July is NetGalley Month!

My readers know that I review books on this blog… I love books! I especially like ones that no one else has gotten to read yet Although, I like ones that millions have read as well!

July* has been declared NetGalley Month at Red House Books! How cool is that!

If you don’t know about NetGalley, check. it. out. Really…

I’ve reviewed a couple of books from them on this blog already. Grumble Hallelujah and My So-Called Life as a Proverbs 31 Wife. I am reading a few more at the moment. You can see the titles on my Goodreads widget on the right.

*Hey, it’s still July 30th in my part of the world so I’m not totally late

Fair! Goshen County Fair!

We have lived here for almost 3 years and have only gone to fair once…. Yes, just once. I remember going to the fair when I was younger but all I really recall about that is the few rides that I would bravely ride (oh, yes, I’m a weenie) and not feeling so well later. We didn’t have a look around at all the exhibits or the animals.

My mother in law used to take the kids to the Jackson County Fair in Oregon when they were young. They loved it. I never went- was usually working or something.

So this year I decided we would go –and we would ride the rides! I had originally thought of getting wristbands for the kids but realized they are *my* children. They wouldn’t ride more than 5 rides (what it would take for the wristband to be paid for).

I rode on two rides…that’s all I could handle. Here is the first ride I was on, with Lee (who is afraid of heights I might add!)

It is called the Fire Ball. I bet it is awesome looking at night. It was about 5:30 pm when we were there. See how lively the fair is here… *cricket chirps*

Here is the first ride the kids went on (and Fox decided last moment that no, he didn’t want to ride it- sorry, promise had been made, deal done, buddy!)

I don’t recall at this moment what it was called.

Finally, the kids and I all went on one called the Arctic Blast. We went on it on Thursday when we went to the fair and loved it! The kids rode it twice tonight. I could only ride once. That Fire Ball turned my insides around/upside down and I wasn’t feeling so peachy. But the Arctic Blast was fun so I went on it, too.

That photo is from when they went and I didn’t. I had to hold all of our stuff (water, Fox’s shaved ice, etc.). We had a lot of fun at the fair. I’m really glad I didn’t spend the money on wristbands though. I bought a water, Fox’s shaved ice and 37 tickets which all together cost me $40. Lee bought herself some water and she also played two rounds of uh, throwing darts at balloons (lol, what, that’s not what the name is??). She won this:

An angry bird plushie… hmmm. Well, it is what she wanted!

So that was our time at fair. I’m glad we went- I’m glad we didn’t stay longer- I’m glad I rode the huge ride- I’m glad I’m home on solid ground And now to make dinner!

What We Accomplished… Day #15 7/29/11

Well, well, well. It’s Friday at last! It’s been a great week I will do our Weekly Wrap-Up (linked with Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers) tomorrow after we ride until we get sick get done at fair, but for now I will put down what’s been done today. Let me just put in here real quick that I discovered TweetDeck. OOOOh, big mistake (or was it??). I’ve been trying to figure out how to get any and all of my social networks on there. Well, I only have two really (Facebook and Twitter and now LinkedIn) so it’s been somewhat easy. What has been the difficult part is trying to not click the notification bar every single time it alerts me that there is something new going on. Sheesh… I would never leave this chair if I did that!

Fox first because Lee is still working on her work. She got caught up in the world of… well, she was reading a book. Had to finish it, you know…
Bible: Reading (Numbers 9), verse (Matthew 6:31-34, read, write, recite)
Math: Life of Fred PreAlgebra 2 with Economics (Bridge), Khan Academy
History/Geography: Story of the World (chapter 29), Around the World in 180 Days (Antarctica, page 5- used internet for information/research)
Science: The Story Book of Science (chapter 6- The Wiley Dervish, notebooking)
Language Arts: 30 minutes reading (Great Inventors and Their Inventions)
Gov’t/Economics/Civics/Logic: -
Foreign Language: -
Penmanship: Pictures in Cursive
We missed Robert Frost today because the book accidentally was dropped in the return slot at the library today- will pick it up again Monday. We also didn’t get to The Age of Fable (I think we somehow forgot about it… maybe?). And no foreign language again today… I’ve no idea, honestly, why we haven’t done that subject. Definitely will do it Monday (and the rest of the week).

