It's been a wonderful relaxing week - it's been all about sleeping in, reading, bike riding and napping. :-) I was so stressed from teaching this past term and I knew I needed to just relax for a while. I have been sick almost the whole term - cold symptoms - due to stress, I believe. I have really enjoyed doing 'nothing' this past week. :-) I love reading and it's been fabulous spending so much time reading this week. I have been spending a lot of time reading outside, too - it's been 25C every day with blue skies and a shining sun. :-) I spent time finding book club book lists online and made myself a list of 12 books which sounded like they would be worth spending time on reading. The first book I found was over 500 pages - a bit of a long book for my liking, but I had seen part of the movie which had been made from the book and it looked good so I gave it a shot. It was a good read - and I also found the sequel (much less pages, thank goodness! :-) on the shelf in the library which was an okay read. The third book I finished today - it was a really good read - a crime thriller - my favourite kind. I am now reading my fourth book which is also a crime thriller. I have a fifth book ready to read called 'The Secret Life Of Bees' - it sounds like a really interesting story.
I will have to start planning my last term of school tomorrow - our main unit is on 'community helpers' - sure wish I was in Canada and could go to 'Scholar's Choice' to get a theme book on it. :-) I did a lot of internet searching before the holidays and have the outline done for the unit, so it should be easy to put together. I need to put together a language and math program as well geared towards getting the students ready for grade one.
Dad is still keeping very busy with Grandma - he's been doing some work around the unit and also he, Grandma and Jackie are still sorting through things and working on getting things organized for a memory box which Grandma and Jackie are putting together. Dad says it's a really slow process having to do all this work and also running around doing things to cross off the list of things to be done because Grandpa passed away, but he's glad that he and Jackie are there to help Grandma go through it all. He says that things are starting to come together and he's hoping it will all be done before he goes.
Scott is going to drive Grandma and Jackie to Alberta on Thanksgiving weekend and Doug, Sharon and the two boys are going along also. They will all spend the Thanksgiving weekend with Kathleen, Rob and their kids. I am sure that Grandma will be really happy to have most of her family around at this time. I have read that all the holidays in the first year are really hard to go through for someone who has lost someone. So, having her children and grandchildren around her will help Grandma through this first holiday.
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