The Simple Life?

Had an amazing long weekend away with The Man to celebrate our 24th anniversary. We rode out the non Tropical Storm, Gabrielle. In fact, I slept through it Sunday afternoon and The Man watched football to his heart's content. It was heavenly!The morning we left, the sunrise was incredible.TS Gabbie didn't stop us from enjoying [...]

I am not smarter than a 5th grader

I know because I live with one. Yesterday our 5th grader came home with spelling and a blank math test because he tanked the first go around. Fractions. Fractions and multiplication came easy to me. He (our 5th grader) actually GETS fractions, but the problem occurs somewhere between 'showing his work' and trying to pull [...]