We really enjoy April Fool's. My husband and I always trick our kids to some extent. It's so much fun. They always retaliate with silly things, like ringing the doorbell and acting like someone else is there.

     We had a good homeschool week. (Our homeschool starts on Sat. and ends on Wed.) I decided to go from 5 days a week to 4. I used to just have two short days, but decided that that was just causing me more stress, so now I do my grocery shopping and cleaning all in one day (Wed.). The other days we learn from 8-2. I started working on my MBA again this week, so I work on it now from 1-2 while the kids read quietly. That has been working pretty well so far. Ds4 wrote his name for my husband last night. He was so excited. He's doing pretty well. We considered sending him to a private school next year where he would learn his subjects in English in the morning and then, Arabic in the afternoon. But, my husband had a presentation there today and he wasn't impressed. He said that kids were fighting in the halls. I wouldn't want ds4 to pick up any bad habits so young. We'll just have to get a tutor for the Arabic instead. The university my husband works at would pay for my children to go to school. We are hoping that next year we could convince them to pay for the books from one of the schools, so that I can teach them at home. Knowing how the university operates, it probably won't work if they know we're homeschooling.

Well, everything is going great in Saudi. Have a great day!