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Started our first official day with Sonlight. It was HORRIBLE!!!
Ethan lying on the couch whining "How many more chapters??" less than a chapter in to Mara, Daughter of the Nile. Alex read so far ahead of me that I had to move my thumb out of his way so he could finish reading. Christian got tired of waiting for me to finish with Alex and Ethan, and spent quite a bit of time telling me so.

Ethan did his reading lesson with just two mistakes (!!!) and did double math today because he was so excited.

Alex read three more chapters in The Teenager's Guide to the Real World and read about two more things in How Things Are Made : From Automobiles to Zippers and did his math without arguing.

After Christian read what he needed to in A History of Us he read part of the book I had pulled out for him, mumbling something about "I figured you wanted me to read at least two chapters."

So I guess it wasn't so bad after all. Tomorrow will be better.

We were going to start Sonlight last week, but Saturday my mom called that she was on her way to the hospital with chest pains. After they said they were most likely admitting her, Marty came home and we left for Ohio right away.

The next day they did all kinds of tests and let he go home. They aren't sure what was wrong, but are pretty sure it wasn't her heart attack.

We came home on Tuesday, and got nothing more than math done for the rest of the week.

Our first day of co-op was Thursday!!! It went really well. Alex tried really hard to not like drawing, but loves it! Christian is making a really cool set thingy for his LOTR Warhammer guys, and Ethan LOVED being my helper. My "The Seuss, the Whole Seuss and nothing but the Seuss" class is great! The kids are great, and the moms that helped are great. I think this class is going to be a lot of fun. This week we are reading "One fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish" and they are making paper Japanese fish kites. I circle punched a bunch of different colors and patters of paper for them to use to decorate them. The snack will either be Goldfish crackers or gummi fish in blue jello.

I am in the process of dying salt for this weeks "Craftin' at the Co-op" class. We are making sand (salt) art in pint sized canning jars. Salt is 25 cents a container, and I had the canning jars, so it is a pretty cheap and fun craft.

Sheesh I just realized just how boring my life seems to be lately. Not that it was uber exciting before, mind you...