What We Accomplished…Days # 11 & 12 7/25/11 & 7/26/11

This is a mix of two days because yesterday was just crammed full of … stuff. And I’m going to list them youngest first because oldest isn’t quite done yet with today’s work… she still has some to do so I may end up editing this post.

Fox:
Bible: Reading (Numbers 7, Mark 5), verse (Matthew 6:31-34, read, write, recite), Saints and Heroes (read aloud pages 74-80)
Math: Life of Fred PreAlgebra 2 with Economics (chapter 14), Khan Academy (absolute value)
History/Geography: Story of the World (chapter 27), What Everyone Should Know… (pages 101-105, written narration), Complete Book of Marvels
Science: The Sciences (Astronomy), Murche’s Science Reader VI (chapter 5, vocabulary)
Language Arts: 30 minutes of reading each day (Great Inventors and Their Inventions), Hobbit (first half of chapter 3)
Gov’t/Economics/Civics/Logic: Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? (read chapter 2)
Penmanship: Pictures in Cursive (Jakob Bogdany “Still Life of Grapes”) both days

Lee:
Bible: Reading (Numbers 18, John 12), verse (Romans 6:1-6, read, write, recite), Mere Christianity (pages 36-39), Mark Commentary (up to chapter 2)
Math: Khan Academy (multiplying decimals, greatest common divisor)
History/Geography: The Life of Christopher Columbus both days, Western Civilization (pages 293-294)
Science:  Biology (pages 18-23, vocabulary)
Language Arts: Jensen’s Grammar (Lesson 52 & 53), History of English Literature (chapter 32), 30 minutes reading (Gulliver’s Travels)
Gov’t/Economics/Civics/Logic: Plutarch’s Lives (the Graachi), Utopia
Foreign Language: Greek (reviewed to Lesson 13 in Level 4)

And now for why this didn’t get posted as I’d planned (…best laid plans…). Yesterday was paper route day for Lee but this time there was an extra item to deliver. It is the local area business guide. Not very large but it had to be delivered to the porch of every house (regardless if they get the paper or not), flat. The added weight messed with Lee’s hip. She fell two years ago and has had some issues with it since. The normal 1 1/2 hours turned into over 2. The night before I had been making dog food for the dogs we are watching and the rice would not cook. I was up until 2 am! Lee (ahem said she couldn’t sleep with the light on) stayed awake as well. We had to get up and get the papers at 8 am in order to have a quick paper route day…well lack of sleep kind of put a damper on that plan. We did get the papers about 8:30ish but she was so sluggish rolling them that it took a bit.

We had a house showing on Monday also so I had to make sure the house was clean (you can imagine my rushing around trying to get the kids to pick up their stuff- all of it!- more than a few times). I also had to rush to get the back yard mowed. It’s been a few weeks since it was last done so you may be able to understand why it took me a very long time. My hands still hurt today from holding down the bar. But anyway…it looks much better. Finally got back to the house we are sitting and had to clean up my mess from the night before so that I could make dinner. My day was shot by then. We had dinner late and school didn’t get done all the way and not even started until really late.

Today, Tuesday, the lady from the newspaper called (I thought that she was going to complain about papers not being delivered… Miss Negativity here…) and asked if either Fox or Lee would want to do an extra route today because the person that does it got sick yesterday while doing the route. It didn’t get finished. I thought for sure one of them would say “Pick me!” because it was for double pay. So I told the lady yes. Oops. At first Lee said, “I want to do it!” but then she remembered how bad she was hurting by the end of yesterday’s route and changed her mind. Fox really didn’t even take long to say, “no”. Hmmph. WELL, since I’d already said “yes”, I had to do the route. Not a big deal. That means $ for me The papers were supposed to have been already rolled (according to the person who had talked to the newspaper lady) but they were not. I rolled them as quickly as I could and got started at 12:45 or so. I got done at 3:30. I mean, really that wasn’t too long but I can’t get out of my chair now lol. Yes, you can laugh too. It is funny (and a little sad that walking so much makes me so sore- gives an indication of my physical state…anyway…moving on).

Tomorrow morning is the last day for the kids to enter their 4H exhibits and unfortunately at least one (possibly both) will end the year with an incomplete. It is really sad and I must say I am disappointed but I pushed and prodded as much as I felt I should have needed to. They simply were not very motivated and squandered their year.

Now I am off to eat my dinner and perhaps some fudge in a mug