Bring on the Janette Oke

I'm exhausted.  I've read the first three Twilight books in the last week and truly I need a break.  They are so good, but so oh-my-goodness-I-can't-put-this-down-no-matter-what-else-I-should-be-doing-including-acknowledging-that-I-have-a-family-just-one-more-page-or-chapter-or-100-pages-I-think-I-can-finish-if-I-just-don't-sleep...I had the fourth book but I went ahead and loaned it to Amy, I am forcing myself to take a break from the vampire world and focus on the real world around me.  There is a lot to do around here before we have family arriving on Saturday.  We have yet to get any good schooling done this week except our lessons in spider capture today.  So, tomorrow we will be hitting the books big time.  I have a new lapbook for Hannah to start on Africa and Joe and Grace start their unit on Night Creatures.  

I spent too much time today trying to help Joe understand what a fake birthday is.  You see, when my children have their birthday party on any day other than their real birthday they call this day their "fake birthday."  Well, Joe just wasn't getting it and when Joe isn't getting it nobody gets a break from the questions until he has a full understanding of whatever the topic is.  After explaining and explaining, he finally got it.  I think the misunderstanding stemmed from him thinking he might be having a fake birthday coming up and might get some more presents.  He was disappointed.  Right on the heels of the fake birthday discussion--Hannah had to start on her little issue.  She just cannot get the whole "Pizza Hut/Wing Street" thing.  Are they two restaurants or one?  Why is it called two things?  Why did they make the sign that way?  And on and on and on.  We've had this discussion multiple times and it never ceases to annoy me that she has such an issue with it.  Today it was brought up because we were driving behind a delivery car.  And, once we settled that, I nearly ran over a woman who was jaywalking and happened to mention that she was jaywalking.  Yes, you guessed it--another LONG discussion about what jaywalking is.  I wish I had more patience for these conversations where I am educating my children on the things they are most interested in.  But, I don't.  

Woohoo for Adam Lambert tonight.  He is my American Idol!  Love him!  I'm thinking Megan or Anoop are going home.  Megan has been my fave but not so much anymore.