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Skylar, in anticipation of school starting up again in three weeks, has asked me over a dozen times if I will “homeschool” her.  The first few times I just laughed, but now I lead her on like I am really considering it.  When she asked me this morning, I told her that her first assignment was to write me a list of pros and cons regarding the idea.  She came back, and happily exclaimed she had no cons!  I told her there were cons, and to use her “creative thinking” to come up with one.  When she finally turned her paper in, there was one very serious con she said….”my mom might say no!”  However, her list of pros said “take care of the baby” three times, which I think is the underlying reason of the whole obsession.  When Trilby came home, Skylar tried to influence her, but Trilby is dead set on supporting the public school system and having Skilly attend. 

I also think she may have heard about the time when I was Britni Samuelian’s mentor on career day.  Everyone else was hooked up with the Laguna Beach Mayor, Lawyers, Doctors, CEO’s, and Brit was with “Lindsey the (unemployed at the time) Broadcast Journalist”!  All was good until Steve came home in the early afternoon to find me and Brit tucked comfortably in his bed with the remote in hand.  He asked what on earth we were doing, and Britni excitedly explained that I was her mentor for career day.  Steve asked what career I was teaching Britni, and I told him, “In an effort to really help Britni understand the difficult future that lied ahead in her broadcasting career….we were watching every talk show on TV and dissecting what we liked and didn’t like”.  That particular day, Britni decided that Oprah’s dark purple was very slimming, and a great on-camera color!