This is Thursday

When we had dinner with Grandma L over the weekend, she gave each of the kids some money.  Caeden's immediately started burning a hole in his pocket, but since we wouldn't take him to the store immediately he changed his mind after a few hours and decided he would put it in his savings account. He has asked me at least 2 times every day since Saturday if we could go to the bank, and we finally got there today.  He was quite the grown up little boy, and went right up to the teller window by himself.  When the teller asked how she could help him, he told her he wanted to deposit money into his savings account, his name and how to spell it, and how much he was depositing.  He answered all the questions he needed for his own transaction.  I was pretty proud of him for deciding to save his money this time.  He usually either spends it all immediately, or puts it in his piggy bank and then gives it all away when the school has a charity fundraiser.  It was nice to see him thinking it through this time.

After Caeden's guitar lesson, we hurried back home.  The girls didn't have violin lessons at the Music Shoppe this afternoon because their teacher, Ruthie is in Chicago for a special medical appointment for one of her children tomorrow.  But, she is such an awesome teacher who goes way above and beyond! She knew Sylvia had an audition coming up on Monday, so she did a short FaceTime lesson with Sylvia! See her on the iPad at the left of the picture?  Too cool, and so thoughtful of her to do that for Sylvia!

Already, Annah is having quite a bit of homework in 7th grade.  She's in an advanced math class that has daily homework.  Tonight she had 2 tests to study for.  I helped her study for Science and also Family and Consumer Sciences.  I had to take a picture of her science vocabulary word "lichens," and text it to my brother.  He and I still tease Dad about the family vacation when he tried to teach about lichens.  At the time, we were ungrateful snotty kids who thought we were too cool to learn about boring lichens and that wasn't what family vacation was supposed to be about.  Now, I think it's pretty cool that we still remember Dad teaching us about lichens.  He has shown my kids lichens in his forest, and they thought it was pretty cool and exciting.