Our friend Peggy made it back from Portland last night. She spent the night with us before she’ll drive home to Aspen today.
Both boys are on the mend. When they got home from school they chased each other around the house like wild banshees  for the first 10 minutes…it felt like an hour. As they were running circles down the hall, into the dining room, through the living room I would catch one of them in a bear hug around the belly an ask which ever one I had at the time to calm down.  My requests were unsuccessful. As soon as I let one of them go it was like a spring action launch and off they would go. Of course the Mr. was on a call downstairs and I’m sure the foot steps sounded more like a stampede, or more likely the running of the bulls. Once I got some food in the kiddos they quieted right down. I think I’ll take their after school snacks with me to pick them up today.
I helped the oldest with his 6th grade math homework…it took us about an hour and a half. Factors, multiples,divisors, least common factor, greatest common factor, divisible, and word problems. Not only did the oldest have to solve word problems, but he had to write word problems and solve them. Ugg! The Mr. is much better at math problems and can figure them out in a matter of seconds. It would be much easier and faster for the oldest to do math homework with the Mr. however he’s always working hard to pay the bills!
I just took a word problem that I was stuck on for at least 15 minutes into the Mr. and he solve it as fas as he read it. I actually had the correct answer after I read it, but I couldn’t figure out how I got the answer. So, I spent 15 minutes trying to write down how I got the answer to no avail.
Uh Oh..just heard the Mr. say that David Axelrod is NBC’s senior analyst…wasn’t he Obama’s campaign manager for two campaigns? Â He’s an impartial guy I’m sure….
The youngest and I did his homework…I’m much better with 4th grade homework.  Both boys read , as reading is  part of nightly homework. The youngest bought a book at the school book-fair yesterday and read almost the entire book last night. He came in to our room and said that there is only 2 chapters left. I guess that is what happens when electronics are removed from the scenario.
We had informed the boys that if their rooms were not clean to our satisfaction before they went to bed Monday night that there would be a consequence. Â I took the PS3 and the Wii out and cleaned/organized their rooms while they were at school. I thought there would be major drama, but the drama was minimal and they both got in a lot of reading. They also visited with Miss Peggy once she arrived.
Time to get moving…I’m late, I’m late…
Love to all and God Bless