Lee: (uh, she’s having a difficult time getting it done….)
Bible: Reading (Numbers 20), verse (Romans 6:1-6, read, write, recite), Mere Christianity (pages 43-46)
Math: Life of Fred Beginning Algebra (lesson 41)
History/Geography: The Life of Christopher Columbus
Science: Biology (pages 27-29, vocabulary)
Language Arts: Jensen’s Grammar (Lesson 55)
Gov’t/Economics/Civics/Logic: -
Foreign Language: -

I really should add in Music for this week! Our dear friend that we are house-sitting for has a keyboard that the kids have been abusing using daily. They’ve gotten quite good> Most of the time I enjoy it…

And now I am going to wash dishes, vacuum and collect our items and boogie home! Have a great weekend all!

New Friend Friday

Well, lookie here! A new link-up! I haven’t done one for a while because well, ahem, I, uh… didn’t feel comfortable with some of the blogs that were on one of the last ones I linked up with. Left a sour taste for link-ups. Unfair to judge based on one, I know. I know.

So to redeem my snobbish behavior (although, in my defense, I don’t think it was snobbish- rather a way to guard my heart, mind, eyes, ears, etc.), I’ve decided to join this one. It is for FAMILY FRIENDLY blogs That I like!

I love to meet new people and this is a good way to do so

Head over to Molding Minds Homeschool for the Linky…and sign up Have some fun

What We Accomplished… Day #14 7/28/11

We went to the fair parade this morning and also to the fair for a short amount of time. I think we got home about 1:00 pm. School started right away (no computer or tv until it’s done). Was a good day

Lee:
Bible: Reading (John 13), verse (Romans 6:1-6, read, write, recite), Mark Commentary (written narration)
Math: Life of Fred Beginning Algebra (Lesson 40- graphing points)
History/Geography: The Life of Christopher Columbus, Western Civilization (worked on Hundred Years War report)
Science: Biology (pages 26, vocabulary, review)
Language Arts: Jensen’s Grammar (Lesson 54)
Gov’t/Economics/Civics/Logic: How to Read A Book (continuing Pt. 1, Ch. 1)
Foreign Language: cut out flashcards for Greek (lol, it’s something)

Fox:
Bible: Reading (Mark 6), verse (Matthew 6:31-34, read, write, recite)
Math: Khan Academy (absolute value [it’s easy and he likes it… therefore he sticks with it…moving on next time!])
History/Geography: What Everyone Should Know… (pages 111-112, written narration), Complete Book of Marvels
Science: Murche’s Science Reader VI (Lesson 6, vocabulary)
Language Arts: Hobbit (second 1/2 of chapter 3), 30 minutes reading (Great Inventors and Their Inventions)
Gov’t/Economics/Civics/Logic: Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? (chapter 2, narrated and discussed)
Foreign Language: -
Penmanship: Pictures in Cursive (he did this yesterday as well and I missed it when recording it [the painting is actually titled “Still Life of Grapes, Peaches, and Figs with a Landscape Beyond”])

I could do this tomorrow but I figured I would forget to so I am going to do a quick ‘how it’s going’ blurb here.

Lee is doing well, keeping her attitude positive and staying semi-focused. She decided on her own more than once that she would stay and work on school work instead of going with me somewhere. She still is taking a long time to finish up her day because, as she told me, there isn’t anything else to do. Although she does like the computer, even that doesn’t really motivate her to work faster. We finally started on Life of Fred again. It’s been since perhaps April since we have done it. It seems we hit a wall with some of the concepts. Today went very well. A few things that we/she didn’t recall; we will work on that. Every thing else is going great with her school work. This is almost the last day of week 3 and it has been going quite well.

With Fox, he is still going fast through his work. It seems that he still is in the mindset that getting it done is the goal. The goal is to learn not simply to put another check on the list. We need to work on spelling- terribly. I haven’t quite figured that out yet. I don’t want to use Spelling City (not that there is anything wrong with it) because I do not want him on the computer any more than needed (other than for his ‘fun’ time). I think the rest of his subjects are also going well. I’m really glad that he enjoys the Pictures in Cursive so much. I intend to have him start doing each line twice each day. He is having a little trouble with lowercase ‘p’ and holding the page correctly to have uniform letters (some slant to the left, some to the right, and some are straight up). But really, he is doing so well! And he is doing it without complaint. He enjoys the paintings

Tomorrow is the last night of house sitting and I wonder how that will affect school. It is nice and cool here. And there is that dratted tv. I dislike tv and will be glad to be away from it. Fox told me yesterday that he felt the reason both of the kids have been forgetting to say ‘thank you’ or ‘may  I’ is because of watching tv! It’s not surprising to me but interesting that he noticed. I am looking forward to being home…but not to the no a/c. I’ve gotten spoiled here!

