I didn't realize until late this evening that this is National TV Turn Off Week. Middle Girl had mentioned it when she came home from school one day last week, but we'd never really discussed it further. Ironically, the television has been on more this week than in the last three weeks. Middle Boy's been sacked out on the couch with a stomach bug, so it's been mostly for his benefit, but I think we've all watched a good deal more than usual.

The thing is, though, that we're just not real big television watchers in the first place. Even when they turn it on of their own accord, the kids hardly ever sit in front of the tv for the duration of an entire show. There are a couple of things they like to watch, but Middle Boy is far and away the only child meticulous enough to pay attention to the times and dates that his show airs. I think the girls must get it from me, because as much as I've enjoyed certain shows, I've always been notoriously bad at remembering when something is on and turning on the television.

(At this point, I make a mental note to myself that Food, Inc. is on PBS tomorrow night at nine and I've been wanting to see it. I'll probably end up missing it because I have a Girl Scout meeting that will run until 8:30 and then I'll get home and there will be things to do and it just won't cross my mind again until I'm getting into bed for the night.)

In other news, my digital camera has died. I was taking pictures of the kids on an Easter egg hunt at my parents' and set the camera down outside. I forgot it was there until, several rainstorms later, I went searching for it in my bag and came up empty. It wasn't a great camera by any means, but I'm mourning the pictures of Youngest waddling through the woods in search of plastic eggs that died with it.

Eldest is still working through a long, slow math lesson block. I think we may do another mini lesson block on math over the summer so we can finish covering all the grade 4 material. She's been reading almost non-stop lately, and as she didn't start reading on her own until just over a year ago, I'm loathe to call her away from it for lessons. Her homeschool Waldorf class performed their play last week - Jacob and Esau. Since the program starts a new "grades class" every two years, the class she's in is doing a third grade curriculum this year. It works out well because we don't get overlap with things she does at home. If anything, she hears stories we heard over a year ago and is glad for the retelling.

Middle Boy has started a new main lesson block on "saints". We're finishing Gandhi and will be moving on to Mother Theresa. I think he's really enjoying it. His class's play was The Pied Piper of Hamelin. Very sweet.

I think I'm too tired to form much more coherent thought, so I'll leave off here for tonight.