Abby requested last night to "start school" again. So with that, I said, "Sure!"
She climbed into bed this morning with me around 8 am and we snuggled for a while. (Reason #267 that we homeschool, tee, hee. It's times like these I feel bad for the moms & kids who have to wake up at 6/6:30 am to rush around & get ready for the bus that comes around 7:30am!) 
We checked on Little Guy, who was sleeping, so I opened his door, and went to get breakfast. This is a switch, because when G&G were here, they said they usually heard him up early -- one time at 3:30 am! -- just playing as happily as can be. They were pretty impressed that we've trained him to stay in his room until we come and get him. So either he slept that long, OR he had gotten up early and got tired of playing and waiting for me to get him, and ended up going back to sleep. 
Little Guy came out of his room shortly and we had a leisurely breakfast. Then the kids got dressed, with breaks for playing. Finally, we started addition flashcards, and DD surprised me by not being too slow or making a lot of mistakes after 2 weeks off. We then took a lunchbreak and played for a bit.
Then it was time for Little Guy's nap and although he had a hard time going down (wanted to play -- I think he is outgrowing his afternoon nap. YIKES!), he finally fell asleep.
DD then dictated a story that I made into a handwriting worksheet for her at the www.handwritingforkids.com site. Afterwards, I let her do reading and she choose to read almost all of the first chapter of "The Little House in the Big Woods." She would stop and comment on it and ask questions. We then played "Spell Down" and Kids' Sequence and she worked in a great activity book that her great-aunt gave her for Cmas. We also read aloud "Just Plain Fancy." (A very cute book about a little Amish girl who hatches a peacock and is worried it's too fancy for her community!)
Here is Abby's story that she dictated to me today for handwriting:
Penny
Penny belonged to My Nye.
He did not feed her apples.
He yelled at her.
He beat her.
Felicity gave her apples.
She snuck out and rode Penny.
My. Nye was angry with Felicity.
Felicity helped Penny escape.
(Can you tell that she is an America Girl fan?) | 
