March Madness

I'm not sure why college basketball gets a whole month of madness devoted to it. I never see anyone going mad over my interests. You never see Crop 'til you Drop at the insane asylum. But anyway, the boys are going crazy for basketball and Jeff is encouraging it!!! As if there's not enough sports talk around here, he printed brackets for all of us and we made our picks. We're earning points for picks that win, 1pt for the 1st round, 2 pts for second round, etc. The person with the most points earns a $20 gift card from Wal-Mart. It's the only prize we could think of that would appeal to everyone in the family. LOL And guess who's winning with a total of 15 correct picks so far in the first round???? You know I wouldn't be asking if it wasn't ME!! All these little basketball fanatics are being beaten by the mommy!! BwaaaaHaaaaHaaaa I can just picture my new electric knife or maybe some sandals. Don't ya just love basketball??

As for Adam and Ryan, they're grounded for the week b/c of disobedience. That means no basketball games on tv. So today Adam drug out his radio. It was actually quite funny. He's only used it to play cds and had no clue how to tune a radio!! I'm not sure if that's funny or sad! But at least he figured it out quite quickly and found a game. Now he's waiting for the announcers to actually say a team name so he'll know what he's hearing.

We've finished up a couple books this week. We finished Turn Homeward Hannalee earlier this week and started Shades of Gray. I stayed up late one night and read all of Shades of Gray in one sitting. It was very very good. Turn Homeward Hannalee was good too! I will recommend them both for a study of The Civil War. Today we finished our read aloud, Across Five Aprils. I managed to read it without crying but I was really watering up a lot at the end. We'll start a new read aloud next week.

Evan has been laying around all morning complaining of a tummy ache. He threw up a little and actually fell asleep in the family room floor so I know he was really sick. But when he saw Ryan eating candy after lunch, he suddenly felt much better! He was sure he could keep some candy down! I told him he had to eat lunch first and he agreed. But now I'm afraid to feed him for fear I'll be cleaning it off the carpet later!