The Census Bureau

Today I was visited by the Census Bureau. A tall man in his late 40's and smelled heavily of cigarette smoke came and asked me all of the "usual" questions. The house was in "a state" because I had just stripped the last of the wallpaper and school work was all over the table. He didn't seem to bothered and completed his survey in about 15 minutes on a lap top. He drove new a white convertable Mustang. Sheesh, being a Census taker must be a swell job huh? He shook my hand, thanked me and was out the door.

My children are scrambling to meet their deadline for Christmas break. December 13 and they should have all of their books done for the semester. I have a marker board for them and wrote out how many days they have left and how many books they each have to have done by then. My youngest daughter freaked. She did not like that she had to do 8 pages of work in each book a day. Yes, that means 5 books, 8 pages a day equals 40 pages a day. Too much? No. She raised a big stink about it, but there are days she will do six or 10 pages in each or a particular book depending on the difficulty. LOL Here she was crying when in most of the books, all there was left to do was 2 more pages for the day + she wrote a book report, accomplished all her housework and still had time to go to her friends house to play. Can you see momma rolling her eyes? She is probably the best student of all of them when it comes to working dilligently. She has 8 more books to complete. That means she could be done in 2 weeks and she has 3 weeks to finish. Her siblings have 9 books, except big bro, he has 6 more to go, but he has higer math and that takes him a bit longer. All in all it will be ok, it will push them (hey, as adults they we all have deadlines right?) and they will be rewarded with Christmas off from the 13th to January 3rd.

I say they have time off, but in reality I have projects for each of them to do. I asked each one to decide on something inexspensive but new and challenging to do. My oldest wants to build a scale model of a city. (Like Gotham in Batman) So, that means research, drafting, math, design, function, 3 dimension design and sculpting. My oldest daughter hasn't decided yet. My youngest daughter wants to learn to sew. She already has fabric and pattern ready. My youngest son still is deciding what he wants to do. It will Keep me busy but that's ok. I have my own projects to work on as well.

My wool that I dyed is being so slow to dry. Everytime I try and mess with it, it has damp spots. I am thinking I should put it down by the wood burning stove to dry it. LOL In fact, that might not be such a crazy idea after all. Hmmmm...I will ahve to work on that.

I ahve a whole mess of stuff to do before we leave for Cub Scouts tonight so I need to post and go. Hope ya'll have had a wonderful day and see ya soon.
katcha