New Space? Just add a lil Sage to the place :)

The lazy Mississippi River. 

My husband and I just moved  and boy do I feel over whelmed! I got about 98% of the place unpacked and almost every thing has a home. I am just struggling with the last bit of the to-do-list. I want to get it ready for purifying the space with my sage stick. I love to cast my circle and push it out past my walls mentally for cleansing my space ( My whole house is my sacred space ). I light my sage stick and walk the walls of my house (the best I can) and push my energy outward sealing it.  I am hoping to get my ritual done this weekend. I just have to pull myself out of my lazy haze. Moving really drains a person and sleeping in a new place takes a while to get used to. It doesn't help my husband has a habit of stealing my covers and pillows : / . Now if I could just get the husband up I could start this weekend. Saturdays at our house are the laziest days of all. The husband will stay up all night and then pass out after 4am just to sleep in all day. *Pokes the angry bear with the  staff* "Get up you lazy bear! I have lots to do today!!"  **** The picture is from the dam by my new house except I took this picture last summer at 5 am lol 

Which Witch do I use?

    Being a PCA for my mother in-law I get to spend quite a bit of time with my 17 year old brother in-law. This means I help him with every thing from homework to girl problems. Today's homework was an English paper on phobias. This is also the point where my anger and frustrations begin to boil, but not because of him but because of our schools.

    He is 17 years old and doesn't even know proper English! I don't want to chalk it up to laziness cause these are mistakes that even a lazy kid doesn't make. He would start almost every sentence with the words: So, And, & because. I was at a loss for words I was so shocked. There was also the use of the word witch for the word which. I don't want to sound like a spelling and grammar Nazi but I know 12 year olds that don't write like that. How do you not know Where from were and we're? My teachers in high school and middle school were constantly reminding us to remember our commonly misspelled words. Also his use of run on sentences really drove me nuts. Instead of starting a new sentence he would just use the word "and".  I spent 4 hours explaining to him how to write a proper paper today. Every thing from intros to conclusions.



     What I am trying to understand is how this got under the radar of his English teachers all these years. How does a child not know how to write a proper paper or use proper grammar? I know he is special needs ( ADHD, anxiety and fetal alcohol syndrome) but these are not excuses to not teach him. I have ADHD and can write a decent paper on any subject I have enough knowledge on. I have a learning disability as well. I didn't have help in school for every test I took and a para following me to every class like he does and I still managed to get A's and B's in school. 


     Are teachers getting lazy? Do teachers just not care any more? What is to become of our education system? These are questions that are racing through my mind tonight. My teachers were vigilant on their grammar crusades. Nothing missed my teacher's criticism. Their red pens bloodied my papers until I learned to use conjunctions and adjectives in a proper manner. I felt terrible when I bloodied his paper in the same manner earlier today and wondered if my teachers felt the same or if they just pitied me. Did it make them proud to see me improve over the year? Are students like me what makes them want to keep teaching? I know every time a teacher used my work to make a good example of what to do, it made my heart swell with such pride. I knew my pride would make my head big but I just didn't care at that point. English was my best subject and I still cling to it to find happy places for my head to rest. 


        I want to leave you with this question tonight: What would you do if you discovered your child was still writing run on sentences as a junior in high school? Tell me in the comments or ask me questions as well. Blessed be my friends. 

Here goes the new blog....

After only being married for 5 months, I am no wiser than I was when I said "I do". I have no advice if you are looking for some. You may bestow upon me all the words of wisdom you have for a young couple. I will soak and revel in your thoughts so carefully worded in to complete sentences. I promise no magick for you, 'cept maybe a spell or two. I will share what I have learned and my experiences that are so deep in emotion you may laugh and cry with me. I have many questions that you, my readers, will be able to answer for me or share some light. I hope to dispel my stress, worries, joy, love and vague memories that bog down my heart. Here I will share my adventures in marriage and life. I won't only talk about marriage I promise this! I will post my girly exploits, mommy candid moments, Big sister rants and my joys of being an aunt and godmother to the most amazing, sweet children I have had the pleasure to be in their lives. I will always answer questions about my religion. I am no priestess but I have many moons to back me up. Being Wiccan is incredibly important to me. It defines me as a woman, mother, wife, sister and an aunt. I hold the value and morals taught to me at face value. Now to get back to stirring the cauldron :) Blessed be my friends!