A.P, H.S. and STRESS

Let's begin with my big news. I am home schooling. It is great. Here is what my days look like. In the morning, my mom, my sister, my dog, and I all go for a walk. When we get home, we head up to the Learning Loft in our house and we do our subjects. We are finished by lunch. Depending on the day, I might practice my recorder, do Latin, go to fencing, go to Jams (my choir), or play in the afternoon. I love homeschooling! My mom is a fantastic teacher and I think other kids should be jealous. On Fridays, I have a special day. Fridays are my cooking day! Last Friday, I made mini apple pies! I did almost the entire recipe myself. The crust was the hardest and my mom helped me roll it into a ball. The recipe made 4 pies, just my luck. My sister got to eat hers first and she went "goo goo" over it. The rest of the family had to wait because we were leaving so we ate our for breakfast. (Hey it is not as bad as sugar cereals and it had fruit!) They all agreed it was delicious. Shhhh, here is a secret, I didn't really like the crust. My mom said it was flakey and great. You should also probably know that I do not have a sweet tooth, but I like making sweets for other people. Actually, I don't really like making things for myself at all, but it's fun to make things as presents for other people. This Friday, I think I am going to make Chex Mix from scratch because we might be going camping in our new camper and can bring it along. You know, you can't bring cupcakes along on a camping trip. Lastly I want to talk about STRESS. I hate it. I wish it never came into the world. I wish the word didn't even exist.. It's terrible. It makes your mom, your dad, your brother, or your sister and even you, grouchy and mad. Nobody likes a stressed person. Stress is like the devil, it can play with people and make the whole family feel bad. But stress always starts from scratch. It's a little bit like a food that you make. It starts with something simple and turns into this terrible thing, like you put too much salt or cinnamon in your apple pie. It goes from ok to bad. Nobody likes stress at all. I think homeschooling might help with our family stress because we are all together more, can encourage each other, and maybe have more time so we don't have to go running our heads off. It's getting late and I have to go to bed soon, which really means that I want to go read. But if you haven't figured it out already, the letters at the top stand for what I wrote about. A.P is apple pie, H.S. is home school, and STRESS is what you all know-stress (Yuck!) I have been reading some darn (my mom isn't sure that I should be using that word yet) good books. I hope you have been too. Vale, Grace PS Vale is Latin for ? (look it up yourself!)