Well, we all survived the first day of school! It's kinda like turning 30...you fuss and fret about it, but then after you're there, it's not a big deal. Zach doesn't have his unit study curriculum yet, but I showed him the website and what it's gonna be like, and now he's really looking forward to it. We then looked at a website that has fabulous art projects. We picked out a paper mache chicken! The one on the site is actually a Native American inspired bird, but Zach really wanted a chicken. He started that today. We reviewed multiplication tables and wrote out ones he struggled with. Then I had him write a bit about what he did this summer and corrected it for capitalization and spelling. William was a champion interrupter, but I actually got my book started and walked on the treadmill at the same time for 15 minutes!

Heard the TV referred to recently as "the Great Life-Suck"! Isn't that great!?

Did you know that Da Vinci said, "Small rooms discipline the mind, large ones weaken it"? I feel very triumphant and disciplined in the mind, then, because we have a house of pretty small rooms! Yay! I think even a lack of storage disciplines the mind, too, because if you see the messes and can't just throw it into a cupboard, you're forced to come up with an intelligent solution. Yes, I am still heady from my recent fall cleaning upstairs. =) I remember watching this show on TV awhile back where this very wealthy family in Arizona was going to build themselves a HUGE, sprawling mansion because they were "outgrowing" their old mansion. And they had only 2 very small kids. I remember commenting to Chris that it must be nice to just build a huge new place to store your ever accumulating stuff rather than sort, get rid of, throw out, and give away your stuff like the rest of us peons!