July 23, 2024

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• I think that I could say that we all seem to be back in a routine after everyone's week gone and Whitman and my week here. It is kind of nice to be back in our little pattern-even if it is our crazy summer routines.
• This is the second day in a row that Graham has woken up early to run. Of course the last two days that he has done this, the weather has not been horrible like it was a few weeks ago when he was running at noon and it was 200 degrees outside.
• Whitman has started on some of his new school for next year. It is a brand new language arts program which I am super excited about. Today was really the first real day, and he didn't hate it. This is a program that says it does not go by grade level, so I could have probably bought Whitman the level below this one. However, I can already tell he is going to do great-the only problems he will have is with spelling. 
• Each day this curriculum has me dictate 2 or 3 sentences for him to write down. They have crazy words in them already like "peasant," "autumn," and "daughter." He doesn't have a chance at spelling any of those correctly, so we will do those sentences but we will still press on with our other spelling.
• Everyone but Whitman went to eat lunch today with the church group. They said that even though they ordered online, it took nearly an hour to get their food. I don't think they cared though since there were quite a few people there to visit with.
• When lunch was over, the boys went to play basketball. They played until after 5, and the girls went to TJ Maxx and shopped about that long. Reagan found a few more dorm things, and then she went to the bonus room to put them up and was surprised at all of her collection of things. (And really, we haven't gone overboard at all.)
• Reagan went to Bible study tonight and then a movie so she missed out on the spaghetti that the rest of us had for supper here. When supper was over, I spent a good deal of time buying textbooks for Reagan next year. 
• Now I'm going to find me a snack and possibly a tv show to watch-since everyone has been home, I just can not get into reading my books. I am not sure what is wrong with me right now, but I just can't read!