I spent the morning in school with the boys. My youngest did well but his older brother has gotten lazy from not having to do school work while he was sick. We'll have to over come that. The oldest two have each had a math test. The oldest had a test in Calculus that. He came home pretty down cast and said "Well I didn't get a 90." I held my breath, prayed for an 80% and asked "So what did you get?" At that point he smiled and said "100%". He really had me going.
His younger brother on the other hand had a little more trouble. I told him that he needed to be sure to use his formulas and he looked at me with that you don't know what you're talking about look and said "my instructor isn't hung up on formulas like you." That didn't make sense to me but what could I do? Well he came home yesterday and it looks like his instructor is more hung up on formulas than my son thought. He had taken a test and while most of his answers where right he got dinged left and right for mistakes in his formulas. My son ended up with a 50%. Now to get a B average he will have to get A's on all the rest of his tests.
I never can understand why my sons think I don't understand the way things work. It's as if they sometimes think I stepped out of the middle ages and have no idea of the modern world. He can't say at this point that I was right and he was wrong look at me and said that he was going to have to get a little more disciplined and pay attention to detail. Hard lesson learned. He cares a lot about grade average; that means this will stick with him longer than a weeks worth of nagging by me.
I made pancake mix today. It's cheaper than buying it and makes making pancakes as quick as the store bought name brand. I then made pancakes for the boys for lunch. The boys love pancakes, almost better than waffles. Once the mix is made it's easy, peesy and the guys walk around singing my praises for days. What more could you ask for.
Well I need to close for church. More later.
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Your a wonderful mom, your children are very blessed.
We had pancakes for supper on Tuesday. I hardly ever make them, but I do the same thing, I use homemade "bisquick" mix.
"...I stepped out of the middle ages and have no idea of the modern world" - cracked me right up! You are so right though! My boys think I'm a total dork. Then I'll surprise 'em. The other day I said something about people trying to start a flame war on my blog. My oldest son is amazed I even know what a blog is, let alone a flame war!
Oh, and uh, 100%??? Yikes, that is outstanding! You musta be grinning ear to ear!
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