Rainy Days

  Along with Spring comes a lot of rainy days for us.  I've been needing to get out and tend to my flower bed but the weather has not been cooperating...although I'm sure the rain has been good for my flowers .  Since going to my friend's wedding, things have been pretty busy around here, along with the usual stuff of schoolwork and music practice.  Homeschooling is winding down since we only have a month to go...I'm so excited to be nearly done with my junior year .  In music, my younger sister and I have been practicing a piano/guitar duet of "I See the Light", which is one of our favorite songs from the Disney movie "Tangled".  We will be playing it in front of a crowd of people at our town's local Strawberry Festival in a couple of weeks.  I love going to the Strawberry Festival here since it has so much fun stuff to do and great food to eat ....looking forward to this!

My mom will be having her baby anytime now, so excited that my baby sister will be here soon.My sisters and I have been busy helping my mom around the house and helping get baby stuff out such as baby clothes.  We also got down the baby bassinet and got that all set up, baby sister will be sleeping there for awhile right next to my mom's bedside, lol.  Along with this excitement, my older brother will be getting home from college next week...yay!  As I said, lots of excitement going on around here! 

Catlover   

A wonderful day!

 Today was a wonderful day as I got to attend the wedding of a homeschool friend...it was simply beautiful!  I have to admit that I almost cried , such a happy occasion, and I am very happy for her!  After the ceremony, we went to the reception where we ate some food, along with some tasty cake and cookies .  Later on, the bride and groom came in to cut their cake, drink some punch, and talk with everyone.  Then it was time for the bride to toss her bouquet.....and guess who caught it?! Yes, that's right, I caught the bride's bouquet! Exciting!  Below is a picture of me with the bouquet:

 

 

What a great way to end the week!

 

Catlover

Spring is in the air!

  Aaachooo!  A sure sign that Spring is here is my allergies...ick.  My sinuses and my allergies have been aggravating me like crazy the past couple of weeks.  Don't get me wrong, I love Spring, the weather is warming up, and everythig is starting to bloom beautifully.  But along with that beautiful bloom comes pollen, pollen that loves to get my allergies stirred up.  Things are finally calming down, I can breathe a little better now.  And I'm glad to be feeling better too since my older brother has been home this week on Spring Break from college.  It has been fun getting to spend time with him!  I also got to attend a bridal shower, a homeschool friend of ours (who graduated a few years ago) is getting married next month.  She definitely got a lot of things, but she also ended up with two toasters and four griddles, lol.  I guess she will be making a lot of pancakes for her future husband, lol!   

School and music have kept me busy, along with helping out here at home.  My mom has two more months to go until my baby sister is born, I can hardly wait!  And, not only can I feel my baby sister move around, I can see her move around inside my mom....she's pretty active. In my music, I practicing a lot of things for church, some movie tunes, and also my recital piece.  I plan on playing "I See the Light" from the Disney movie "Tangled", it will be a duet piece I will be playing with my younger sister who plays the guitar.  I am having fun with it!

School has been going well, I can't believe I am nearing the end of my junior year, I am looking forward to my senior year this Fall.  I have already been making some plans with my mom about all I'm going to be studying.  I will have Bible and Government/Economics as my regular subjects.  I enjoy Bible a lot, but Government/Economics sounds soooo boring to me .  This leaves me plenty of room for exploring my areas of interest.....music, art, missions....and taking some college-prep math to get me prepared for community college.  I am still thinking about attending community college next year and studying early childhood education.  But I want to retake the math part of their entrance test and see if I can score better this time.  It will save me a lot of time if I don't have to deal with so many pre-requisite math classes.....especially since I am not very fond of math .  The less I have to deal with it the better, lol.

Enjoy your day!

Catlover

It's about time I posted, lol!

 Well it's about time I posted on here, lol!  It's been nearly a month sincemy last entry but that is because things have stayed busy for me around here.  I am back into full swing with my piano lessons   and practicing all kinds of stuff.  Along with learning my favorite music pieces from the "Lord of the Rings" movies, I am also practicing some church hymns, along with starting a new recital piece.  I need to keep up with the hymns since I will be taking over playing the piano at church later on when my mom has my baby sister.  Speaking of baby sister, I have gotten to lay my hands on my mom's stomach and feel the baby moving around several times.  Lol, with the way she kicks, I think she is going to be a future soccer star .  Homeschooling is going along fine, I am doing well with my Bible, U.S. History, and American Literature courses.  I have also been busy looking at colleges again, although I am still not sure where I really want to end up at.  But there is no hurry on that anyway since I will probably be starting off with community college first and then transfer to another college later on......but where to transfer to....that is the question , lol.  As I said, no hurry for now.  I can't believe I will be in 12th grade this Fall, I am so excited!  My mom has already sat down with me to help me plan out what all I am going to study this Fall.  Since I will only have Bible and Government/Economics, I will have plenty of room to further explore my other areas of interest such as missions, British Literature, art, and music.  Sounds like fun!  Of course, I will also need to make room for some test prep stuff in Math.  I want to re-take the college placement test to see if I can test better in the Math and not have to deal with that many Math pre-requisites....that would be nice, lol!  But for now, I will stay focused on what I need to be doing and not worry over anything else.

Catlover

Back to schoolwork

 It's the start of a new year and so has another semester of homeschooling.  This is our second week back, so I have been a little busy getting back into the swing of things.  Last semester, I finished British Literature, so now I am studying American Literature...not my favorite area but I guess it's ok, lol.  So far I am doing well with my school work and practicing my piano music.  Things didn't work out for me to get to do college classes this semester since they've made stuff so much stricter.  I had to have passed into all three areas....math, reading, and english...in order do their associate degree program for high schoolers......and I only passed into freshman English (although I was close to passing the other areas).  So, I think it will be easier for me if I just wait until I graduate from high school next year and then get started on my Associate's degree in Early Childhood Education.  This way I can just skate on thru the next year and a half of school. 

I had a great Christmas and got some of the things on my wishlist....."The Last Airbender" movie, a Christian music CD, some gum and candy, a hand lotion/soap set from my sister, a sweatshirt from my brother, and a paint set from my other sister.  I also had my 17th birthday last week  , complete with an ice cream cake, yummy!  I got a paint-by-number set (picture of cute kittens), some candy, a Hobbit calendar, and some nice smelling shower gel.  It was great!

We had my birthday a day early because it was time to take my big brother back to college, so I went along to help carry his stuff into his room (plus I happen to enjoy the trip up there).  But on the way back home, I started feeling kind of bad, thinking it was maybe something I ate.....turned out to be a stomach virus....ick !  But I am glad that is done and over with, hopefully that is it for sickness.  And speaking of sickness, our poor cat Oscar  must have had a hairball, seems he barfed up a good-sized hairball...right on the hood of my brother's car....ick!  Thankfully that barfiness is done with and things are back to normal, lol!

Have a great day!

Catlover

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