What i'm Doing Now School is Out

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  Max is home for the summer.  It's an abbreviated summer, from May 24 to the end of July, but summer is always difficult.
   You see, if i leave Max to himself, he will veg in front of the TV watching PBS kids shows all day. 
  So i am not reading so much now, nor making much art of any description.
  Sometimes he will work with me on a project, but we do other things.

  That new mower thing, well, that's mostly MyGuy's job unfortunately.  i threw out my back, and he doesn't want me using it now.  Max has decided it's not for him, now the newness is off.  i have trouble getting past his refusals yeah, Parenting Imperfect.
  But this summer i can get him - so far - to walk in the yard a few times a day.  Actually we go out to check the mail.  It only comes once, but practice crossing the street, that's good, and walking is good.  "Walk" won't get him off the couch, but "go to the mailbox" will.
  We have poetry & geometry lessons.  We go to the laundramat when it's time to wash towels & sheets.
  We have card games.  Those are not just for fun, though we both enjoy them. 

  We play I Spy Match Game, and the Thomas the Tank Engine Go Fish.  Each match and set means a sentence about the cards.  "James is a proud red engine."
  The Care Giver Support Person, a different one, we're workng out a volunteer thing at Gleaners.  He's done that through school, and likes it.  i hope we can get this to happen.
Not that my life is Entirely About Max now. But at the moment, i'm either working with him, planning to work with him, or figuring out the knottier than expected end to my unsought year at PTA president.
  It's only been a week.  
 

Photos: Sphere and Pyramid demonstrated that Circles and Triangles are Flat, and become Spheres and Pyramids when 3D.
               Another shot of Max and the new mower.
               Our Thomas card game is actually carefully put together parts of 2 games.  That way we have more characters.  The table was inherited from MyGuy's grandfather, a commercial artist, who used it for his home art projects.