Brand New Day

It's a brand new day! Not to be confused with the song from the awesome "Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog," which I've been watching and singing along to a lot lately.

Last night as I went to bed, I started crying, the stress finally overwhelmed me, and depression was setting in. I've been fighting these negative feelings for a few months now, but the theft of the wheelchair finally broke my spirit. TJ, ever my knight in shining armor, held me and listened to me cry about the stresses in our lives and my frustration with our recent rotten luck. Afterwards, as I was trying to fall asleep, I was trying to figure out how to find some positive perspective in my life and find something positive to write about. Today I woke up, got through most of the day without my pain meds, and even went on a job interview (ironically for the State Disability office). After I got home my boys (TJ included) were waiting for me and we decided to run a few errands.

Since I haven't been out much, especially the past week, I decided we should stop by the Learning Store to look around. I love these stores, I could spend a fortune in there on fun science stuff, arts and crafts supplies, and teaching tools. I swear these stores are science nerd crack. Anyways, while we're browsing through the store, I come across the Science Fair section. I'm unsure if the boys will be required to do a project, but I decided to check it out anyway. I found these great little books with simple science projects, and I began to think how much fun it would be to do these with the kids. As I continue to browse through the store, I think more and more about how this could be a positive thing for me, not to mention the time spent with the kids. It would also give me something positive to write about, and bring this blog back to it's nerdy roots. For a while it seemed like the "Things or people that annoy us" blog. So science will be my therapy, a cathartic outlet for my frustrations.

The Saturday/Sunday Science Project

One day out of the weekend, we will do a science project as a family, and post our findings on here. I'll even try to get some pictures and video on here of our endeavors. We will be using the book: Steck-Vaughn Science Projects Grades 3-4

Darren holding our new project book