April 29, 2025

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• This is the second day this week that Anderson has woken up without me going upstairs 17 times. Both days, I didn't even have to hollar from the kitchen trying to wake him up. Could my baby be growing up? He has probably just realized that the sooner he finishes his school, the sooner he can do whatever he would like.
• I did have to rush Whitman today to finish his work because I wanted to work with him at noon. Poor guy, he is just slow; however, he is doing more work than all the others did in the 6th grade because I now know the very bust curriculum-he even does two whole different maths, but don't tell him.
• I left early with Graham for him to take the silly accuplacer test-I guess the 5th or 6th time was actually the charm! Every time we talk about the score that he needs, but today he had a look on his face so I assumed he had passed. However, his look was of despair-he thought he needed 10 more points than he had gotten. He was super relieved when I told him the actual number that he needed-and he got that score plus 2 more points. 
• He was pretty happy, but I was even more happy. He actually could have asked for anything at all, and I would have bought it for him on the way home. We did stop at Walmart, so he found himself some cookies-but I would have spent 3 times as much in celebration. Now I don't have to go back to Pulaski Tech until January when Campbell starts taking the Accuplacer to get ready for her concurrent classes. 
• I took a walk when we came home, and then Robby and I ran to a few Krogers and Trader Joes. We were pretty much gone all afternoon, and it was after 6 when we came home. Now, Keaton was hungry, so she found out the super menu and went to town. Not only had she started on supper, she had finished supper when we walked in the door.
• It was a small supper since Graham had played basketball with people this afternoon and was out to eat, and Anderson was at work still. We all ate and chatted, but then everyone went their own ways. 
• Both boys are now home and will hopefully start studying for their test, and Campbell and Keaton are making themselves snacks for their Rookie watching tonight. Meanwhile, Whitman is still relieved that he found his phone-surprisingly, he isn't that attached to it, and only uses it when he leaves the house really. So he is often misplacing it or just laying it down somewhere-tonight he and the girls searched pretty hard before I finally found it in the bonus room.