We had book club last night and have chosen The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold. The author’s name may sound familiar; she also wrote The Lovely Bones, which was very popular a few years ago and is a very good book if you haven’t read it. The subject matter is difficult, but the story is good.
Archive for January 2009
This is another book that I read that is for Battle of the Books and it is so good. It is historical fiction and the author created the main character, Grace, after seeing the picture that is on the front cover of the book. The picture, it turns out, is of a little girl whose real name was Addie and she worked in the mills from the age of eight. I felt like the book started out kind of slowly, but I am glad I stuck with it. It was a good story and even more interesting once you find out the history that inspired the story.
Very rarely do I write a blog entry, post it and then remove it. I have only done it twice that I can remember. I wrote a blog post today about a neighbor and then decided that it was not very nice and that I was being a bit judgmental. I try really hard not to judge others because I have not walked in their shoes. In retrospect, I wrote the blog posting to get something off my chest, which I accomplished by writing it. I feel much better now and can delete it.
What a good idea. In order to transition the first graders to, or get them ready for, First Reconciliation and First Communion in second grade, the church where we have Catechesis is having a Baptism Renewal Ceremony. During Catechesis tonight the first graders decorated white stoles that they will wear during the ceremony. I have no idea what they will do during the ceremony, but I just think it a great way to get them thinking about the Sacraments they will have next year…a good way to get the dialogue started. Anyways, it’s not for a couple of weeks, but it will give me time to break out Liam’s scrapbook so we can look at his Baptism pictures again and talk about that day, who was there and why it was special.
I was working with my first grade group this morning and got them going on their activity when they started chatting about enrollment. While they worked on their project together, a couple of them were talking about how they aren’t going to be able to go to that school next year. Now, I don’t know why they aren’t going to go there next year, but I can imagine that economics will play a huge part in enrollment for next year. If you have one or two children, tuition is manageable-maybe, but I can’t even imagine writing the check to pay for three or more kids to go there. There are scholarships available, but there is only so much scholarship money available and that money is usually set aside for families who, without a scholarship, would never be able to send their child/ren to school there. It makes me sad for the school and the families who love the school so much, but sometimes you have to do what you have to do.
Middlesex is the book I have been reading for my book club. It seems like I have been reading it for forever, but I am now done. It was a good book, but some of the subject matter might be a little bit too much for some people. One of my neighbor’s started reading it and had to stop. She just couldn’t read it. I did have to wonder, as I was reading it, where the author came up with his subject matter. I like the way it ends though-no loose ends. Hey, it won a Pulitzer, so it’s gotta be good. Right?
This is a snippet of Liam’s violin concert from this weekend.
Sunday-Migas with bacon and hash browns
Monday-Crockpot chicken, asparagus, bread
Tuesday-Asian Salad
Wednesday-Salmon, rice, green beans
Thursday-Cranberry Apple Pork with bread and butter
Friday-out to dinner
Saturday-Sean’s company dinner
This is Colm’s new favorite movie. He watched it twice this weekend and he would have watched it many more times if we would have let him and if we would have had the time. He will tell you that he likes it because it is funny and it is NOT because of the princess.