top o the morning!

Three reasons to be happy today:

• The city has reinstated full plastic recycling and lawn garbage pickup, after one of the biggest kerfuffles ever seen in Ottawa municipal politics history.
  
• Justin finished his "paper games" book, and ended it by writing his own name, needing only to be prompted at the end (me: "J-U-S-T-...?" him: "I!"::writes it down). For a boy who two months ago was having difficulty drawing a line from one dot to another, this is incredible.
  
• Going to a picnic today.
  

hee :)

Homeschoolers have one idea absolutely dead-on: when children are truly motivated, they can learn with ferocious tenacity.

To wit: Daniel, who has just discovered D&D, has been happily struggling to read, all by himself, the Player's Handbook, for about forty minutes. We're not talking "Franklin saw the dog" here - we're talking Quarterstaff of True Striking: This sturdy quarterstaff of polished oak with three grooves at each end functions as a +1 quarterstaff. Additionally a charge can be expended per strike to invoke a true strike spell, as per the spell description.
Caster Level: 5th; Prerequisites: Craft Staff, Craft Magic Arms and Armour, true strike.

He's so cute :)