So last night I’m going over a study sheet with my daughter and, while I am used to her misspelling words, I gotta tell you, this one was particularly disturbing.

“disside”

I gaped, people.  Literally.  “Disside???”

Daughter pauses.  “What?”

“How do you spell decide?”

“D-e-c-i-d-e.” 

My  mouth hasn’t managed to close yet.  “I don’t understand.  Why didn’t you spell it right on the study guide?”

She shrugs, unconcerned.  “Dunno.”

She might not know, but I do.  Sheer laziness.  Argh!!!

On a happier note, my son has been keeping his room clean, picking up his dirty clothes, promptly attending to his homework and working for my brother to earn money for a mission trip.

My question is this–why can’t they be good at the same time???

We’re talking about Halloween traditions over at the Soapbox Queens today.  Click on over and tell us your favorite Halloween candy and the best prank you ever pulled. 

I’m not ready for Monday. 

Over the weekend, my daughter and I planted our fall flowers.  I’ve watched a couple of movies–THE GAMEPLAN and BECOMING JANE.  (Took the kids to the former–very funny and I wasn’t sure what to expect–and myself to the latter.  Loved it.  Very good movie and it was much preferrable to the football mania going on at home. 

Me and the dh went shopping for some new clothes for him.  His twenty year high school reunion is coming up this weekend and he wanted some new duds.  Since he’s gained around sixty pounds in the last few years and FINALLY outweighs me–woot!–I got to say, “Pleats aren’t your friend anymore” while he was trying on pants and got an evil little thrill.  Yes, I know I’m bad.  (And he needed to gain the weight.  When we married he wore 28/34’s–and could wear a pair of SWEATS underneath.  Life is not fair, ya’ll.  Seriously.  Yes, he finally outweighs me, but I still feel like Jack Spratt and his wife.)

In addition to all this fun, I finished Susan Carroll’s THE HUNTRESS and loved it.  Right now I’m reading THE RAVEN PRINCE by Elizabeth Hoyt and it’s wonderful.  Very different, which is heartily refreshing.

Today, I start on the revisions for the book I just turned in and the daughter is hacking in the living room as I type this, so I’ll be tending to a sick child as well.  But after all of the relaxing activity over the weekend, I am undaunted.