For the past couple days the weather has been playing tricks on us. We have been getting clouds but no real rain so to speak. Not that I'm saying I want the rain, but every now and then I do love a good thunder storm. For the last 3 1/2 years we lived in California there was never a really good storm so to speak of and after living living in the state of Nebraska and seeing how gray and black the clouds would get, and how they would swirl in all directions above our heads, there was a beauty, yet terrifying sense all in one during those storms, and I just couldn't help myself, staring out the windows, wondering what was happening up in the clouds and if it would somehow affect me and my family? Once we started living in the mid West, I had become fascinated by the weather and have spent hours watching the weather channel much to the chagrin of my husband. I guess I felt that if I could understand the weather a little better that I would know when there would be danger and would be better prepared to protect my children if needs be. Being a mother, that is my job, to protect my younglings and keep them safe at all cost! I have spent half of our married life if not a little more living in area's that the sky could drop down at any minute and swoop us and everything I hold most dear up into the sky and they would be gone just like that. I know that this is a control problem which I need to over come, but I am I mother and I mean to protect my children at all cost. So I look out today, wondering what the day will bring, and hope to see a little more than a drizzle.
On a side not, DJ got his first test back from the school today and he is quite pleased as our we with his results. He got a lot of 1's and a couple 2's. There were a couple things that he knew and just somehow got put the wrong answer down and when we went over it, he couldn't figure out how he had done that, but all in all he was happy. He seems to really enjoy being homeschooled. It has been fun to find those things that he enjoys and get to know him a little better. I don't think I would have really ever known about some of this if we hadn't homeschool. We are starting to wonder if I should homeschool in the Netherlands and then we don't have to worry so much about living in a particular city and can go to one of the smaller towns. My only worry is I would love the kids to get to know other's in the area, and if we do that they won't have that social interaction with the youth as much there. Here it's easy because there are so many homeschooled kids in the area, and they have a lot in common, but that will not be the case in the Netherlands. Add on top of that the fact that they will be foreigners, so how will that work out? I still have a few more months to work this out, but I need to know what I'm going to do. That's the control freak side of me.
Guess I should get back to school. DJ is learning about Antarctica today in geography and needs help. I don't have the answers off the top of my head;)
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