It took a full week of home schooling, but on the sixth day Ella made it through all five subjects with nary a tear in sight. Last week's crying was sponsored by:
- Math (double digit addition)
- Math (double digit subtraction)
- Mom's inability to find seeds anywhere to do the "make something grow!" science experiment (yes, I actually do understand planting season ended long ago, Mr. Home Depot employee. But science is for all seasons apparently! And also I didn't open up the teacher's guide and find out about the needed seeds until class started, so please stop looking at me like that.)
- Mabel getting to "do whatever she wanted" (re: destroy my house) while Ella had to do school work.
- Mabel making Matty laugh while Ella had to do school work. That's HER job.