All for a good cause

I allowed DQ to participate in the St. Jude's Mathathon. We got the disc on a Monday but we didn't have anytime work on it that day. So I told DQ that she could work on it in the morning if she woke up early enough.

Tuesday morning at 5:30AM DQ calls for me. I wander bleary eye down the hall to her room to find out what the problem is. When I get there she wants to work on the CD-ROM for the Mathathon. Frankly I was disturbed for being aroused from my sleep so very early. I mean I get my best sleep done in the hours between 4 and 7 AM. So I told her to lay down and go back to sleep.

Now 6:30 AM rolls around and another call from DQ issues in the monitor of our bedroom. Realizing that I simply was not going to get anymore sleep I get up and set up my laptop. I put it in the front room. DQ comes and starts working.

Out of the early morning fog comes Passionfruit. He is an angry bear. The math game is too loud and is disturbing his sleep! Grrrrrrrrr! I think what in the world do think is happening to me. So I quietly move DQ and the computer to her father's study. DQ spends about 1 1/2 hours working on the math problems. At one point she gets so angry with me because she can't do something. It's really quite funny. She's so tired she can't work the problems.

In conclusion, DQ, within 2 days, finishes all the questions for her grade level. I up the ante by asking her to work the 2nd grade level questions. She's about 1/2 way through with them. DQ also raised $100 for the St. Jude fund. I really am quite proud of my little math wizard.