I’m recuperating from the camping trip. Just a little.

Monday we had school, worship dance and CAP. I have to go buy new leotard, tights and pants for Bethany because, yes, someone did steal them from the Burger King in Cherry Creek. Tuesday we did school, went to the library and Grace had her DIEBELS test; I forget what it stands for…. diabolically intrinsic evil boring….no, just kidding. It’s a reading fluency test that COVA gives twice a year (or maybe three times a year I forget) to make sure kids can read. Grace needed to get a 4 on the first part, she got 8.5; then she needed 2, she got 38; the last one doesn’t have a benchmark but she got 31. I’ll be looking to raise those next time now that she knows what she’s supposed to do. Wednesday we skipped park day to do school and work on presentations for this Friday.

Today more school and then fishing in the Platte river. Joel wanted to go fishing when we camped, I tried to tell him we were headed to a desert/grassland, but he thought I was wrong. Surely there is somewhere to fish in the desert he thought. Well, we did pass a few creeks, but they weren’t accessible. So, today we’ll try to fish, I doubt he’ll catch anything and if he does I’m not touching it!

So, tomorrow’s presentation club and the topic is stories. Joel and Bethany are done and Grace will be done today. After that I think we’ll come back home a do a little school and wait for James to get home. It’s his Friday off, but he has to go into work, maybe he’ll get out early. Saturday we have to go to Cherry creek for dance lessons and rehearsal. After that I plan on going by Washington park to see if the huge sycamore tree leaves have changed color yet. Gosh, it seems like I was just there seeing that! Oh, and lastly I wrote a camping haiku:

wind why do you blow
thrashing and twisting my tent
postponing my sleep