Monday Morning Musings - Sideways

So, my dear, sweet, wonderful, hardworking husband was out of town all last week. I missed him somethin' fierce. I am so glad he is back now. He missed out on all the fun we had around here. I have posted some pictures of some of the fun. However, the pictures are posted in a sideways manner. You see, my dear sweet Addison broke my camera and Steve took his (that I have been using since mine was destroyed) out of town with him. Therefore, I had to take pics with my phone. And who knew that there was no way to rotate them once you took them. I can't even rotate them on my computer. So, sorry.

Last week, Zac was in a play called Dig It. Here is a picture of him with some of his friends.

Zac and Emily both came home last Monday, insisting to me that their Science Fair projects were due on Friday. I looked on my calendar and assured them that no, they were actually due on Monday. After 10 minutes of arguing with them, I gave up. Fine. They are due Friday, you can work your little behineys off and get them done by Friday (we hadn't even started). So we worked very hard all week to get them done. Then Thursday came around. I picked the kids up from school and the first thing Zac and Emily said to me was this, "Oh, by the way, our Science Fair Projects aren't due tomorrow, they are due Monday. So we don't have to finish them tonight". Really now? Well, too bad! You are finishing them TONIGHT. Even if it kills us all! So we stayed up until midnight finishing them. Then they didn't want to take them to school the next morning. Well, TO BAD AGAIN! Get them out of my house and out of my sight!

Here is Zac's project.

He did an experiment to see if gender makes a difference in memory. He gave his class a list of items to try and memorize and then recall for his short term memory test. Then he gave them a paper with these pennies on it to test their long term memory. Can you tell which penny is the correct penny? Yeah, me neither. I had to cheat.

This is Emily's project. She did an experiment to see which brand of gum lasts the longest. We tested 9 different brands of spearmint gum. A special thank you goes out to our across the street neighbors and my mom and sister who joined in on the fun. We were all ready to puke spearmint by weeks end. In fact, I saw a pack of spearmint gum at the store today and went into convulsions.

Here is some helpful information for next time when you just can't decide which pack of gum to buy:

Stride lasted the longest.

Dentyne lasted the shortest.

Orbit Mist was a very comfortable gum to chew for me personally, but the flavor didn't last long.

Eclipse is downright nas-TAY!

Everything else fell somewhere in the middle.