September 10, 2024

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• I think that I might have had an epiphany today-actually, I'm not even sure if I used that correctly. Let me google it...yes, epiphany is used close enough to correct. Anyway, Whitman has been doing 5 school things and then taking a 10 minute break. 
• He has a ton of things on his list each day to do-some take time like math but some are super short like review a poem. During one of his breaks today he was in the hammock that the girls set up yesterday. Graham thought that he had been out there too long, but I realized to just let him be. He will eventually get his work done.
• And it is true-he does get his work done. Today though he still had two things to do at 3, and one of those was reading. For reading, he was reading a book about coding so he took my computer and read and coded for another hour. 
• So my realization is that since him dragging his school work out most of the day doesn't bother him at all; then I really shouldn't let it bother me. I need to keep him moving, but I'm not going to stress about it....just as long as I am done with the helping part by early afternoon. 
• I think that most everyone spent some time in the hammocks today-maybe not Anderson though. I went outside at one point and thought that Bentley was sharing a hammock with Campbell. But no, Bentley had her own hammock and just was relaxing in the sun.
• Graham had school this morning, and Anderson later in the day. Graham is a bit ahead in his math class while Anderson is right on target for his english class. And maybe since they were gone some today, or maybe because people just had their act together, but for some reason this was the very first day in a while that I had a break this afternoon. The school days lately have been long, but today was a nice break.
• Robby, Keaton, and I took Campbell to her soccer practice, and then we ran some errands before picking her up again. Soccer is 2 hours which means that we get home fairly late, and now there are just a few minutes before bed. around here.