It's been kind of a mish mash the past two weeks. I'm used to school now and have had a small meltdown or maybe two because I thought I had too much homework. But really, I think it's just poor time management on my part- I like to come home and read and eat a snack before diving in but usually my reading and snacking end up lasting an hour which then drags out the whole evening. And then mom has to leave the room while I try to do my homework because she is much more interesting to talk to than doing my homework. That's how much I dislike my homework.
I did manage to get my spear for history class done. Mom and I headed out to the dry creek behind our house to find my stick. She made me dig through the piles of dead branches to find my stick. I wasn't loving that but apparently this is my project. Whatevs, brah. ( That's 6th grade talk for "eye roll")
I got my stick home and felt like I needed to do some sharpening so I found a rock and began pounding away. It was actually kind of cathartic.
Mom then did some bartering for me and managed to talk one of her patients into giving me a piece obsidian shaped like a spear head and then she talked one of her co-workers into borrowing a deer antler to do some flinting to the obsidian. My spear ended up looking pretty cool but didn't work worth a darn. Hopefully, I get graded on the effort and not the functionality!
In case you missed it, mom's birthday was last Saturday and since it was a long weekend, we headed back to Albuquerque for a quick birthday weekend. The weather was perfect and we got to see everyone, play a good game of darts AND celebrate mom's birthday. No matter how old you get, you can't beat celebrating your birthday in your old house.
This past weekend, we had my first softball games of the fall season and it looks like we might actually win a game or two. During our spring season, our league had two 12U teams and neither of the teams were any good but in fall season we only have one team and all of the girls who have their heads in the game and have been playing awhile and have some skill are all on one team. And it's pretty cool. We ended up losing the first game but not without a fight (and an amazing triple play) and we tied the second game. It was a very exciting night and we'll keep you updated!
And that's about it for the week for us. We'll see you next week!
