Of course! Kind of has a way of doing that. It's cold and windy today but the boys collected leaves for their first biology unit. Even my oldest drew and labeled them which is not his 'thing', but he can now tell me the difference between lobate, toothed, compound etc leaves. That's all I can ask! My little ones have started a roly-poly farm. (and do you know you can google Roly Polys--or 'polie's? polys looks better--- and find out all manner of things about them?) By they way, they aren't insects...they're arthropods. Just in case you wanted to know.  

 It's funny the topics you can turn into a 'unit of study'! And the best topics seem to be the ones the kids discover themselves. We now have a roly-poly 'zoo' in the bug cage, they've printed out pictures of roly polies to add to their science notebooks....

Add to that a bout with stomach flu, the dog nearly escaping and me cleaning the bathroom within a square inch of its life(why--I don't know. I suppose because it makes me feel like I'm doing something productive!), choosing fabric to sew dresses and skirts, watching Seven Brides for Seven Brothers for the umpteenth time, and you have a good picture of our first week without Steve. It seems so much longer but I know that will get better too. It has to!