I have just not felt like blogging lately. Me and about 20 other bloggers I read. It must be the season.

So just what the heck have we been doing? I’m not sure. We’ve been busy but never with anything terribly exciting. On the homeschool front, tumbling wrapped up for us in March. The kids are getting close to “finished” with school for the year, I hope to have loose ends wrapped up this week. We took today off though while Jess went to Adventureland (amusement park) with the local homeschool teen group, so we may seep into next week. Actually, I’m ready to say “screw it” and call it good. I can’t say they’re learning much, their hearts and heads aren’t into it, and neither is mine. So never mind, we’ll be done Friday.

Jess will be high school age next year, so we have been doing a little investigating into classes available to her. She isn’t too interested, but I want her to know the specials, like art, are available if she wants to take a class or two. I’ve also been looking at the graduation requirements, and some of them are stupid and a waste of time. There are some quite lame classes you can fill your time with as well. Who needs the class on learning to live as an adult? Just stupid. I’ve mostly been looking at what colleges want to see though. We are operating under the assumption that Jess will go to college, but if she finds something she enjoys and doesn’t need it, we’re fine with that. But our goal is to have her prepared for any route she chooses.

Matt goes to the pediatrician Friday. A few weeks ago he mentioned “that pain” that he gets in his chest when he’s running or playing…yeah, that’s what I said too, “Uh, WHAT pain??? As if it were a normal thing. He’s not real good at expressing himself, so I’m not all too clear on what exactly is going on. It could just be from being out of breath, but I worry because as a baby he had a heart murmur and saw a pediatric cardiologist who said it would fix itself, but there’s never been any follow up on it. His heart really pounds when he’s been running. I dug out my stethoscope and listened but I haven’t worked peds for almost 11 years (I was pregnant with Matt) and I’ve never been good with abnormal heart sounds so it was kind of pointless. We also have asthma in the family, so I don’t know if that plays into it, but I really want to have this followed up on soon. And I’m not going to let it go with a quick listen and an “I don’t hear anything abnormal”, I want some actual follow-up testing.

We have no soccer games this weekend and I am glad! Matt has two games left, Jess has three, but we get a weekend off to do other fun stuff like build a deck. Okay, I’d much rather watch soccer

Allie has been to 3 dance competitions and recital is only a week away, then she’s on summer break. She has national competition in June, dance “camp” in July, and classes restart in August, so there’s not much break to the break.

Life with the dog is going fine. Don takes him running with him in the morning on most days. I can tell when he didn’t go running because the dog is a bit spazzier and tries to drag me out the door and down the street. He’s a smart guy though, and has figured out I don’t run unless my life is in danger.

We’re looking at a trip to the east coast this summer, but haven’t had much time to do any planning, so I don’t know if it will happen. We want to visit DC museums and Civil War battlefields mostly (okay, I can only speak for me, that’s what I want to see) and the ocean. I could spend a couple months there and not run out of places to go, but it would only be a week whenever we can squeeze it in, so I’m going to have to trim my list down a bit.

That’s all for now. I’m going to try to blog a bit more in the future. I think it helps keep my head cleared of a bit of the clutter that usually occupies it.