A distracting day

The devotion was about the dance called the Tango. It was born on the backstreets of Buenos Aires South America. (I love being able to tie in our lessons.) During WWI the German forces were banned from dancing the Tango because the dance was described as “an affront to common decency.” King David was fussed at by his wife, Michal, (imagine that!) when he danced with abandon before the Ark of the Lord. In Michal’s eyes, David was making a complete fool of himself. David had much to celebrate, because he was chosen over his father Saul to be the next King of Israel. To David it was worth acting like a fool to show his joy in the Lord.

The math lesson today was pretty easy too. It was all about subtracting fractions with unlike denominators. That’s easy enough. You just have to make the denominators the same. Then it taught us how to subtract whole numbers and fractions with unlike denominators too. JD scored a 100% on the quiz.  It was a slightly frustrating lesson for the teacher.  My student was self-distracting.  The TN Hyder's left to go job searching so the house was quiet, and yet JD still found a way to get distracted and the lesson took longer than it needed to.

I had JD read for thirty minutes while I prepared for errands.  He is still reading the short story called Tomas is Lost.

After a short school day we went out to run important errands. My main goal was to pick up medications for all three of us NC Hyder’s. Unfortunately, the clinic was closed for training. (Seriously?) So then JD and I went on our short field trip to the travel agency. I was looking for brochures for South America. We scored big. We got three full magazines of vacation packages for Mexico, Central and South America.  Then, we picked up some other brochures of other places we have already been in NC so we could look at the "exciting" ways they use to invite people to that location.  We'll start the brochure project next week.  JD was still finding ways to get on my last half nerve by embarrassing me with his manners (spitting out his drink) and acting in ways that called for me to "warn" him to rethink his decisions. But all in all it was a good school day.