Well, today we were diligent students until about 12:30. We had a picnic lunch again -- sandwiches, pretzels, fruit & veggies. The kids enjoyed smoothie-popsicles while I read a story from Mrs. Piggle Wiggle. They LOVE those stories and her ingenious solutions to every-day, real-life kid problems! Today was about table manners. :) I think I have forgotten to insist upon some of the manners, so they found it quite amusing as well as informative. (i.e. Jared didn't realize he should wipe off his milk-moustache every time he took a sip of milk!)

This afternoon Emily & I read more of The Hobbit. She keeps begging for another chapter, but I had to get the car washed this afternoon. While washing up the old Herbie, I noticed two old tires. I was moving one of them and it took off down the hillside very quickly. It rolled across the road & all the way down to Jones Creek. The kids thought that was incredible. After we dried Herbie Sr., we all hiked down the hill to find it. Marci found it first, but Emily brought it back up to the garage. She's buttering me up for a couple books that are in the surprise box. A ten-minute task for two books. Hmmmm. Not quite enough work in my book. So, now she's making me dinner (chicken quesadillas!)

Briella is noticing signs of spring for her Math Meeting book. We are amazed at the transformation as the leaves pop out! Titus is showing me the surprise from K12 for guessing a riddle in an e-mail or something like that. Jared is telling me about a picture in his latest Nature Friend magazine. The rest is self-explanatory & my dinner is ready!!!