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Quotable kids

Today Rion was really on a roll. I kept thinking, "I need to write that down." It's usually Torii who comes up with the stuff I need to write down. Like last week when Torii informed me that when I spank him, I'm hitting God because God is inside him. I didn't know what to say to that. Fred said I should have told him I was really beating the devil out of him. I wish I would have thought of that. So usually I'm telling people what Torii just said, but today Rion had all kinds of things to say. And for once he wasn't talking about video/computer games! After church today Rion said, "When I was waving the palm branch in church, I felt closer to God." This from the boy who never wants to go to Sunday School let alone church. He continued to talk about his spiritual moment in church for most of the ride home. What a sweet boy. He also wanted to save his palm branch. I told him there was no saving it, it was going to die. "Then it will go to the palm tree in the sky," he said. He still wanted a palm tree so he asked if there were any seeds that we could plant. I explained to him it was too cold here for palm trees. "Have you seen many palm trees around here," I asked. He thought a moment, "Ummm. No. Not really." Then later in the day, after I told Rion he couldn't have any more Root Beer, he comes running up to me and said, "You have no idea what I've just been through." Turns out he tried drinking Root Beer from the 2 liter and it came out a little fast, spilling all over and then coming back out his nose. He cleaned it up and I forgave him because listening to him explain all of it was pretty funny.

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Summer school

The schools here have a summer program called Camp Edventure. In the past I have always signed the boys up for it. This year I decided not to. The thing is, they need a break from school. That's the whole point of summer vacation. And there were so many things we wanted to do last summer that we couldn't because they were already committed to Camp Edventure. We've gotten a couple of notices from the school reminding us to sign them up before the deadline. These reminders also make sure to mention that the program is beneficial because continued learning through the summer has shown to improve fall test scores. First of all, my kids are eight and six. Unless Harvard will be looking at these scores, I'm not concerned. Second of all, my kids really need a break. I don't want my kids hating school by the time they get to middle school because they have never had a break from it. Third, my kids learn throughout the summer without school. When Torii's teacher was amazed at his fall math scores, I didn't attribute that to Camp Edventure. Torii's math scores went up from endless games of Monopoly and math workbooks he did during car trips. I think my boys will be just fine without Camp Edventure. Not that it's not a bad program. It's nice for the boys to see some of their friends everyday and they do have fun. They just need a true summer vacation without any school. Recently, Torii brought home one of the sign up reminders and he asked if I was going to sign it. I thought Torii wanted to go to Camp Edventure so I gently told him that I wasn't going to sign them up this summer. "Good," he said, "I didn't want to go this summer." Phew. I was relieved until he added, "I need more time to play video games."

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