Rearranging :D

So, you may have noticed… I changed my blog a bit. You like? No?

I may do some more to it… not entirely sure at the moment. I think the background is nice, not too bright and easy on the eyes. But what do you think??

Let me know, okay?

What We Accomplished… Day #13 7/27/11

We started the day heading to the fairgrounds to enter the kids’ 4H items into the Open Class. They missed the judging that was done on Monday (we were on paper route- and I had the dates/times wrong) so they had to enter them in Open Class on Wednesday. While we were there we got excited about the fair We were able to walk around the fair exhibits the first year we were here but missed it altogether last year. This year we have decided to plan our fair visit

So, yesterday was a little skewed as far as school but it got done. It seems that Lee just prefers to do her work all day long… says there isn’t anything else to do during the day lol.

Lee:
Bible: Reading (Numbers 19), verse (Romans 6:1-6, read, write, recite), Mere Christianity
Math: -
History/Geography: The Life of Christopher Columbus, Western Civilization (pages 294-296)
Science: Biology (pages 24-25, vocabulary, she also took quite extensive notes on atoms)
Language Arts: -
Gov’t/Economics/Civics/Logic: Whatever Happened to Justice? (chapter 18)
Foreign Language: -

Fox:
Bible: Reading (Numbers 8), verse (Matthew 6:31-34, read, write, recite), Saints & Heroes (pages 81-82, read aloud)
Math: -
History/Geography: Story of the World (chapter 28)
Science: Story Book of Science (chapter 5, notebook)
Language Arts: 30 minutes of reading (Great Inventors and Their Inventions)
Gov’t/Economics/Civics/Logic: -
Foreign Language: -

Which brings us to today- Thursday… we have some stuff planned. The fair parade is today at 10 and it is already after 9 so I better get going! Have a great day!!

Book Review: Song of Redemption (Chronicles of the Kings #2)

 

Song of Redemption
by Lynn Austin
ASIN: B002EZZ4QY
3717 KB
Publisher: Bethany House Publisher
Retail: $6.99

(Paperback, 352 pages, ISBN: 978-0764229909, Retail: $14.99)

The second in the Chronicles of the Kings series.

After reading the first book, I was so hoping to find the second for free. Yes, I’m like that. But alas, I did not find it for such a good deal. I did find it relatively inexpensive at Amazon however and decided it was worth the price.

This picks up right where the first book left off. For this book read 2 Kings 17:1-23, 18:1-12, 2 Chronicles 29-31 and 32:27-30. Also Deuteronomy 17:14-20 and 2 Samuel 5:6-8.

The characters in this are what you read in the Bible and a couple that are added. Still focusing on the reign of King Hezekiah, we now get more of a glimpse into the life of his wife, Hephzibah, who in the first book was a gift from King Ahaz to Hezekiah (therefore Hezekiah avoided her- he disliked his father that much!). Striving to follow the Law of Moses, Hezekiah discovers that he is to have only one wife and has to get rid of his concubines. What a great part of the story! At the end of the first book, I felt so sorry for Hephzibah. By the end of this book, I am wondering what will happen with her… Can’t wait to get the next book!

Austin paints a picture of Hezekiah’s younger brother, Gedaliah, that isn’t too flattering. Zechariah is in this book as well and he helps Hezekiah make sound decisions in his attempt to follow God’s Law. Isaiah is also in this book but his part is smaller (no less significant because of his prophesying). Not overshadowing Isaiah but also a prophet is Micah, who has a larger part in this book. And we are reintroduced again to Eliakim from the first book (Hilkiah’s son).

Another character that we are given a good description of (her life and struggles) is Jerusha. She is kidnapped by the Assyrians and horrible things happen to her. At one point, I thought for sure she would die; she wished for it. I won’t give too much away about her but she feels that she is never to be forgiven- but of course, God forgives! and she comes to realize that she is the one who couldn’t forgive herself, not God. There is a lot of suffering for her but her father and mother believed that Yahweh was strong enough and faithful to bring her back to them.

