Math

Me - Math, not wow! I don't like math. I hate the person who created math. Math is so hard. If there had to be math, I wish I didn't have to learn it. I am not good at telling time. I don't understand money. In third grade, my teacher had to help me on a telling time test. I do like multiplication. I am good at my times tables up to 12. When I was younger, I used to practice math a lot to try to get better at it, but I don't any more. My Grandma, and my brother and sister are really good at math. I am much better at reading, and I like it much better. My Mom and Dad are better at reading too, but they don't hate math as much as me. No one hates math as much as me.

Mom - Math has never been my favorite subject. I was always much better at reading probably because I always liked to read. Not too long ago, I was in touch with my third grade teacher. She said when I was in third grade, I was really good at math. I don't remember that at all. By the time, I got to high school I wasn't. Melia is like me. She does not like math either. She thinks she is really bad at it. While she is definitely better at reading like I am, her teacher's have told me that she is not as bad at math as she thinks she is. I think she just lacks confidence in her math abilities because she likes reading better so it comes easier to her. She has to work at math more. Maybe, I was the same way. My husband also prefers reading to math. Aurella, however, is good at math. When she was about two or three she said to me "I had two and then I got three more so now I have five." She didn't even have to count it up or anything she just knew. When I went to help out in her classroom in kindergarten one day, they were doing something where they had to write numbers as high as they could could count, most of the kids wrote 10 or 20 or so. Aurella wrote up to 42, and she had only stopped there because she ran out of room on the paper. My stepson is also really good at math. When he comes he helps Melia with her math homework. My Mother is also very good at math. She was a math major in college. My Mother looks at things in a very serious way. She always expects things to be logical. Aurella can be that way too. For instance, she always takes song lyric very seriously and is always asking why a person would say or do this or that. Maybe, it is this way of looking at the world in a logical way that makes them so good at math.

And that's our view. Do you prefer math or reading?

Tune in tomorrow for Tips for Tuesday.

Funny Friday - Money, Money Money

Me -

When I was little, my Grandma was counting money, I put out my hand and said "Money!" She gave me a penny. I lost it. I put out my hand and said "More money!"

Mom -

When my stepson was little, he said "I get my money the hard way! Bubby gives it to me!"


We welcome your to share your funny stories with us. Tune in Monday for another Talking topic.

The End of Summer

Me -The end of summer, wow! I am not happy about the end of summer. This was the coolest summer ever. We have taken tons of day trips and a couple overnight trips. We went on lots of rides at Amusement Parks, Carnivals, the County Fair and the Boardwalk. We went to a couple zoos. We went to the Safari at Great Adventure. We went to baseball games.We went to a couple museums. We went to a Broadway show. We went to an Aquarium. We went to the beach.We went to a few parks. We went to a few parties, and we had a few barbeques. I slept over my best friend's  house a couple times, and she slept at my house a few times. I am not looking forward to school starting. My best friend is a year older than me and goes to a different school. She said that the grade I am going into is very hard and has a lot of work. I am not looking forward to getting up early. I like to sleep until around 1:00, and when we are not going any place fun I like to hang out in my pajamas all day. Of course, my parents don't let me sleep late every single day or have a pajama day every single day anyway. I wish the summer would never end like on Phineas and Ferb.

Mom - I can't believe another summer has come to an end. If there had been 9 more days (less than two weeks) more of summer vacation, there would have been three whole months. Even so, it still seemed to pass in the blink of an eye. We had a really terrific summer, our summer of fun as my girls dubbed it. We got to do a lot of things and go a lot of places many of which we had been talking about for years but never gotten around to. We worked on the blog a lot and we wrote a bunch of stories on Aurella's blog. Still there were so many things, I wanted to get to that I never did. There were so many things I wanted to get to around the house in particular that I could never get to because we were just so busy all the time. It is alway like that anyway. I always think I am going to do everything in the summer. I always think I am going to get completely caught up, but I never do. Usually, all of June and July, I am relaxed because I think I am getting things done, and I still have a whole other month of the summer to go after July. However, as soon as August hits, I go into panic mode thinking the summer is almost over, and I hardly got anything done. This year was different. This year I never thought I was getting that much done not even in June or July. It definitely was a fun summer though. Maybe, now that Aurella is entering first grade and both girls will be in school full-time for the first time, I will actually get things done during the school year. At least, I hope so.

And that's our view. How was your summer?