Week in our Life, Day FOUR.

• Up at 6:00 to finish reading Keri's dissertation proposal, in preparation for 9:00 am committee phone conference. Put sweater on because it's chilly.
  
• Wake kids at 6:45 am. Baths and showers.


• Help kids get dressed.
  
• Put Hayden on the bus at 7:45. He hates missing the bus and doesn't want us to bring him.


• Stand at the busstop with umbrella....a cold rainy morning.


• Finished getting myself and Kennedy ready. Combed hair and tied bandana in it.


• Dropped Kennedy off at school. Snap photo of Barb (principal) greeting kid with her Duckie umbrella.


• Drive to campus. Watch the van go over the 10,000 mile mark.
  
• Meet Keri at my office.
  
• One-hour dissertation review meeting/conference call. Talk about research methodology, statistical analysis and her theoretical frame.


• 10:00 class--talk about identity development of the adolescent.


• 11:25 class--administer Stats/Research exam #1. Catch up on emails and Facebook.
• 12:45--grab apple and granola for lunch. I need a Diet Coke!


• 1:00--administer 2nd section Stats/Research exam. One of my student read a study saying that chewing gum improved exam results by 25%; he started handing out gum right before the exam!


• 2:30-4:00 Learning Center meetings; disability accommodation reviews.


• 4:00--Leave for home; grab tacos on the way home for dinner.


• 5:00--eat tacos with the kids; catch up on their day.


• 5:30--a bit of TV.


• 6:00--Planning to make cookie bars with the kids; out of butter so will have to wait until tomorrow afternoon.
  
• Hayden falls asleep on Ruby's dog bed. One tuckered little kindergarten boy (and dog).


• Kennedy playing Barbie's/watching Disney channel.


• Homework time for Kennedy; due on Fridays. Working on counting complex coin combinations and Venn diagrams. Kennedy: "I hate it when you ask questions about school. It disturbs me. (OK THEN.)


• Read a bit of the newspaper......Obama visits GR, new Bailout plan. Blah-blah-blah.
• Bedtime routine same as yesterday and every day before that.
• Read and start Beth Moore Bible study.