Woke up at 6:30 a.m. Yahoo! That's sleeping in for me. Because Becky has been staying up so late and then being such a grouch in the morning, I had her sleep in our room like she used to back when she was little. She was still sound asleep on the floor in her bean bag and blankets. Rick got up to take a shower.
Fed pets, cleaned up kitchen and ran dishwasher. Made coffee and checked email. Baked some cornbread for breakfast. Took a shower. Aunt Jackie's caregiver took care of her this morning. Usually we don't have her on Tuesdays but today the schedule was a bit mixed around. Rick left for work.
Got the kids up at 8:30 ish. Josh took shower. Becky came down and ate breakfast and we chatted. She was in a much better mood having slept for 10 hours. Seano was the sleepy head this morning and didn't come down until after 9:00. I felt a little rushed as a result because his math tutor comes at 10. Read Little Orphant Annie out loud to Becky and Sean. James Whitcomb Riley is our poet of the month. Becky liked it, Sean is turned off by the dialect. I think he sees it as too cute. Read a very short bit from The Creed in Slow Motion about the hypostatic union of God and Man in Jesus Christ. Read about Alexander the Great from A Little History of the World. Becky knew the whole story of Alexander from a Jim Weiss audio and kept correcting poor professor Gombrich's story. Becky also was writing out emails to her older sister during this time. Sean laid on the couch under a cover refusing to wake up. A few minutes before 10 I realized that Sean was still in his pjs and hadn't eaten any breakfast. He quickly ran upstairs and changed and then opted to make a pb&j and was just finishing it up when the doorbell rang. Mrs Zinn had arrived!
What was Josh doing all this time? He grabbed a plate of cornbread and headed to the computer downstairs. Supposedly he was working on precalculus. When I went down to check on him after the tutor arrived, he was reading email. He said he'd been working and was taking a break. He's going to check in with the tutor when she's done with Sean. Hopefully, this will provide the external motivation he seems to need so much in order to get stuff done!
While Sean was with tutor Becky and I orally did one of our Aquinas Learning sheets - namely the civics one. We read the Preamble of the Constitution out loud and discussed what it meant. Then Becky did the Catechism sheet on the Two Greatest Commandments. I said she could do it orally but she wanted to be independent and write out the answers to the discussion questions herself. So be it! Then Becky helped me brainstorm about crafts for our Aquinas Learning Center. She showed me a craft we could do in the preschool with tissue paper.
Tutor finished up with Sean. Sean really likes her! She made him feel smart! Josh met with her briefly to get some accountability for the pace of his precalc work.
Becky started practicing playing Good King Wenceslas on the piano. Yesterday at her AHG meeting they began practicing Christmas carols for when the troop visits a home for the elderly Dec. 17th. This got her all excited about Christmas songs. Last night when I was out shopping for pants for Sean, Rick taught her how to play it on the piano and she's been practicing off and on last night and this a.m.
Sean immediately went downstairs after his lesson to play videogames and watch old Simpson episodes. Josh ate leftover spaghetti for lunch and then I took him to his Chemistry class at 12:15. Came home and Becky and Sean were watching a Phineas and Ferb cartoon. I then fed Sean and Becky tater tots and cheese and crackers for lunch. Left Sean at home playing video games (I think) and took Becky to her art class. Ran to Michael's to pick up some supplies for our Aquinas Learning center. Picked up Josh from Chem (also another classmate who needed a ride home).
Came home, putzed around for a few minutes. Called Sean up from basement to do his Test 3 from Saxon. He is not happy. At all. Prepared a roast chicken for dinner. Josh is downstairs on his computer playing something. . . . Sean's friend Jack called him just as he was finishing up his test. So I told Sean to call him back when he had finished completely which he did.
Took Josh to cross country practice, then immediately drove to pick up Becky from friend's house (friend picked her up from art class). Miscalculated the time I had to pick up Josh. For some reason I thought it was 5:15 instead of 5:45. Drove back to cross country. Becky wanted to be independent and walk around by herself but it was already dark. So we compromised by me following behind her while she walked ahead. I was a little miffed about her attitude until I remembered that she'd slept all night in my room! Walked over to gas station store and let her buy some nacho cheese chips while we waited. She was generous and let me have one, LOL. Remembered that I'd put a chicken in the oven and it was going to be in for 2 hours by the time I got home. Called home but nobody answered. Fortunately Josh returned early from his run with a couple of boys. Pulled him out early and drove home. Chicken was alright. Sean had been on the phone the whole time. Warned him about hogging the phone and not answering the call waiting beep when I am out of the house! Becky has been singing Christmas carols all day. It was cute this morning but now I am already a bit weary of them! Oh good, she just announced that that was enough practice for now. Her new project is to decorate our pretty wooden dollhouse that sits in our family room for Christmas. She's busy dusting and arranging everything now. Wow, Christmas is coming early this year. Hannah and Will come home next Tuesday and then Thursday is Thanksgiving.
Had chicken, rice, cucumbers, red bell peppers, and grapes for dinner. Becky cleared the table, Sean loaded the dishwasher. Josh and I did 1/2 our Latin homework for tomorrow. We resolved to resume it again at 8 tomorrow. Becky watched some Zoom shows at the PBS website. Rick came home, ate, we said night prayers and he then read Son of Neptune to Becky and Sean. Hannah called and I talked to her for a while.
So that's it! Good night!
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