Day One Down…

And the rest of their lives to go.

We did our first “official” day of school today. Bugs woke up this morning begging to do school. It was all we could do to hold her off until after breakfast and seeing Daddy off to work.

The day started with chocolate French Toast for a special breakfast (two chocolate jiffy muffin mixes baked at 400 in a bread/loaf pan for about 40 minutes, prepared the night before) and then turned into French Toast this morning. We served strawberries on top and it was yummy!

The girls got their start of school presents and loved them. We had to convince them to move their goodies for breakfast. After we ate, we had family devotion time and Dad got ready for work while I packed his lunch and got laundry sorted and the table cleared.

After Daddy left, school commenced. Bugs insisted we do EVERYTHING at the kitchen table. Even the read alouds.  Which, since we went with Sonlight this year, there are a lot! We were finished in about 45 minutes for the day, including the extra handwriting and a few extra tracing worksheets. Beans sat with us, listened to me reading and colored with her new triangular markers. She loves her markers (she hates crayons for some reason. Her Sunday School teacher took to bribing her with animal crackers to get her to color with them so she could send home a colored paper with her like all the other kids would do. Beans loves markers and paints but really dislikes crayons for some reason). After we were done with school, I let my munchkins use their new paints.

All in all, it was a good time. The kids liked it, we accomplished all we needed to and now they are playing. It wouldn’t surprise me if Bugs comes to me later asking to do school again today.

Well, time to swap out loads of laundry and clean the breakfast dishes. And start eggs for egg salad for lunch. Then I need to tackle the deep cleaning of the living room. It needs over hauled today. We are moving the big roll top desk into the guest room and really converting that into a study. Bugs had bout outgrown her toddler bed, so we are moving the twin bed from the guest room into the girls’ room for her, letting Beans have the toddler bed and totsally rearranging stuff. And it has to be done by Friday as my MIL has decided to come out for a few days. She is bringing us a portable air conditioning unit. I’m glad. I’m sick of roasting or being cooped up in our room all day with the ancient window unit in our room with two kids bouncing off the walls.

Ok, really going now. Talk to you all later.

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