Nothing much to report here. Feeling like a failure homeschool wise, what with the arm wrestling to get folks to attend to their studies today. And I had a question on Imani’s crossword puzzle that she should have known, given how many times she watches the same Cosby episode over and over.

It was, ‘Dr. Huxtable took Rudy and her friends to watch this kind of show.’

She had no idea. I think Imani tried to fit the word, ‘placenta’ into the ‘vaudeville’ slot.

So that time spent watching Cosby was absolutely unredeemable. Good to know. I was like, “you act just like those kids on the Cosby show! When the parents ask them what they learned from this, they were like, ‘what?’” So that was awesome.

But after we got over that hump, I was able to get in there with Imani and talk about word roots and word meanings. She is good at spelling, but lacks understanding of word origins and definitions.

I have figured out how to give Joy and Esteban clues for their spelling crossword puzzles. They are able to solve their puzzles without much help. Focusing on the task at hand? Not so much. So there was that.

And then Xavier and I went to community college to take his entrance exams for summer semester. We were there for an hour, applying to the school, and decided to return later with a calculator to actually take the tests.

And then there was kitchen chores, dinner prep, helping Yanni with her laundry, working out, dinner, etc., all while dragging children through the paces of chores, helping with dinner, working out…
The little kids were more interested in playing today.

Wait, I guess that’s everyday.