Bonding with the babies??

As most of you know, in the last couple of months we have acquired not one, but two new family members.  We started out with one miniature schnauzer puppy, and somehow ended up with another one a few weeks later!  R LOVES the puppies, although we are trying to teach him how to be gentle with the "babies".  Right now we are working on NOT picking them up and carrying them around by their head!  They are so small right now, and I know he would never intentionally hurt them, but it is a full time job watching him as he "plays" with them!  This picture is one of the safer games he plays with them...at least we know none of them are getting into trouble this way! : )

What did you do over the holidays? We did Algebra...UGH!!

 

We focused on getting some major Algebra lessons done over the holidays.  The girls' curriculum is great in that they can do most of it on their own...with me providing some occasional guidance...and it works out great for us.  But T's pre-algebra is a different story.  She can't simply look at these lessons on the computer screen and figure out the concepts, so we have started going over each lesson together.  This works great except that this requires me to read over the lessons and dig way down deep in my brain to that stuff that I learned over 15 years ago (and hated every minute of it) and then teach it to her.  Needless to say, we don't get a lesson done every day, so we had a bit of an algebra marathon over the holidays.  T feels the same way I do about math, so she wasn't thrilled about our little marathon.  She keeps saying "But I am NEVER gonna use this stuff in real life."  And I just tell her that's what I thought, too...but God has ways of reminding to never say never!!