This morning I was in making my coffee and I heard a squeal.  Not so much a squeal from being upset, nor one of sheer delight; more like a squeal from just amazement…….  After the hour long (every few minutes) of me prodding the boys to “start” something to do with school…. (Yes, even HS’ers hate Mondays)…. They finally signed on and got to work.

We had a very long and exciting weekend.  Usually we do something “school” worthy over the weekend or at least they read every night before bed.  This weekend was one of our two fall Boy Scout camp weekends and needless to say that Monday and school came way to fast for them.  They sure did “learn” a great deal over the weekend but did not read or do any formal schoolwork like normal so it was much harder to get them started this morning.

Back to the squeal…..   Today I learned that not only could you stretch the Great Wall from the East Coast to the West Coast but that people were removing bricks to build houses……..   There is now a picture of The Great Wall pinned in our office.  My youngest found the facts surrounding the Great Wall so very exciting and the squeal came in the manner of instant “Mom!! You know what??”….  Followed by a talking a million miles an hour.

My eldest was clapping madly by the end of his work today because he had gotten 100% on some part of LA Extensions.

For all the dragging that was done at the very beginning,  schoolwork actually was okay.  I enjoy when the boys start telling me something and have a hard time speaking as quickly as the thoughts are trying to come out.