School is FUN!!!!

Haha...looks like my posts are creeping slightly earlier and earlier each night...good thing...I need more rest! If I keep this up, I'll be able to put myself to bed by 10pm....oh, my...can't really imagine that happening anytime in my adult life. But miracles do happen, right? (The miracle would be me WANTING to go to bed by 10, in case you don't know me well.)

Should keep this short since we have company staying (Raoul & Jamie--yay!) We had such a super-fabulous-terrific-outstanding school day today that I can hardly believe we were learning. But we were! THEY were! One high point for me was when 4-yr-old Beau looked up from his puzzle play on the floor during Henty read-aloud time and asked, "Mom, did you just say that the guy had a SWORD???" Hahahaha...YES!!! A sword, a shield, a battle...awesome stuff! All in 870 A.D. Three days ago I could not have told you ANYTHING about what life was like for people who lived in 870 A.D. Today I could. Cool! Also very wonderful today was that 9-yr-old Dane made us all waffles (Eggo), scrambled eggs, and apple slices for breakfast. Woo hoo!!! I heard someone in the kitchen when I got up, but I was so pleasantly thrilled that breakfast was ready for everyone. Good job, Dane!! Then, after Bible, I went up to nurse the baby and when I came back down, the older kids had begun their Math on their own. Nice! Bailey took the pre-schoolers today, so I got to enjoy Language Art stuff with the olders. Kat read a story and narrated it back to me beautifully. Shurley assignment today was journal-writing...I caught both kids writing in their new journals a number of times later in the day...on their "own" time...sigh...I'm liking it.

VERY exciting news today was the birth of Chesterton Merryman Hyink. That's baby #5 for the Hyink family, and I got to take them their first meal. I cried when I held that gorgeous baby boy...born at 5:14am, so he was SO BRAND NEW!!!!!

Also attended a cocktail party at the neighbor's house, as a courtesy. I'm not really in the market to be a direct seller right now. I have ENOUGH going on, I'd say...;) The company is Trump Enterprises...customized vitamins. We'll see where it goes for Val.

Time for sleep! Tomorrow is a free day...we are going to go ride the Seattle Ferry to Bainbridge Island with the Langin family (visiting from Kentucky). Maybe we can look up some stuff about the ferries after and keep having fun doing schooooooooooool! :)