Homework

Before Christmas break, Andrew's preschool teacher sent home a note saying that in the new year the kids would start having homework. This elicited a deep groan from me, as I do not associate "homework" and "my child" with "happy family times." She assured us parents that the kids usually enjoy homework and it's nothing strenuous. I was still skeptical.

Today Andrew was indeed very excited that he had homework. Not only that, but Evan was also excited that Andrew had homework. And they were both ecstatic that they could work on homework together! Evan sat without argument and did his spelling and math, and Andrew sat cheerfully practicing drawing straight lines.

And here the happy tale starts to go awry--not because of the boys, but because my Saga of the Camera continues. I actually did remember to take pictures of this moment, thinking that some cute pics of the boys earnestly working away would make a nice complement to this blog post. I found my camera. I took some very adorable pics. I tried to upload them to the computer. Nothing happened. After 40 minutes of trying, I'm just posting this entry with an old picture. At some point, I'm hoping that the blog writing and blog pictures will actually match.