First Day of School

Totally amazing that the first day of school becomes the first day of illness at my house! Amberlin started the day vomitting and then Christopher came home after school vomiting. What the heck is with that? Why must the bugs start this early in the year. Give me at least a few weeks before some dreaded disease makes it's way around my family. The kids tend to not want to do anything but lay around and whine. Then they think they are well so they gulp like four glasses of water and within 2 minutes here it comes again!! Glad they attempt to make it to the bathroom and not like last time when they just barfed all over the carpet and left it there until we got up the next morning and discovered the smell and the mess. That was the grossiest thing I ever saw! Very glad my kids are old enough to clean it all up themselves cause if I had to do it, I would have been sick too!! They whine and complain, but they do it. Luckily we have a carpet cleaner and I was able to steam clean the carpet when they were done. Other then that, the first day seemed about as successful as last year. Of course no homework yet so all the kids are loving school. Well ReAnna already has homework, but that is to be expected with online school. She is mainly concentrating on Government, English and PE this week until her teacher can put the rest of the classes she needs on there, including her failed classes from somphmore year. Rebecca will be helping her this year and not my sister. Rachel apparently insulted ReAnna's last two teachers, so they do not want to work with her again. SO she is off limits. Her teacher this year has been warned about my sister so she is prepared. Speaking of Rachel, she is starting to really drive me nuts!! She stays in the room she shares with Kaitlyn all day and does nothing but homework and watches tv. She claims to have no money, but she has her books and she keeps getting new clothes and shoes. She borrows her friend's car so she can get to work. She use to help us with Riley, do the laundry and join us for dinner, now she does nothing. Richard said it is like having a roommate that won't pay rent. She shows off for her friends when Riley is around but other than that we get nothing out of her. When she does come down to fill her cup with water, she talks our ear off. School for Richard and I is going well. I am keeping us up to date on our homework, but it is hard. Rebecca is having troubles. She has four classes and unfortunately wrote out these wonderful notes, but only for one book. So when she took a test for another class, mind you these are open book tests, she got 40 out of 250. I am trying to maintain my 3.42 average and keep Richard's up there also. So everyone has homework in my house except Riley, but she will start potty training as soon as I go on maternity leave!! That will be her homework! Plus teaching her stuff and new words. She does have a pretty big vocabulary lately. Her latest is I do!, Mom want daddy, Bye, Nigh Nigh, I stuck, Chicken, Kitty, Doggy, Bell Bell, Anna, Becca and she almost says brother and she sings now. She understands Mommy and Daddy go bye bye and she gets to wave bye bye to us, no crying! She loves to grab things she is not allowed to have and run like a loon away from us. Last night she was standing on the dining room chair and was typing on the computer!! It was so cute!