It's been ages! It isn't as though there hasn't been plenty to write about - life has been full and colorful, as always. So I don't really have any good excuses. And now that we're on break from that which we call "school," I have no excuses. Today, for instance, I started to say, "Okay, maybe we should go..." and then I paused to consider the relative silence and the absolute harmony in the house. The older boys were (and still are) upstairs playing with their new Lego sets - together, and happily - and Chase and Scarlett were playing together. Why should we break this up to go anywhere? Errands can wait.
So here I am just sitting, and able to write. My foremost thought is that while this "break" affords me some time to do just that, our break isn't all that much different from life when school is "on." In fact, when I was putting one of the boys to bed last night, I mentioned something about no school today, and he said, "Really? Cool!", and I replied, "Yes. We didn't have any school last week, either. You didn't notice?" And no, he didn't. "No school" pretty much just means I won't ask anyone to write a paper or do some grammar copywork. In the meantime, they're still reading (reading, reading, reading), listening to books on CD, building with Legos, drawing inventions, playing card games and board games, doing puzzles, going to the library, exploring nature, baking and cooking with me...and rejoicing about how they don't have any "school." It's really quite amusing.
Now, in a couple more weeks, the lack of even the little bit of structure we call "school" will be evident, and I'll have to rein things back in a little. But for now, we just...enjoy life and happily anticipate Christmas.
And the release of Les Miserables, about which I am really, really excited!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkHHHUk8RCw
