Day 36

We had to put the first coat of paint on the living room of the other house today. We're excited about how bright and big the room looks. We wish we had done it years ago. We're going to have to do a second coat in a day or two, because there are some thin spots. Then we'll get the carpeting scheduled. The realtor says she has someone that might be interested. They've asked a couple questions about the house anyway. Cross your fingers!

Wilson is taking some psychology classes this semester, and he sent me and Jeff a survey about a photo of a baby. We were supposed to rate our reactions to the baby on things like does it seem timid or gentle or alert. I got all excited when I opened the email; I thought it was going to be a picture of Eliza. It's been 2 days since I saw her on Skype. Thank goodness for Skype! I miss them all very much.

We didn't have much school today because of the painting, and we went straight from the old house to church for youth activities. Sam played frisbee outside with the other boys. They probably had some interesting rules or twist or something. Rachel's group of girls took turns standing in front of the chalkboard, and they all wrote nice things about the girl standing there and took her picture with all her nice qualities written around her. It was cute. Sarah's group was painting! She finished her painting last week though, so she sat and talked to them. I sat there too and talked to some of the adults helping out. It was nice.

Math wasn't nice today though. We were all tired and not looking forward to painting--actually to going to the other house. We didn't mind the painting once we got there. It just seems so far away. It's only just over half and hour. We have to go back and cut the grass this week on top of putting on another coat of paint though. And Jeff is working a long week, so it's without him. So I don't want to talk about math. Let's just say there was complaining and yelling. Why is school so hard? It seems like it should be so easy. Laugh, love, learn; right? They did copywork too, but I didn't even look at it. That's ok, I'll have another chance to look at copywork.

See you tomorrow!