A Quick Note Before the School Day Starts

First I got almost all the tax stuff copied off yesterday. I have a few more that I have to do for people that don't come often. I was afraid that I would run out of ink before I got through them all so I marked those and did the others. I think I will have enough to finish though so I gave those to Betty Sunday. I gave the one I was worried about the most to her to make sure she signed it and got it to the member I was talking about before. Betty said "I don't think she understands how busy you are or how bad things have been. No one else is worried about it." Still I feel bad. There is no law as to when churches have to have those ready but every one else has to have their's in the mail by the 31st of January. I really had intended to have them out by then too but with everything that happened I ended up a week behind.

On a change of subject I am really please with my youngest's math program. I had seen it at a Homeschool convention a couple of years ago and it made so much sense. There has been quite a learning curve for me though. It's not exactly like the more traditional program that I did with the other boy so at time's I have wondering if I was doing it right.

Normally at this stage the other boys would be learning to add and subtract one and two digit numbers. My youngest has been adding up to 15 digit numbers. First he learned basic addition and subtraction using his fingers, believe it or not; then he went on the the addition he has been doing. Monday he started to review the subtraction he knew, and today he will start the same system of subtraction that he used for addition.

I have felt as times we were going slow for my sake as well as his and wondered if we would finish in time. When I checked though we were actually a little ahead of schedual. If all goes well, I'll be ordering his next book next pay day and we will work on it in April and May.

Of course, as with all children, some days are better than others. The days when he gets to practice addition and subtraction using "Oreo Thin Crips" are his favorite because he gets to eat his results. It's not recommended by the book but it sure is fun and keeps him at it a little longer. So every once in a while,(not often or he'd look like the Good Year Blimp,)we do it.

I plan to give my second yougest, (or third oldest depending on how you look at it,) the day off. He has the flue and went on a mission with CAP yesterday to look for a missing person. They found him but my son is pretty washed out. He got out of bed long enough to walk across the house and crawl into my bed and that's where he's at now. I should have kept him home but they really needed him. I hope he didn't make everyone else sick.

Well I guess I had better close this and get started on the school day. I think that it will be a slow and easy day today but that's OK I could really use one of those right about now.