Science World went well yesterday. The kids got in for free and the adults had to pay $3.25. What a great deal if you go as a school group. The ferry to get off our peninsula still costs an arm and a leg though! If you remember, my ex was meeting us there, which was nice for the kids. He has not come to one of their events for about 4 years. He lives about 4 hours away but is kinda self absorbed at times. It was nice to see how excited my daughter was to have her dad along. He acts like a big kid so that was amusing to all the tweens. Notice how postive and kind I am being...





Here is a reason to not blog while children are unsupervised: I just went downstairs to find the family room rearranged. Mr. J moved everything but the couch across the room, which he proudly announced when I remarked on how busy he had been. He then asked if I would take a picture.


We are having a mellow day today- it is a rainy and gray. Since A and K are away with their dad till tomorrow, I was going to clean instead of teach. So far I haven't got much done except to scrub the beige carpet downstairs as I left little M diaperless because he has a rash. Mr J came running upstairs gasping and very excitedly calling out that his little brother pooed on the carpet. As he guided me downstairs to see where the "incident" took place, he announced that if I stood at the top of the stairs I could "smell it ALREADY!". It was not pretty...