Almost Back to Normal
Two more days under our belts. We are slowly approaching normal. Laundry is caught up. Floors are vacuumed and I am almost rested enough to bleach all floors, wipe down walls, and steam clean our couches and carpets. (Maybe by Saturday, I’ll have the energy.)
I spent yesterday grading assignments that were completed during our illnesses. While we (adults) were ill, we had healthy children moving ahead in math and language books if they were able to be rambunctious. (Reading is never an issue with the boys and the Gremlin is already well into The Lord of the Rings book that he picked up “just for fun” while we were all recuperating. I swear, that child devours books!)
Sometime while we were all sick, our box of school books arrived from Sonlight. (Yay, box day!) Since we were too sick to care, we hauled it to my office and there it sat. Last night we opened it up and poured over all the books and titles for the year. Box day is HUGE at our house! All the kids gathered to go through the books and help me color code them (by school year) for our personal library. We organized all the books and added another shelf to our library. On Monday we will begin our new materials. Sarge is very excited because he has been begging to get into WWI and WWII in depth, for some time now. I was happy to see several old classics that I remembered reading in junior high.
I’ve got to get my crock pot started. I’m making a hearty sirloin stew with veggies for dinner. If there’s time I’ll make up a loaf of homemade Peasant Bread to dip in it. Yum!
