Aaggh, where does one start?  With last night or this morning, or this afternoon?

I started to write this over an hour ago.  When I started to write, my son was taking a nap on the couch.  This is a boy who never sleeps during the day.  Since he had a hard time falling asleep last night, I just chalked it up to unusual tiredness.  Since I didn't want him awake all night I went to wake him up--and found him burning up with a fever.  Got the thermometer and found his temp between 103-104.  He woke up cheerfully, but it was soon obvious that he is not feeling well, and says his throat is sore.  So anti-fever medication and a box of apple juice later, he is sitting on the floor playing.  I don't know how long that will last.

Putting two and two together, I had woken him up this morning, and he had a fever then too.  Just figured he had gotten warm sleeping, as it dropped soon after he was awake.  So now we push the Vitamin C on everyone, hoping no one else catches whatever is going on.

With hindsight that is twenty-twenty, this is probably the reason that lessons did not progress smoothly this morning.  We got the work done, but everyone was sluggish, and we didn't have the excitement of yesterday at all.

On another note, we have come to the conclusion that the spelling program I was using for Belle is not a good fit for her.  When she is crying on day two, and I am at a complete loss about what to do about it, it is time to consider something else.  This is not a new thing.  We struggled last year, and I tweaked the program to try to make it work for us, but this year it doesn't seem to fit us at all.  I ended up having her alphabetize a list of words, which she did with no trouble, but she struggled to read them without context to help her.  After class, I reached back in my memory bank for the name of a resource I had looked at in the past, and finally remembered that it is the one that Sonlight currently recommends.  Developed by someone with Dyslexia, it uses patterns in words to teach spelling.  So my order is in, and we will find things to do with words until it comes in.

Needless to say, the afternoon lessons were canceled today, and I spent an hour with a very hot boy snuggling close.