I think that is about all I can tell without giving things away too much! It is a great book. I’ve enjoyed the series thus far and look forward to more. Lynn Austin is a good writer as well. I’m going to be looking for more books by her that are outside of this series soon.

AO/HEO Kindle Ready Books

Ambleside Online and House of Education Online…two of my favorite curriculums.

Kindle- my absolute favorite ereader.

Put them together and you get Extraordinarily Awesome I put together a site that has AO/HEO Kindle ready books. It is called NLHome’s Compiling Spot (simply because at first it was for my own use and I didn’t intend on sharing! haha).

When I started with AO Yrs 5 and 7 (Lite), I went about searching for the books as cheap as I could possibly find them –at used book stores, on Amazon, alibris, paperbackswap, used curriculum groups. I did find a lot of good deals and now I have quite a few bookshelves with a good many of the books (some of which I will not part with ). I read on the computer a lot but don’t particularly care for how it fatigues my eyes. I got to the point of printing out a lot of the books we would be using. That got costly real quick. Our printer is a good one but a little on the older side and the cartridges are some of the most expensive.

But when I got a Kindle for my birthday last year….oh! what a treat!

Talk about savings! I have over 700 books on it right now (uh, no, not all of those are for school!). A good number are for school, however. A good portion of them were free or very inexpensive. I originally went looking on Amazon for the books…but I think that people are catching on that they can make a few pennies by republishing public domain books which caused some free books to be much more than free! I started a website that I originally intended to have for just the free books that are recommended for AO/HEO. You can find a lot of them on Project Gutenberg or Manybooks.net (which is a subsidiary of PG) but there are a few other places as well. Google Books used to be a great resource for PDF files (I am finding it difficult to navigate through the site now).

I’m working on updating it (uh, really I am) but right now it is good up until Yr 9.

What We Accomplished…Days # 11 & 12 7/25/11 & 7/26/11

This is a mix of two days because yesterday was just crammed full of … stuff. And I’m going to list them youngest first because oldest isn’t quite done yet with today’s work… she still has some to do so I may end up editing this post.

Fox:
Bible: Reading (Numbers 7, Mark 5), verse (Matthew 6:31-34, read, write, recite), Saints and Heroes (read aloud pages 74-80)
Math: Life of Fred PreAlgebra 2 with Economics (chapter 14), Khan Academy (absolute value)
History/Geography: Story of the World (chapter 27), What Everyone Should Know… (pages 101-105, written narration), Complete Book of Marvels
Science: The Sciences (Astronomy), Murche’s Science Reader VI (chapter 5, vocabulary)
Language Arts: 30 minutes of reading each day (Great Inventors and Their Inventions), Hobbit (first half of chapter 3)
Gov’t/Economics/Civics/Logic: Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? (read chapter 2)
Penmanship: Pictures in Cursive (Jakob Bogdany “Still Life of Grapes”) both days

Lee:
Bible: Reading (Numbers 18, John 12), verse (Romans 6:1-6, read, write, recite), Mere Christianity (pages 36-39), Mark Commentary (up to chapter 2)
Math: Khan Academy (multiplying decimals, greatest common divisor)
History/Geography: The Life of Christopher Columbus both days, Western Civilization (pages 293-294)
Science:  Biology (pages 18-23, vocabulary)
Language Arts: Jensen’s Grammar (Lesson 52 & 53), History of English Literature (chapter 32), 30 minutes reading (Gulliver’s Travels)
Gov’t/Economics/Civics/Logic: Plutarch’s Lives (the Graachi), Utopia
Foreign Language: Greek (reviewed to Lesson 13 in Level 4)

And now for why this didn’t get posted as I’d planned (…best laid plans…). Yesterday was paper route day for Lee but this time there was an extra item to deliver. It is the local area business guide. Not very large but it had to be delivered to the porch of every house (regardless if they get the paper or not), flat. The added weight messed with Lee’s hip. She fell two years ago and has had some issues with it since. The normal 1 1/2 hours turned into over 2. The night before I had been making dog food for the dogs we are watching and the rice would not cook. I was up until 2 am! Lee (ahem said she couldn’t sleep with the light on) stayed awake as well. We had to get up and get the papers at 8 am in order to have a quick paper route day…well lack of sleep kind of put a damper on that plan. We did get the papers about 8:30ish but she was so sluggish rolling them that it took a bit.

