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Yes, it's been 2 weeks. Mardi Gras happened, y'all. I let Colleen know we were a bit off and were likely to drag Rr out over 2 weeks, and somehow I still got to doing most days without the lesson. To be honest, since Dylan and I have come to the (what I think is a) conclusion of sending Paul to school come August, it's been really hard to want to do this at home. Not that this, in an of itself, isn't quite fun, really, but if I know I only have about 4 more months of life as I've known it - at-home-momming, full of playdates and picnics - why are we not going to the zoo! and the aquarium! and taking the ferry! everyday! Why am I putting the pressure on myself - and all of us - to keep this certain structure?

Then we sit down to do our Rr collage and start Ss, and Paul loves it. And he asks questions and is engaged, and it's wonderful. Then I wish it could always be this way.

It's easy to see that we haven't done school daily since before Mardi Gras because in this 10-day period, our little (chubba) JJ is now on the move! It was pretty distracting trying to do the lesson with an almost 9month old crawling to the book, then the board, then the scissors - ah! - and the glue. Paul and Ada thought it was hilarious, which, in turn, made me laugh it off, too. It's not the baby's fault we do all this stuff on the floor instead of at a table in some ideal homeschool nook.

Without further ado, here is our Rr work, I'll call it, as it most certainly was not a week.

And in all of this time, we only managed one family rosary decade. Sigh. Partly Mardi Gras' fault, but partly just our typical evening chaos' fault.