Grandparent Visit

Woke up this morning to the sound of Meggie making 'fishy' noises at me, which was an interesting, but cute way to wake up.

After having breakfast, I started cleaning up the shed and garage from the last couple of weeks. I got in the habit of just throwing everything back in either place at the end of the day's work. So, now that I am officially done with the deck (I decided to hold off on the lattice, it is only cosmetic, and $$ for this project is gone), it was time to clean up. I only got about halfway done, when I went inside, got showered, and had lunch.

At 1 we headed over to my Grandmom & Grandpop's house (my Dad's parents). I talked to my Grandpop on the phone yesterday because he was having computer problems that I couldn't seem to fix over the phone. So I suggested we stop by, because we haven't seen them in a while. I fixed Grandpop's problem with the computer, while Meg got to listen to my Grandmom's normal topics of conversation, that being: medical ailments. Eventually, my Grandpop and I came out so that they could do what grandparents do best... feed people. I ended up eating half of an Entenmann's cheese-filled crumb cake while we chatted. My grandfather wanted to order pizza, and we strongly had to insist that we were full. Now, don't get me wrong, I love my grandparents, but it always amuses me how uneasy they get when you have an empty plate in front of you.

Came home from their house, relaxed a bit, swam a bit, had some delicious ka-bobs on the grill for dinner, and then computer time. I am starting to do some school work. I know it seems crazy, but every summer, I have this list of school-related things I want to do, and end up putting them off until the last week before school starts, and then stress because I didn't get done what I wanted. I want to try to get a little bit done every day, so that I don't have to spend the last week of vacation worrying about school.

Last school year, I revised the music curriculum. The old one was poorly organized and very vague. And being that it was only my 1st & 2nd year there, I was making things up as I went along. Now that we have a good curriculum, I am writing a curriculum map. Basically guidelines of when things are taught throughout the year. I will then eventually use this to plan out my units, and write my lesson plans. I made a small dent in it, but hey, it is started.

Okay, gonna read some more of The Summons, and then sleepy time.