Time for bed--Not a creature was stirring

So today, I am hoping, is that last of our quarantine.  The bowel movements and GI distress seems to be waining.  This evening while I was knitting I couldn't help but think about the most recent conversation my husband and I have entered into.  The discussion of a third child.  We know it will be a third for the sake of a third.  My oldest thinks it's great, and wants a brother, and the baby still says no to the idea...Really, as a good friend pointed out, 3 girls doesn't mean what what 3 girls meant 2 decades ago.  At some point when the economy tanked, and as slow (and hopefully steady) as the recovery will be, my husband and I are no longer thinking about how to pay for 2 weddings, versus 3.  It will most likely be more a conversation about contributions.  We are trying to swing paying for college, but I am so disenchanted with public education that I am already investigating private schools.  And lemme tell ya' we aren't catholic, but I am not even concerned with that minor detail if it means we'll be able to afford multiple tuition bills. 
As a 'highly-qualified' teacher, I don't want to go back to public schools --whose numbers are increasing, services are decreasing, and parents are so overwhelmed at home, and underwhelmed with their childs' educational experience that my children bear the brunt of this debacle.  But this is where that train seems to be going...So we are planning ahead.  Currently my daughter is enrolled at a private preschool; next year she goes to their pre-k program.  But at that point, she is already in pre-k for more hours than NH kindergartners attending public school will be....Maybe if I teach at a private school, my kids can reduced tuition?  Hmmm, private schools generally don't hire special educators...Hmmmm.
  On a better note, while there was some TV watching today, the lack of it did not consume conversation for the day.  That is hard when everyone has been sick for the better part of a week, and that is all any of us had energy to do.  Here is the thing about TV, all it does, (and only when my kids haven't napped), is keep them seated on the couch.  If this country were a country of genius children and adolescence, then perhaps we could let TV take credit; but I realize as a parent that TV is really (and maybe only a little bit) expanding my childrens' vocabulary exposure.  Most adults use the same (was the number 4,000) words everyday; so they will hear different words.  But really if all it took were Umi-Zoomi to learn geoemetry, or Yo Gabba Gabba to make a child a musical prodigy, then most parents could pat ourselves on the proverbial back.  The DIY net work is proof positive of statement; how many people watch that channel and can then go renovate a house?
  Until next time....AIM4Peas