Fall Projects

So, if it's September and the Smith family has a freshman, you know it's insect time.  Here is my,err, I mean Aaron's bug project.  Getting that boy going on a project like this is absolutely painful.  I got everything ready for him and left for biology lab telling him he'd better have made significant progress by the time I got home.  Of course, when I arrived home I discovered that instead of working on the project, he had gone to the skate park.  Should I have just eaten him at birth? I mean, seriously!!! So as you can imagine, we were both up until midnight getting this bad boy finished.  Never again, people.  The girls will do their own darned bug projects.  I have written it in stone - like really - with a sharpie!

This is the back of the poster. Aaron did do this part completely on his own and I will admit he did a fabulous job on it.  Now if only he'd left himself time to do any of the rest of the poster.

In the meantime, Aaron left the sliding glass door cracked open a couple of nights ago and this delightful vinageroon crawled into the house.  He is just lucky he waited until the above project was completed or he would have been euthanized and turned in for extra credit.  Gross!

Luckily there are a few Smiths who actually enjoy doing their own projects.  Here is Bethany with her completed Maniac Magee diorama.  She worked all weekend on it.  I think she will definitely get an "A".

And in Bethy's spare time, she helped me assemble this lovely new dresser for her bedroom.  We did it all by ourselves because we are modern day Rosie Riveters.  The only problem is that I keep forgetting to get her burly brothers to help me take it upstairs and now I've gotten so used to its presence in the family room that I may not remember to ask them for another month or two.

And here is what I have been up to. I can't currently seem to interest any of my darling children in the academic pursuit of excellence.  Therefore, I have officially given up and from here on out will be bragging about myself. :)  Below are my first two tests (one for biology and one for psychology).  School is so much fun.  I absolutely love the feeling you get  when you know you have studied enough to totally get a better test grade than anyone else in your entire class.  I know, I know.  That probably shouldn't be my main motivating factor.  But let's be frank.  We all know that I have just the teeniest bit of a competitive nature.  Is that so wrong?

And of course Amber and Miranda's main project for this time of year is decorating for Halloween.   Amber has already trick-or-treated several times to her own front door in the hopes of receiving a handful of chocolate chips.  Now there is a girl after my own heart.