Healthy.... something and wise....

Ohhhhh I'm doing everything by the book today... Nothing like a bout of illness to make me compliant.... I have been quite consistent with my inhaled saline and I am pretty sure that it has kept me healthier than I would be usually. We have come into contact with numerous sick people... colds... coughs... yucky noses... and I have stayed remarkably well. I think that there is a huge possibility that not having the boys in school bringing home oodles of germs is probably having an impact too. Our school lives are starting more and more to become Unschooled.

Balance-shpalance

We seem to be a little "all or nothing" these days. Just when I thought that balance is the key... we have a day that goes well, where "haphazard" seems to be the best way to describe it. At one point today after NOT having Gus write anything... Gus asked me to LET him write (at a time when I had neither the time nor intention of having him write....) Maybe the hands off approach and zero pressure (as opposed to my recent approach of zero-tolerance) actually might work. Today we were as close to Unschooled as you could be... and it was great AND they each did lots of math... and they both tried to recite a poem I've been reading to them AND they both painted without fighting AND they played together at Gene's game... Why ask why....

AND to top off this extraordinary day it looks like we might be able to hope for a better America... Obama is going to win....