We had a house showing on Monday also so I had to make sure the house was clean (you can imagine my rushing around trying to get the kids to pick up their stuff- all of it!- more than a few times). I also had to rush to get the back yard mowed. It’s been a few weeks since it was last done so you may be able to understand why it took me a very long time. My hands still hurt today from holding down the bar. But anyway…it looks much better. Finally got back to the house we are sitting and had to clean up my mess from the night before so that I could make dinner. My day was shot by then. We had dinner late and school didn’t get done all the way and not even started until really late.

Today, Tuesday, the lady from the newspaper called (I thought that she was going to complain about papers not being delivered… Miss Negativity here…) and asked if either Fox or Lee would want to do an extra route today because the person that does it got sick yesterday while doing the route. It didn’t get finished. I thought for sure one of them would say “Pick me!” because it was for double pay. So I told the lady yes. Oops. At first Lee said, “I want to do it!” but then she remembered how bad she was hurting by the end of yesterday’s route and changed her mind. Fox really didn’t even take long to say, “no”. Hmmph. WELL, since I’d already said “yes”, I had to do the route. Not a big deal. That means $ for me The papers were supposed to have been already rolled (according to the person who had talked to the newspaper lady) but they were not. I rolled them as quickly as I could and got started at 12:45 or so. I got done at 3:30. I mean, really that wasn’t too long but I can’t get out of my chair now lol. Yes, you can laugh too. It is funny (and a little sad that walking so much makes me so sore- gives an indication of my physical state…anyway…moving on).

Tomorrow morning is the last day for the kids to enter their 4H exhibits and unfortunately at least one (possibly both) will end the year with an incomplete. It is really sad and I must say I am disappointed but I pushed and prodded as much as I felt I should have needed to. They simply were not very motivated and squandered their year.

Now I am off to eat my dinner and perhaps some fudge in a mug

Scrubs?

For a reason unbeknown to me, sometimes when I am in a store, I look at the nurse uniforms (you know, medical scrubs). Why? I do not know. It is a strange obsession, I think. Granted when I was young I did want to be a nurse but I don’t have the best bedside manner and I don’t like other peoples blood.

Perhaps it is because I see such cute designs nowadays on scrubs. They are no longer just plain green or gray. They have monkeys, they have dogs, cats, fish, and such bright colors. Someday (hopefully sooner than too much later) one of my sisters will be a nurse. I can imagine her scrubs will be BRIGHT! To match her personality  

Not all stores carry medical scrubs, of course. I live in a town that the majority of people are employed as either nurses/doctors, railroaders, or farmers. So there are scrubs at a local store Here though they are the generic colors. For those in the medical field, you most likely already know about buying scrubs online. Well, I checked out some scrub stores online and came across Blue Sky Scrubs. Looking at the hats that they sell, I wonder why others couldn’t buy them. Correct me if I am wrong, but aren’t the scrub hats to keep hair and other cooties from falling where they aren’t wanted? The same for food workers, eh? I recall working in a college cafeteria and having to wear a hair net. Ugh. But these hats would be great for that!

Perhaps they already make them for the food industry and I am just behind… hmmm. An interesting topic for a blog post, eh? But really, have a look at this:

This one is made for short hair. And here’s one for longer hair:

Some of the designs:

Okay, I am done now You are returned to your regularly scheduled blogging.

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Weekly Wrap-Up… 2nd Week of School

 

This week (well, really Sunday, which is the ‘start’ of next week) is Fox’s 12th birthday. Time seems to go so fast. Today, Friday (when I am writing up part of the wrap-up), I will be taking Fox and Lee (can’t leave her out!) out to lunch at one of their fav places to eat in our little town. Canton Dragon. Chinese food…yum.

Since this week at Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers is a Curriculum Link-Up, < follow that link to my posts about ours for the year (see my plan on planning, too). I previously linked up with Training Children Up for Christ, so have a look-see there also.

