What a long weekend. Friday we attended a rally to save our State Park. Our lovely governor has decided our budget is so in debt that he is closing 11 State parks, over 30 Historical sites, and 300 positions in our states Dept. of Children and Families. This park is the ONLY local place we have to go to enjoy fishing, hiking, trails, wildlife, camping, canoeing, a National scenic river, and just general natural beauty and peace. Our local state representative was there, and is introducing new legislature to have the land deeded back to our county. Our county is the one who donated the land to the state in the first place! I'm sure with all the red tape, it will be years before we can enjoy this beautiful area again. They plan to gate every road, and anyone "trespassing" on the soon-to-be-vacant, unused land will be subject to arrest.
Sunday we all went to a fair and festival about 30 miles from here. It featured free sweetcorn, which our family was happy to partake of. Even C ate 2 whole ears...that's more than her normal vegetable allotment for a year. : ) It was very hot, but we all had fun. The prices for rides was ridiculous. $1.25 for one ticket, and each ride cost either 3 or 4 tickets, so we could only afford to let the girls choose 2 rides each. The food was ridiculous too, but it always is in those places. Good thing we filled up on free corn first.
Yesterday the schools were all closed, but not here. C did 2 math lessons, some vocab, and then asked for history, so we did that too. Last night she asked Dad to do some Astronomy, so they worked on that while E read to me for an hour. She read so well, and so fast that I wanted to record it. She got shy when anyone else came to listen, so I decided not to. It would be neat to have a video I could post on here. C is a great reader now, but she sure wasn't reading that well on her own till 1st grade. I can't believe I've successfully taught a child to read.
The rest of our weekend was spent arguing with our oldest dd17 and her fiance. They insist on getting married the week after she graduates high school, and no amount of talking will change their mind. His parents are very encouraging, and see nothing wrong with it. They took A shopping Saturday to try on and choose her wedding gown. We don't have a problem with the boy. he is a great, responsible, hard working, kid. The problem is they are both just children! We would like A to be able to make it on her own...get a job, a car, pay bills, take some classes at college, get an apartment and find out how hard it is to just take care of yourself, let alone another person. If she can prove herself for a year at least, we might be more open to a wedding. However, as they will both be over 18 next June, legally we can't stop them. I informed them both that we simply do not have money for a wedding, so if they persist in this she had better get a job (we've been working on THAT lost cause for 2 years) to help pay for the wedding, the reception, and the honeymoon. And that's only the first week of marriage.
All in all it was a good weekend. Even the hours of trying to talk sense into 2 teenagers heads....maybe they will think about it a little.
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