School and Life With Joe

We've successfully finished two full days of school...only 178 or so to go...I think I can, I think I can, I think I can...I really can't complain, our days have gone very well. Just long! It takes a long time to school three kids and do it right. I am hoping to get more efficient with our days but I think this is just how it will be. Today was especially long because I schooled until about 3:30, then spent some time with Joe overseeing a shower and chores, then made dinner, and then went to the library and tutored for two hours, then to Office Depot to make copies, and then back home. Once I got home I realized that I hadn't exercised today or yesterday (I'm trying for every other day for now) and so I went on a half hour bike ride. Yes, I'm ready to collapse now!! I'll go to bed here shortly and get up and do it all again--minus the tutoring. I am happy to be back to normal life even if it is busy. I just feel settled for the first time in a long time and that feels good.
Remember how I mentioned in my last post that Joe is obsessed with the Little Miss and Mr. Men books? Well, today he was acting like various characters. Little Miss Chatterbox nearly made me crazy but Little Miss Magic was pretty funny. Mr. Nosy can take a hike but Little Miss Daredevil was interesting. Schooling Joe is one of the hardest things I've ever done and I am just so thankful that he is so darn smart. He definitely thinks out of the box though as was evidenced by one of his assignments today. He is doing Wordly Wise 2 and he had an exercise where there were groups of 4 words and he had to circle the word that was different. One of the groups had the following four words--pair, two, couple, and crowd. Of course, the word that didn't belong was crowd, everything else meant "two." Well, Joe insisted that the word that didn't belong was "two" because the others all had to do with groups of people. At that point he was definitely being Mr. Stubborn and Mr. Know it All. It's hard to teach him anything because he insists that he's right about everything. By God's grace he is learning though.