Mt. Pleasant Classical Academy

Thankfully I woke without any aches and pains this morning and shortly after a shower was walking Brutus outside. He looks at me often now, with a look of asking for direction, eager to comply to ‘SIT’, or ‘DOWN’. He is learning our hand signals and seems to quickly be picking these up too.

Once inside I venture over to the pantry to pull out breakfast supplies—crash, the doors fall off their slides. This is almost a daily occurrence now and I’ve learned to just breath, soon I’ll have a new kitchen. Breakfast completed MK flew through handwriting, grammar, spelling, and moved over to the sofa to read through ‘One Small Square, Backyard.’ SK started with Algebra 2 and moved onto reading Euripides Ten Plays in Great Books.

CRASH

I opened the laundry room door to find the ceiling light globe on the floor leaving 2 holes in the tile floor. WHY? It seems like something is always falling apart in this house, always something else breaking and creating another item on DH’s ‘Honey-DO-List’.

The rest of the day was rather uneventful. MK was pleased that he did 12 pages in his math book — he enjoys geometry and worked quickly through the geometry sections. He worked quickly today. In the evening SK, MK and I visited a nearby Dog Training School — it didn’t stay on our short list of possible dog schools. DH is convinced we do not need to take Brutus to any school but can do it ourselves. As I explained to a friend—

I’ll use this analogy as to why I like obedience training; you want to ballroom dance, and you want to do it really well, so you need a partner who also knows ballroom dancing really well, and it helps tremendously when you are learning to ballroom dance together that you have someone on the sidelines who can watch how you and your partner are working together so helpful suggestions are made so that you and your partner ballroom dance great together, and move as one unit.

Now some folks would say, oh hell, just go out on the dance floor and enjoy yourself, it’s easy just follow your partner and move in a box…….. obedience training helps to have a healthy pack and done right is really great fun for the owner and dog….and there’s competitions, and agility trials,……