It’s been one of those days. Tomorrow will be another. And per Mrs. Murphy’s Law, Himself is out of town yet again. Both Thing Two and Petunia have math homework due Monday and not much time tomorrow to do it, so I had them working on it after dinner tonight. Thing Two’s was done but needed to be checked over, while at the same time Petunia (who had a sleepover last night, which I suspect from her behavior afterward involved very little actual sleep) was completely melting down over her inability to understand hers.
Given that I have not yet managed to clone myself, the next best option was to grab Thing One off the sofa in the family room and send him to the kitchen table with Thing Two’s homework. He’s three years ahead of Thing Two in school...figured he could handle checking sixth grade high math. He caught the few errors and explained how to correct them, which left me free to calm down the crying fifth grader, make sense of her homework (why, why, WHY do they so often require diagrams for problem solving these days??) and then put her to bed.
Teenagers...not just for babysitting anymore. Gotta love it!!
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