Hindy Dindy NOTEBOOK~

If there is one thing that Blue's Clues instilled in my children it's that everyone should have a Handy Dandy Notebook or, as commonly referred to my Odin, a Hindy Dindy NOTEBOOK (with strange emphasis on the Notebook part). Everyone was given a spiral bound notebook to write down their Journal Entry's for the Summer, including the younger two. As it goes

Jaxom has written 1 elaborate story...it spans over 1 page of single spaced text where the letters take up two lines for the wide ruled paper.

Brenna has drawn 12 pages, has yet to write a word other than her name. She writes in the finest invisible ink that money can't buy.

Gunnar has mastered the letter "A", that's it. There is 50 pages of the letter "A." I still find it a bit sad that his 4 year old handwriting has far surpassed his 9 year old brother's.

Odin has the best scrawlings of a two year old that I have ever seen. His loopty loops, and zig zags...well he has the best detailed pages in his Handy Dandy Notebook,

In an effort to avoid having to do their summer work, they have taken to forgetting, getting distracted, having a sibling hide a notebook or two or four (however it best suits). Today was one of those days when everyone's disappeared, Jaxom got distracted after forgetting, Brenna had all of her words erased with a single grazing swipe of Gunnar's eraser, Gunnar's was consumed by hydrogen peroxide, and Odin drew on his face instead of the paper.

Am I ever going to get this right? At least my Handy Dandy Notebook is online...the others may take my sanity, but they can't take my internet (unless the power goes out, or we exceed our usage).