Mom's Birthday :)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!

Outside is freezing, about -15C. Yesterday the kids were iceskating for about two hours with a couple of their friends, it was wonderful to watch them enjoy themselves. My youngest has just learned how to iceskate, and she was the last child on ice. When she was alone on ice, she skated around singing: "The whole ice is mine, just mine. Mine alone I may skate around.." and then she fell, and laughed along with others :) What a possible way of thinking, maybe I have done somethings the right way in raising my children.

Last night I slept for 12hours, the new medicine is finally starting to work. Well obviously, because now for the first time in about a year I have the energy to do something else than sit and think how to change my position so it would hurt the least. Still I wonder why, maybe because now I may be at home when my children come home from school?

Oh, school, don't get me started on that! The community we are living in, are going to save some money and one of the teachers at our school has to go! So, there are going to be only two teachers left and 41 students. And since the school in question are the lower classes, it would be very important to have the basics well taught. But no, supposedly the school will be divided in two, so that the first and second grade are together (15 students) and then from the third to the sixth grade (26 students) will be together.
Even today the children have to do the exercises themselves and check the answers on their own. No-one has the time to double check. There should be no problem with this system, but there is - the children are in such a hurry for recess, they just hastily check the results, or in worst case copy the correct answers. And if the answer differs from what they have got, they just erase and write the right answer instead, and don't even wonder how it would be done correctly!!!
Not everyone has parents like me, everyday we go over the homework together. Some days it may take up to a couple of hours, because the teacher at school never had the time to make sure everyone understood the subject.
But I am happy to do this, it jogs my memory to re-study about the Greek Gods or about Fysics (which I never understood myself in school).

Seems to be my last year as president of the parents' association. Five long years I have been the president, but who is going to come in my place? Not many volunteers are available, when we have the compulsory meeting every fall, fewer and fewer parents even bother to come. Not to mention that they would be able to give a few hours each semester to raise money for the kids at school. My objective this last year (if it is my last year) is to give away almost all the money we have raised, next week the students will receive new small sleds. And in a few weeks we'll have a Wintercarneval, there we are going to give to everyone attending free sleighride with a horse. How nostalgic!

But now I have to do the one thing I dislike very very very much - pay the bills. If only I could work in order to make money and not only spend. Well, maybe next month?

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