May get a little better

A bit of an update:

After Dean got home from work and had read my May day post, he lectured Isaac some — he compared homework to a job where you sometimes have to do things the way your boss wants you to do them, even though you think your way would be better. I asked Ike whether the lecture had helped him change his attitude and he said, “Yeah, some.” Then Ike had to finish a “Quizzle” for school and had gotten messed up at some point, so I created a new grid for him in Word so he could start over without having to erase all his dark pencil marks, and after he’d re-done the Quizzle and found the right answers, he was sincerely grateful for my help. Then it was his bedtime, but today he finished four of his five book report illustrations quite painlessly — they’re still black-and-white, but he did do them the correct size, and he even took my suggestion about adding a fence. (It turned out he’d been picturing a chain-link fence, which would still show the wolf and man behind it and therefore wouldn’t solve the problem of easily filling in the margins of the picture. Once he realized I meant a solid wood fence, he thought it was a great idea.)

Also I just finished a fun sewing project (pictures coming soon) and Dean is installing some new light fixtures in the kids’ rooms — one of them is already in, and it looks quite nice. Oh, and last night Dean and I finally bought plane tickets to take the kids on a trip to Washington D.C. after school gets out, which is a big relief since I thought we’d never agree on flights — he kept finding less-costly flights at what I thought were very inconvenient times to fly — but I got online myself last night and found some flights that were medium-priced (we saved money by not taking nonstop flights, but spent more to fly on the days/times I preferred) and we were both satisfied enough with that compromise to go ahead and order the tickets.

So that’s the current state of things.

(This post is pretty much of the genre where I tell you everything I did today including what I ate for breakfast (granola) but, although I’ll admit to having sometimes lofty ambitions to write actually interesting posts, yet at the same time I must remind you (my poor, bored reader) that it’s my blog — and it’s imaginary. Which can sometimes make for a dull combination. (Also, I ate smoked oysters and Oreos for lunch — not necessarily a boring fact, but perhaps not something you wanted to know.)

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