Day 126

I didn't post yesterday after a very long day of cleaning. Normally I don't spend the whole day cleaning my house, but we had to let a realtor show it to someone for our landlord. Maybe if I spent more time cleaning, I wouldn't have had to do it all yesterday. We really liked the realtor, so we had her come over today to see about helping us find a house to buy now that our other one has sold. I'm becoming very tempted to buy the one we live in.

We decided to buy the traffic cones. The other kids will be able to use them too. So Jeff took Rachel out yesterday to teach her how to get through the course. It was pretty fun. But we went to a church parking lot today and found they had cones all set up for people to use! I guess we didn't actually have to buy them, but they're used now so. Rachel did a great job; she's totally ready. Of course.

Rachel practiced finding the volume of a cylinder with Sam and Sarah. They're getting close to end of the Pre-Algebra book. They're pretty excited. After we get the book finished, we're going to review everything and use Ray's Arithmetic to do real-life problems--from 100 years ago! I love those problems. Especially now that I learned that thing about ratios last week.

We're reading Jane Eyre. We've only read a couple chapters; and although it's kind of depressing so far, it's well-written. And Rachel says it gets less sad. I think we'll like it. The kids went to the youth activities at church tonight, and Sarah made "slime" out of glue, water and borax. It's a total homeschool thing, even though we've never done it. Does that make me a bad homeschool mom? Nope! The stuff is like the texture of egg white, and it breaks in half like styrofoam or something. Very weird.

She also did a quiz thing with real life questions like when are taxes due? and how many pints in a quart? and how much would a family of 5 spend at the grocery each month? She didn't know when taxes were due, but she knew most of the other questions. She said the other girls said a family would spend $400 a month at the grocery. Sarah said $1000. It's actually more than that for us with our food allergies, though. Sounds like fun activity. Rachel played chair soccer and Sam planned a campout for this Friday with the scouts. All in all a good evening.

See you tomorrow!

Oh, and we got some cute pictures of Eliza. You want to see, right?