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<\/a><\/p>\nSo much has been going on lately, and our camera has been with Canon. We\u2019re back in business, as of today! Whahoo! It\u2019s been hard for me to figure out what to put on the blog, because it\u2019s public, but you guys also care so much. So with that, I\u2019ll just say I haven\u2019t been feeling well with fibromyaliga, but we\u2019re on top of the world loving each other! <\/p>\n
On to our super speller! I was an okay speller as a kid. I had to work at it. Getting good grades (for those of you that know me) was obviously important to me. The difference between Noelle\/Mike and me is that I had to work my butt off for my 100\u2019s, whereas they just somehow already knew\/know the right answers. It makes me so sick (that there are Mike\u2019s\/Noelle\u2019s out there), but so stinkin\u2019 proud! I think I\u2019ve talked on the blog before about celebrating all children and their strengths, because each of us have things we ourselves excel at as well as our children, be it sports, music, art, reading, math, writing, the list goes on and on. I\u2019m so proud of so many of our special friends and all their amazing talents, and today, I\u2019m so very proud of our fashionista that she loves to spell, that words are like puzzles for her, that she enjoys it and won\u2019t have it any other way than to get all of the words correct. <\/p>\n
When Thursdays roll around (the day before test day), I\u2019ll go over the spelling words with her one time and once I know she\u2019s got them, I say, \u201cWe\u2019re good to go!\u201d And she\u2019ll gasp and be like, \u201cWhat about the challenge words?\u201d But I\u2019m changing Rose\u2019s diaper and hearing Anna Kate screaming about Rose getting into her dress-up trunk, so I\u2019m usually a tiny bit over extended. Since the challenge words are extra credit, I\u2019ll say, \u201cIf you want them, go study them. You can do it!\u201d Sure enough, she comes home with big fat 100\u2019s on the backs of her tests each and every week! <\/p>\n
I remember struggling with the word \u2018because\u2019 so much in 2nd grade that I wrote it on the inside of my desk so that anytime I had to write a paper, I didn\u2019t have to slow down my thoughts to figure out how to spell that pesky word that always came back around. She is definitely her Daddy\u2019s child in this subject! And, although she won\u2019t get a prize or certificate this year for spelling, I notice, and I am thankful she tries her best at everything that she is given. And if she does bring home a bad grade in a different subject, we\u2019ll talk about it, study and go over it, but first, I always ask her if she tried her best, if she says \u201cYes\u201d and means it (which she always does), that\u2019s all that truly matters to us. May we adults always try our best in all that we do and say too! <\/p>\n