Mothering Many

So, I finally got the kids’ game schedules. It’s not pretty. Our options seem to be stay at the field 10 hours, or make two trips most weeks. The exception is the week where most of the kids are on the field at the same time. Different fields. Yay! So far, my weekends are only eaten up through October, but I’m sure that’s because they haven’t finished the rest of the schedule yet. I surely do wish the boys were involved in a sport I understood, yk? I’ve tried, really. And dh explains it anew each fall, but I just. don’t. get. it.

See, I understand baseball. I understand soccer. I understand and enjoy the rodeo. In fact, if my kids were to get involved in rodeo, I wouldn’t mind having to be there for 10 hours every Saturday! The only ones I’ve seen live have been County Fair ones, but we also watch it on TV. I’d love to go to an event like the Houston Rodeo! The boys and I would totally get into the bull-riding and everyone else would enjoy the music and rides. Looking at last year’s Houston Rodeo Tickets schedule, I see that some of Country’s favorite acts played. If we win the lottery, maybe I can get Houston Rodeo concert tickets for all of us for next year’s she-bang. That would be rocking cool, especially if I could get my SIL and her family to meet us there!

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Someone asked me what I might would do with a pressure washer around here. Well, my boys just walked in from football practice, and right now, cleaning boys outside seems like a mighty fine use for such a thing. Pee-you! And if you dont think little boys sweat, let me tell you that I did the team laundry from the flag teams game last week. When they handed me those shorts, they were WET, and those shirts had been worn on top of other shirts.

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School is going well. It lasted a bit longer today that it has the previous days this week, but that’s ok, we got it done. Do you know what POTS means when given as a parental directive?? It means stop and back up. We made up a new word today Of course, we have not yet reached the pinnacle of intelligence that would allow us to hack an iPhone.

What, you say? Yeah. George Hotz has hacked an iPhone. In the grand scheme of things, that didn’t take very long, did it? He traded it for a car and more iphones, LOL!

H/T: Colleen @ GeekySpeaky

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I’m talking about the total lunar eclipse I forgot about this morning! And also constellations! And meteor showers, and! and! and! Now, you know stuff like that is much easier to see with the proper equipment, right? With binoculars, the beauty of the celestial bodies is just almost overwhelming, and BuyTelescopes.com says they have the best astronomy binoculars. Myself, I’d rather have a telescope, but only because I can focus it on what the children need to look at, and then have them step up to it. That way, I can be sure we are all talking about the same thing!

Is this where I admit that I have never seen the rings of Saturn except in pictures? And that I really, really want to hear my children GASP when they do? I’m seriously considering this Meade 70AZ-AR Altazimuth Refractor for us. It’s not too terribly expensive, and…..I want it. I really, really want it.

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The launchpad is now ready for our departures. This is where we keep the stuff that we need to grab before we head out the door. The game shirts for the flag team (yeah, cause I didn’t think I had enough laundry???), the diaper bag, the cooler bag, etc. As you can see, it was piled ridiculously high, and pretty un-useable.

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If you remember, I mentioned that we will be studying stars this term. I asked the children what they wanted learn about, and they gave me several questions that interest them, such as:

• what is the lifecycle of a star?
• why are stars so hot?
• what is a shooting star?
• what do the colors mean?
• what is the shape of a star?
• what are some constellations?

Now it just so happens that I have a constellation experiment lined up already, but as you can see from the rest of the questions, I have my homework cut out for me, LOL!
I found a website today that may help me quite a bit with that. Now, you may think from the name that they only sell things, but that’s not true. I found several good articles there, as well as telescope reviews, forums and classifieds. Yep, they have classifieds, too. You can even find used binoculars for sale!

Now, if I had visited Astromart yesterday, I would not have sent my boys back to bed when they woke up with me at 6AM. I’d have pointed out the Total Lunar Eclipse, instead.

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