Waiting for Pizza...

Yes, it's pizza night. I was just about to commence bolognese preparation when I realized it was Wednesday...nice! Well, but then my sweet husband forgot it was pizza night, which is a problem only in that he is the one who picks up said pizza. Okay, reminded him about it close to 5:30...oh, but then, sadly, he called to say he had gotten locked out of his office. His keys were inside on his desk. Hmmm...no keys means no driving the car, which means no pizza (and no husband, for that matter). But hurray! Turns out a guy was still there who could let Dave in. So the oven is nice and hot, and I am waiting for pizza.

The kids are "getting their energy out" on the wii..."Outdoor Adventure," to be precise. We had wonderful visitors today after school ended...very dear friends who have 3 kids that match up well with 3 of our kids. Much fun was had, and of course I took pictures. I believe my baby girl is beginning to think I have a big black camera growing out of the middle of my face. The bigger kids smile patiently for me, and they have found that the more quickly they assume the pose I request, the sooner the whole thing is done and they can go back to their playing. Someday, someone will enjoy this ridiculously large collection of digital photos I have stored away on my computer and on the external hard drive (there are over 15,000 now, which is more than a little scary to me). (And I sure hope nothing "crashes" and erases it all. But I'm not going to think about that now.)

On to our school day. Things were pretty much as always...I had a little less energy than yesterday, but not too noticeably. In Grammar, it was mostly review. The kids had to compose sentences and then change them to "improved" sentences. I never liked that exercise much, and I don't think my kids do either. Good practice, I suppose.

In History, Wulf is leaving the court (King Harold) and heading back to the countryside, where he spent his childhood. He expects to learn about managing land and people, as well as training people to fight.

I worked out during Latin...it tired me out appropriately. Bailey read from Robin Hood after we had Minestrone leftovers (yum!) For Science, we tried some candy experiments. Sadly, the "floating M's" didn't work very well...the M's were supposed to release from the candies and float to the surface of the water. It DID work with the Skittles, however, and we saw some very fun S's floating around. On the other hand, we soaked the color off the different colors of Skittles in order to make a rainbow. The colors should have temporarily maintained separation due to variations in solute load, but it didn't really work out. We must not have done it right...but it was still fun. And it smelled luscious! Bailey and I declined eating the wet, sticky leftover Skittle centers, but the kids liked them just fine.

I realized we forgot to do Geography today...will have to try for tomorrow. We'll be looking at Western Samoa!

Last of all, we organized some things in the History and Astronomy notebooks, Dane finished his Vocabulary, and both older kids did their first "Spelling Wisdom" spelling tests. They did very well...I think it will get tougher as we go along.

Ah...pizza has ARRIVED!!! Husband has also ARRIVED!!! Soon, happiness will ARRIVE as my tummy stops grumbling...:) GOOD DAY!!