggets for lunch. Cee-cee's eating yogurt for snack and I'm having a cup of coffee laced with that Toroni's Sugar-Free Vanilla Syrup. When I really want to make it good I put both the Vanilla and Chocolate syrups in. Yumm!