As for the rest of the week… smoothish sailing. I think towards Wednesday things start to drag but by Friday all is well

Monday was a good day. Because it is paper route day…Lee’s schedule is lighter. It seems to have been a particularly difficult day for her to stay with the here and now. She also found me some neat things on her route. Fox was quite motivated- house-sitting means cable tv… he was done super fast with his school work! But actually he’s been doing quite well all week with his school. I finished the book The Search for WondLa (care to see my Book Guardians ‘review’ of it?) this day…and that is possibly the extent of ‘my’ achievements for Monday

Tuesday was the day that we seemed to have too much fudge-in-a-mug (yes, there is such a thing [‘too much’]). Fox and I pulled weeds at home and I wished I had a lawn mower for the backyard…oh well.

Wednesday has been the best in terms of school. It all got done in a somewhat timely fashion and done well, too. Lee wrote up a ‘report’ on the Black Death. It is a PDF at Google Docs. She has made it in reporter form- a bit like a newsletter/newspaper. It is called The Homeschool Reporter. She will add to it as she goes along in her history studies.

Thursday (my, was that yesterday? feels more like days ago) was a day of missed subjects and speeding through school. Fox went to play at a friends (for such a good job/attitude the rest of the week) and Lee just relaxed, doing school work in between when she felt like it. Fox’s speeding through school though got him in a little bit of trouble.

Friday. It’s been so-so so far (haha, enough so’s?). Not amazing, not bad. I had to attend a webinar this morning for TOS Homeschool Crew. It was interesting to hear Brenda Emmett’s voice finally! LOL sounded different than I expected! We had our lunch at Canton Dragon- the buffet. I only had 1 1/2 plates (and really mostly it was the yummy rice) but I ate too much! We love Chinese food…well the kids and I do. DH tolerates it for us. Lee didn’t get done with school until about 7 pm… not as good as I had hoped, but her attitude remained good. Since it is Friday they are watching a movie- Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.

I had planned on posting this on Saturdays but I am thinking that tomorrow is going to be BIZ-EE! Have gifts to wrap, a cake to bake and decorate, house to clean and Bible reading to get caught up on. Linking up over at Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers- come on over!

 

*It seems the LiveWriter and the internet are not on speaking terms tonight so it will be tomorrow after all when it will be posted

What We Accomplished.. Day #10 7/22/11

Simply a retelling…

Lee:

Bible: Reading (Numbers 17), verse (Romans 6:1-4, read, write, recite), Mere Christianity (pages 30-35), Mark Commentary (making up missed work)
Math: Khan Academy (division, multiplication [decimals]), Life of Fred Beginning Algebra review (we will start at Lesson 40 Monday, 7/25/11)
History/Geography: The Life of Christopher Columbus (narration), Western Civilization (pages 291-292)
Language Arts: Jensen’s Grammar (Lesson 51), reading at least 30 minutes (Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels [because we watched the newest movie with Jack Black {pooh, imho}])
Science: Biology Test 1
Gov’t/Economics/Civics/Logic: Utopia, Ourselves (Pt 2, Ch 4 written narration)
Foreign Language: – none

Fox:

Bible: Reading (Numbers 6), verse (Matthew 6:31, 32, read, write, recite)
Math: Life of Fred PreAlgebra 2 with Economics (Chapter 13- compound interest [it’s been such a while since I worked on such things that I drew a blank for a short time when he needed help])
History/Geography: Story of the World (chapter 27- sigh I forgot his maps), Around the World in 180 Days (Antarctica, page 4)
Language Arts: Dictation (The Gift Outright- Robert Frost [will be his dictation next week as well]), The Age of Fable (finished about the Laestrygonians), reading (finished Fifty Famous Stories Retold)
Science: The Story Book of Science (chapter 4- but I forgot his notebooking pages! *gasp* something he looks forward to… will have to do better next week!)
Gov’t/Economics/Civics/Logic: none scheduled for Fridays
Foreign Language: none but I will get it together next week!!
Penmanship: Pictures in Cursive

Me… let’s not go there…

Can I Get A Decent Photo!?

Perhaps it is my subjects One didn’t want to be photographed, the other well, he didn’t either lol

“Mom, I’m doing my schoolwork!”

“No, I don’t want to right now.”

Come on, guys… work with me here…

“Really, Mom. Go away.”

I got at least one good one of each (you just wait, Lee, I will get you )