Wow! It's been over a year since I last wrote in my blog. Shame on me! It's one of those items on my To Do List that is always way at the bottom and never gets done. I love looking at my blog and seeing all those great pictures. I also love viewing the blogs of my friends and family. It makes me feel so much closer to them.
Here's a quick review of this past year:
Most of the time I am busy homeschooling Sage. We first attempted to use the public virtual school program but it was awful. Our school year became so much more successful when I used my own made up program. We used a lot of great workbooks. Since Sage will be going into 2nd grade, I have decided to add a little more structure. For all of you familiar with home school curriculum, we will be using Saxon Math, Learning Language Arts Through Literature, Hooked On Phonics and we will continue with our Spectrum workbooks and Comprehensive Curriculum. I also ordered one of the Highlights programs for geography. If I have any extra money I want to order REAL Science. It's kind of expensive. I still need to figure out a good social studies program. Most of the curriculum out there are very Christian based and have a very biased, biblical view. Sage has been going to Sunday school so she learns religion there. She is also starting to learn hebrew. For what, I don't know!
My health has still been pretty lousy. I can't seem to get my Crohn's Disease under control. I had been on a medication, Cimzia, for about 8 months that made me completely sick and it didn't help my Crohn's. My doctor added Methotrexate with it and I felt even worse. I needed to take the Cimzia every two weeks through a painful shot in my stomach and at the same time, the Methotrexate which was a shot in my arm. For a week after, I was barely able to function without taking lots of naps. I felt like I had the flu. I am now on a study medication called Millenium. So far it hasn't done much to help me and I also feel sick for the first two weeks. I plan to take one more dose next week. It's an intravenous medicine that I have to get at my doctor's office. If I feel sick this time, I won't take it again. My doctor has nothing else for me. How depressing! I try not to let it get me down and I still do as much as I can. I'm busy most of the time. I'm just in pain always and I can't eat if I want to do anything. I just started doing yoga again. Maybe it will help.
I've been crocheting a lot. Eventually, I plan on taking a picture of everything I made that I still own and post it here. I wish I had taken pictures of some of the projects I made that I gave away as gifts. My most recent project that I almost finished is a purse. I still need to sew a lining and a zipper or put on a snap or button. My sewing skills are for the birds! I go to a knitting club every Sunday that keeps me on my toes to complete my stuff. I'm hoping somebody there will help me sew it.
Obviously, my life is pretty boring. Thus, my lack of material to write for this blog. Did you guess what Sage was for Halloween? Yes, she was a vampire. She had tons of fun. As I search through my pictures from last year, I'll post anything that looks interesting or funny. I can't promise I'll post something every week, but I sure hope it will be more than once a year from now on so keep checking back.
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