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Life has been pretty slow. That's been nice.

We started keeping a regular homeschool schedule again last week. That's been a little tougher. Scheduling "homeschool" time has been the best way to make sure we find time to read aloud together. But, after more than a month of doing other things, no one is as excited about reading aloud as they are about playing the GameCube. Everyone says they want to read, but then they're all too busy. It doesn't help that with Tamzin out of school we go to bed much later, get up much later, and don't get around to reading until mid afternoon. By then everyone wants to be off doing their own thing.

We finished Great Expectations (finally). They all liked it, but I think it was too long. We're reading a short one called Pandora of Athens now.

Tamzin refuses to let me read to her at all, unless it's a stall to avoid bedtime. Even then, she will sometimes opt for a few minutes on her Gameboy over time with me.

We were all sick last week. The ailment varied depending by family member, but included sore throats, coughs, fever, and lots of stuffy runny noses. I stayed pretty busy fetching and carrying and catering to sick ones, so they would know I was taking them seriously. Often I am not so nurturing, being sidetracked with other things. So I'm proud of that. Mostly we're better now. A little stuffiness here and there, but subsiding every day.

I've been inputting recipes into Publisher in my spare time. I guess that's my big accomplishment for the week. Now I just need to start cooking!