Endings and beginnings

1.) It’s the end of co-op. We were able to make it to Presentation Day and watch/listen to the accomplishments of all the different classes. It had been iffy because my younger daughter was sick most of the week, but her fever was down on Saturday morning and we decided to go.

It has been a blessing to be a part of co-op. The girls have learned so much in their classes, and it warms my heart every week to see them go into the opening assembly and sit with their friends. Older Daughter had Egyptian art, honor class, and music; Younger Daughter had biology, music and movement, and 5-in-a-row.

I taught the bio class, as I wrote about here. The human body tracings decorated the walls of the assembly room for the post-presentations lunch and they looked great!

One very sweet little girl presented me with a homemade human body. I’m told s/he is entirely edible, but I haven’t had a taste yet. I’m not sure I can take a bite out of someone wearing such a big smile.

This week concludes co-op, but it inaugurates horseback riding. No pictures of this yet! It’s been a year or two since we did horsemanship, and I think it will be a better investment now that the kids are older. I’m excited and also a tad anxious… Praying for safety for little bodies around big horses.

2.) It’s also the end of basketball. What a great season the girls had.

AND it’s the end of watching March Madness on T.V. My team, Kentucky, lost by a point Saturday night to UConn. :-( We probably won’t watch the final game tonight; the commercials really bugged us as we endured the last few Kentucky games… We don’t watch much T.V., and the inanity and general yuck of the advertising is all the more striking when you’re not used to it. I’m rooting for Butler, though.

But it’s the beginning of spring. A remnant of the gigantic snow horse that ornamented our back yard remains, but those little green shoots I noticed a few weeks ago have endured and triumphed over a snow storm and lots of cold weather.

3.) One other beginning is a blog experiment, and maybe a little bit of a bombshell to anyone who’s read this blog for long. (Janet takes a deep breath…) Across the Page is on Facebook.

Yes, I know… I haven’t exactly been a fan of Facebook as a medium for personal relationships. But what I’ve started is a page, which is a little different. I’m thinking of it as a supplement to the blog, a place to ask questions and generate ideas. I’m still figuring it out, but anyway it’s up and running here and you can “like” it if you feel so inclined. I’m told that more people access the web through Facebook than through Google, so it may be a more convenient path to Across the Page for some people, or a place where less “finished” thoughts than those that make it into a full blog post can be discussed and developed. We shall see. If it turns out to have negative effects or take up too much time, I’ll have to discontinue it. As I said, I’m still figuring out how it all works!