(originally posted 1-2-10)
2009 was great and 2010 looks bright, shiny and full of possibilities.
We have already started saving for the AMB Fine Arts Summer Academy and that is often the topic of conversation here. Everyone is adding another instrument this year:
Taylor-adding cello
Hailey-adding viola and mandolin
Emma-adding piano
I am pretty jazzed. They will now be multi-instrumental. There ought to be a word for that. hmm....
Taylor takes driver's ed. in a week and will start a Saturday job. Hailey and Taylor will do TeenPact for a week in May and at least one of them is terribly excited. Emma is determined with her piano lessons as she knows that it is vital if she is to pursue flute in college, as she is planning to do.
They still are diligent about their school work which is cause for much pride. Not everything is perfect and dripping honey soaked utterances such as: "Oh Mother, thank you for the assigned work. May we please have some more?" Yet, they persevere and I (naively, I'm sure) believe that they see the purpose in most of their work.
My reading this year is starting with My Antonia by Willa Cather and The Everlasting Man by GK Chesterton; they strike a good balance.
Last years reading went better than I could have hoped:
Bleak House-Charles Dickens
David Copperfield-Charles Dickens
Little Dorrit-Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities-Charles Dickens
Silas Marner-George Elliot
The Hounds of the Baskervilles-Arthur Conan Doyle
Common Sense -Thomas Paine
Gold Bug, Ligeia, Black Cat,Masque of the Red Death, Cask of Amontillado-Edgar Allen Poe
Ethan Frome-Edith Wharton
The Rights of Man-Thomas Paine
The Father Brown Mysteries-GK Chesterton
The Oresteia -Aeschylus
Oedipus the King-Sophocles
Common Sense -Thomas Paine
The Christian in Complete Armor 1&2-William Gurnall
Antigone-Sophocles
Scenes of Clerical Life-George Elliot
I don't foresee 2010 being quite that productive in the literary department. I think this was a fluke.
2009 was great and 2010 looks bright, shiny and full of possibilities.
We have already started saving for the AMB Fine Arts Summer Academy and that is often the topic of conversation here. Everyone is adding another instrument this year:
Taylor-adding cello
Hailey-adding viola and mandolin
Emma-adding piano
I am pretty jazzed. They will now be multi-instrumental. There ought to be a word for that. hmm....
Taylor takes driver's ed. in a week and will start a Saturday job. Hailey and Taylor will do TeenPact for a week in May and at least one of them is terribly excited. Emma is determined with her piano lessons as she knows that it is vital if she is to pursue flute in college, as she is planning to do.
They still are diligent about their school work which is cause for much pride. Not everything is perfect and dripping honey soaked utterances such as: "Oh Mother, thank you for the assigned work. May we please have some more?" Yet, they persevere and I (naively, I'm sure) believe that they see the purpose in most of their work.
My reading this year is starting with My Antonia by Willa Cather and The Everlasting Man by GK Chesterton; they strike a good balance.
Last years reading went better than I could have hoped:
Bleak House-Charles Dickens
David Copperfield-Charles Dickens
Little Dorrit-Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities-Charles Dickens
Silas Marner-George Elliot
The Hounds of the Baskervilles-Arthur Conan Doyle
Common Sense -Thomas Paine
Gold Bug, Ligeia, Black Cat,Masque of the Red Death, Cask of Amontillado-Edgar Allen Poe
Ethan Frome-Edith Wharton
The Rights of Man-Thomas Paine
The Father Brown Mysteries-GK Chesterton
The Oresteia -Aeschylus
Oedipus the King-Sophocles
Common Sense -Thomas Paine
The Christian in Complete Armor 1&2-William Gurnall
Antigone-Sophocles
Scenes of Clerical Life-George Elliot
I don't foresee 2010 being quite that productive in the literary department. I think this was a fluke.
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