Well, looks like I scared some of you off with my last, very negative post!!! So I'll be nice and sweet today so that I don't scare you all off again.
I have officially decided to have another week of holidays. I am the owner of this 'school' so basically I can do whatever I like..........well, within reason. So there you go, I have made a decision! Yesterday I was quite mad, quite unlike my usual self, why? you may ask! well, Because it was discovered on a few occasions throughout the day that I was sitting down reading Homeschooling books and seeking a plan for the new year. Steve actually had to take my temperature because he was concerned that I was ill or something, being a strange thing for me to do
. I had to restrain the finger from pressing BUY NOW schooling items on more than one occasion. Until sanity returns and I really know what I am doing I shall stick to the items that I already own!
I am, at this stage, wondering what career will suit my fourteen year old son whose interest lie solely on playing Xbox "Call Of Duty" oh yes, and watching soccer on t.v, especially when his favourite team, Manchester United, are playing. His only other passion is food, mainly eating it but ocassionally cooking with it. Although I have horrible dreams about him taking on an appreticeship with someone like Gordon Ramsay as his teacher. I only have to ask him to take a shower and he cries like a baby so I hate to think what Gordon would do to this timid??? child.
And what about my 16 year old daughter who is unofficially doing year 12 this year? Centrelink have kindly notified me that if she does not complete an 'official year 12 course' then the money that they pay me for having her at home will abrubtly end!! Well, she is great on Facebook and excells at the art of sending super quick SMS messages on her mobile phone. She also takes great care of herself and can spend up to three hours getting ready to go out and that is just to the letterbox............but best of all, like most teenagers, she knows absolutely EVERYTHING and there is nothing that I or her father can tell her because she already knows. What an assett!
I myself have applied for a job, yes! it is true. After 25 years out of the workforce I applied for a position doing nightfill at Woolworths. I applied online and when it came to the part where I had to attach my resume I ignored it and moved on to the next question. My daughter (Who thinks she knows everything because she works in Human Resources) told me that nobody would look at an application if there was no resume attached. I told her that I informed Woolworths that I could work all hours of the night and surely needed no qualifications to put cans of baked beans on a shelf? Steve is scratching his head in confusion wondering how on earth his wife is going to stay awake in the day to homeschool the kids after working from 12-5 a.m in the morning! but even if I don't get the job (and I really don't think I want it!!) It was good to feel like I had actually made an attempt at applying for something after such a long break from the workplace.........
And to top off this super exciting post I must tell you all that my adoringly beautiful little boy, Joel, turned two yesterday! I can't believe it was two years ago that he entered our world. We wouldn't be without him for anything......he is our little sunshine.