School started fine yesterday, and no one died. The boys were sure starting school again was going to kill them. #2 was tired by 10:30; he hasn't had to focus as much with school out. #1 was happy that there is no English or Spelling this year. He willingly did all of the work once he realized there was no English looming ahead. It is all a trick, you see. We are learning several other languages this year, but in doing so you learn about your own language. We started Latin yesterday and there was a lot of talk about singular and plural, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd person. We wrote a thank you note to an aunt who sent a book to them earlier, and that involved some work on capitalization and punctuation. He just didn't realize what he was doing without a workbook to guide him! ----------- We had a 4th of July cookout and kickball game at our house before we left for vacation. I think we had 28 people here. It was good to sit and visit with people and catch up on their lives. We just don't do that enough. Beforehand, though, we had to get everything ready for the party and then also to be gone for 10 days. So the boys and their dad were raking grass up in the back yard, when #2 put something in his pocket. "What did you just put in your pocket?" asked his father. "A cricket," he slowly answered. "You can't put a cricket in your pocket," was his daddy's logical remark. "He already has 6 in there," replied #1. "Well it's ok," offered #2, "I put some grass in my pocket too." When hubby told me that I burst out laughing. That explains the laundry a couple of days before that that had a bug fall out of it. You just never know what will happen around here.