A crisp tuesday!

Today was a little colder than I like but it turned out to be a beautiful day. When I hung laundry on the line my fingers froze. Now I get them line ready before I head out. I straiten all of them and make sure they are all turned right side in. I hang up all the hang up shirts on hangers and put them on the line hanger and all...makes it fast. I am learning how to do the hanging with great speed. I might start timing myself just for fun. Also I don't hang up socks it takes too much time. I have a large trampoline out back where the line is and I just lay them (more like toss) out and they dry just fine. When they are dry I send a kid and a basket out to gather all the socks. The trampoline has the netting on it so the wind can blow them all over and they stay on the trampoline. OK...I am rambling.

I was hoping that my Mikey would be fine by today but he is not quite "well" yet. For no reason that I can find he has had a temp sense Sunday morning. Today I thought he would be over it but here I am still dosing him with meds. Once the meds are in him no one in the world would think he was sick, there are no other symptoms. And he runs and plays for about 4 hours until the fever hits again. Then he is whiny, clingy, and looks miserable. Then I dose him and up he goes. grrrrr so frustrating but I know this will pass. I hope he breaks the fever tonight.

Toni is having fun and I think she is making up homework so she can spend more time in study. Today she said they had to find out if things sank or floated and report it back to the teacher. I could not find anything like this in her folder. I know that when the teacher assigns home work it is written out so the parents know. But just to amuse my Dear Daughter (DD) I gave in and let her do her experiment around the house. She made a chart (and wrote all the words, such pretty handwriting) and had tons of fun doing this with about 5 items. Then after we cleaned up she informed me that she needed to do it with 10 items. I told her next time to remember those details BEFORE we start because I really don't think this was homework anyway. She did her real homework in about 2 min. That is about how long her work is everyday. I love her but she drives me crazy....I still don't love school and I know she does. Also I am still reading a few books and kids. The one I read today talked about how every child is different and it is important to learn where your kid can do homework best. The book suggested that we simply ask the kid where they think they would be able to best work on the homework. So I did this. Toni said upstairs away from all the noise. She said she wants her desk moved back up there so she can have a quite place to work and think. OK...so my kid wants a desk, quite, and alone. This is funny to me because I work best in large comfy chair with stuff in my lap. I need music to keep me on task and it helps if people are around because I feel more like I am not missing out on the life around me. I am so glad I asked her. If you give my girl a paper and crayons she goes to the table and colors, if you give the same stuff to Mikey he lays on the floor. They are like night and day. Just thought I would share.

Love to all.