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Monday Conversations and the End of a Honeymoon.

Melissa Beene Ford/ Annie+ Funny Stuff+ Katie

This morning, Annie was talking to Daddy as he got ready for work.

A few minutes passed, and Annie asked, ‘Daddy, did you get something new for your ear?’

He looked in the mirror, and there was a glob of shaving cream he had missed, near his ear.

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Just now, we heard a noisy garbage truck pass by. Annie asked, ‘Is that daddy coming home?’

I answered, ‘No, that was the garbage truck.’

Annie asked, ‘Does it have Barbie dolls inside it?’

A little explanation….. Their dad recently decided that our girls would not be allowed to play with Barbies anymore, so all of our Barbies went to a new home…. and they rode to their new home in the garbage truck.

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Homeschooling. Math. This was fun for the first two weeks but today? (Big sigh). I am helping KB with a math worksheet where she is supposed to add a given number to a blank to get the given answer.

She knows how to do this; we are adding digits 1-9 for Pete’s sake.

At the year-end tests last year in public school, she was the only kid in her class to make two 100s on the math test.

She can do this. Trust me.

She filled them in all wrong, adding the first number to the answer…. 3 + ____ = 10, and she wrote 13 in the blank.

I am now explaining to her, for the third time, how to do this.

We are counting little yellow math manipulatives over and over again so I can show her three plus this many little yellow blocks equals ten.

‘So how many is that?’

‘Thirteen?’ She answers.

Me: Do you see thirteen blocks there?

Her: ‘No?’

Me: ‘So how many blocks do you see…… three here….. plus these…… equal ten. So how many to you see here?‘

Her: ‘One?’

‘Two?’

‘Six?’

If she truly didn’t get it, it would be one thing.

But she’s doing this on purpose and I am at a loss as to how to handle it.

Serenity now.

I still have Caldwell Elementary’s phone number in my speed dial and don’t think I won’t drag her up there and re-enroll her today.

At least I can threaten.

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  1. Lianne says

    September 14, 2009 at 4:52 pm

    I think Mattel&#39;s newest Barbie is Garbage Collector Barbie. The truck is sold separately.<br /><br />Math is evil.

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  2. Connie says

    September 14, 2009 at 5:54 pm

    Love the Barbie&#39;s in the garbage truck story…so funny! <br /><br />I hate Barbies anyway. Every time the girls get them out it&#39;s merely them fighting over the prettiest one with the least ratty hair and then stopping me every 3.2 minutes to dress them or undress them or put their shoes on. I didn&#39;t like dressing them when I was 8 and now I&#39;m 31 so imagine how much I don&#39;t

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  3. Melissa from the Blue House says

    September 14, 2009 at 6:56 pm

    And those would be two of the reasons why our Barbies went to live somewhere else! 1) We have one BILLION toys in this house, and yet the girls want to fight over ONE DANG BARBIE! and 2) I have a problem with curvaceous blonde women laying around my house NAKED ALL THE TIME! I don&#39;t care how many Barbie clothes they have, they are ALWAYS NAKED!! <br />Ultimately though, it was the fighting

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  4. julia says

    September 14, 2009 at 8:22 pm

    I was wondering the other day…do they have Camouflage Barbie??? Now if they had Barbies that fight each other maybe they would be worth keeping (I joke!).<br /><br />I swore with #3 there would be NO BARBIES!!! We have 21.

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  5. callie says

    September 14, 2009 at 8:24 pm

    Melissa. I feel your math pain. Jackson seems to have forgotten all of the math facts he learned last year. Keep up the good work &amp; it will click with her.

    Reply
  6. Valerie says

    September 14, 2009 at 9:47 pm

    We were talking about how much we missed ya&#39;ll at the PTA meeting today! Always an option!!

    Reply
  7. Anonymous says

    September 14, 2009 at 10:28 pm

    Is that math Singapore 2, per chance? XP<br /><br />Yooper

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  8. Melissa from the Blue House says

    September 15, 2009 at 10:39 am

    Yooper….we&#39;re not even on Singapore 1 yet!! 🙁 After doing the placement test, I ordered the 1…. which we still haven&#39;t opened. We&#39;re just working on basic addition facts for right now and she&#39;s struggling enough with those. I hope to start Singapore 1 by next semester?

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  9. Melissa Huntley says

    September 15, 2009 at 8:14 pm

    I&#39;m sending the girls matching barbies with glued on denim jumpers just to make you all feel better.

    Reply
  10. Melissa from the Blue House says

    September 16, 2009 at 12:11 am

    Melissa H……I&#39;m so excited about your FABULOUS IDEA!!!! HOMESCHOOL BARBIE!!!!!!<br /><br />I bet that idea would make MILLIONS. <br /><br />Does she come with a totebag of curriculum???<br /><br />And a violin???<br /><br />Would you be able to buy the 15-passenger-Barbie van separately???

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  11. Anonymous says

    September 17, 2009 at 12:27 am

    And she comes with special accessories– a loaf of whole wheat bread, a milk goat, a switch, high heeled Birkenstocks, &amp; a nursing baby that velcros to her b**b. This would sell, I&#39;m telling you…<br />LKS

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  12. Anonymous says

    September 17, 2009 at 1:49 am

    And the beekeeper suit, head covering and the pink…..oh never mind.<br />melissa h

    Reply

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