School Continues

The kids are still taking swimming lessons and both have decided they really like taking martial arts classes at the local Rec Center on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Unfortunately, they are in the evenings. I hate evening classes. They make my life longer. BUT. It seems to be working out well so far. I figured out how to get the hotspot to work and can get a crap-o-matic movie to play on my laptop and VIOLA! and extra 1 1/2 two times a week to get paperwork, update this, the animal tracking done and all those other tasks I never seem to get to done. The instructors keep pestering me to *join* to which I just laugh almost hyena like and the never going to happen chances of that. Not only would I be the *oldest* my joints would literally fall apart. Literally.

I intended to get a few pictures of the kids here before too long, but there's no way to get that done without being too conspicuous. 

Other than that, there's not much new going on. They eat and grow. I've been lousy about pictures lately too. Really lousy.

I need to get the kids to get behind a picture day and then remind me to get my camera out several times a day.

Our school revamp seems to have worked really pretty well. If you discount the few days of cheating that is. They both decided that they should *only* have to do the work on the new Easy Peasy they WANTED  to do. Oddly, this didn't sit as well with me as they thought it should. The going back over the entire months worth of days and REdoing it all was a bit of a learning experience for them I suppose. I am now double checking all their work daily. They are still making the same amount of progress in Math, Science, English and Spanish but without complaining because of the added variety - which was the intention.  I've noticed a BIG difference in The Boy's abilities in time and money skills too - which his textbook works don't honestly focused much on (and neither had we..)  So they are learning something in it all.