Hestia Homeschool for Young Wild Women

January 22, 2004

Quiet mood (exhausted)

hearing Atticus Whine

It's been a lively week--I've gotten really behind on my journaling.  Last night Emily, Hannah and Lauren  spent the night.  The Riesenberg girls came home with us after the Baker Hunt Open Studio class.   Shelby loves these girls since they are homeschoolers from a large family (seven and soon to be more!) and are very nurturing. They automatically carry Shelby around, help with diaper bags and unbuckle her from a car seat.  What a delight they are, and what good mothers they will be. Hannah  kept commenting on what a happy baby Shelby is. :-)  After I picked the girls up, we made a few stops--the bank, Mazels for scrapbooking supplies, and the pet store.  Mandy talked to the manager about putting an application in at the pet store after she turns sixteen.  Mandy knows a great deal about animals and this would be a nice location for a job travelwise for us. Mazels was a shark feeding frenzy around the scrapbooking supplies...women grabbing anything off the shelves and sticking it in their carts.  It amused me. Afterward I dropped the girls off at the Beadery in Bellevue.  Lauren  was there with her mom.  The girls each made a necklace.  The Shelster stayed with them and looked perfectly content as I pulled away. I ran up to St. Vincent's thrift store to see if they had any swimsuits (they didn't) but I did get a very nice, unopened kit for children on How to Run Your Own Business. Lauren came home with us, after learning some news that upset her, and spent the night.   Later that night the bigger girls walked down to Gold Star for chili.  Stephen and Randall came over, and I went down to talk to their grandma to see how she is coping with her radiation. Mandy decided she wanted to train at the dojo, so all of us piled into the van and drove up to Aikido of Cincinnati.  The girls loved the dojo, playing on the mat after class, watching Mandy, seeing and making friends... Then , when we got home,Dave and I went out for a nice drive around eleven PM.  It was a nice opportunity to just talk and enjoy each other's company..When we came home, I got the kids in bed, nursed Shelby to sleep, and ordered the girls new bedroom supplies. WHEW.

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