DH has been gone for 8 days.  He gets back tonight -- Thank you Lord!

DD#2 has been complaining the entire time, you would think I was a tyrant who lives to hang her upside down and pull out her toenails while tickling her and shining bright lights in her eyes.  I promise I don't, but according to her when she doesn't get her way I am the meanest mommy in the world and she only wants daddy and why can't we call him and so on and so on and so on.

DD#1 has been inventing new and creative ways to drag out her school work -- I never realized that one page in Math U See Gamma and one page of manuscript in A Reason for Handwriting can take 3 hours -- but it can, but she can "Accidentally" read the entire book Red Sand, Blue Sky and not remember the answer for the single question she has to answer so she HAS to reread the chapter, and she will "Accidentally" read the entire entry for Australia in World Book even though I showed her that the answer for question number 50 would be found in the two paragraphs I just highlighted.  UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now DS will very quickly get all his work done -- but I have to slow him down so he will write legibly -- he is trying to make a stop action Lego movie (Do they make 100 gigabyte cards for my camera?)

Oh yeah -- Did I mention my husband gets home tonight?