Thursday add-on

For a better picture of how cool flexibility can be:
Today I had planned on helping the younger girls with their chores and some school work while Sports Nut was at band. Then Sports Nut and I would bake banana blueberry muffins and do school work while Drawing Diva and Mini Marvel played. Instead when I got up, the girls' mattress was in the living room; someone had wet the bed. The girls had stripped the sheets and Sports Nut brought the mattress down so we could sun it outside. I helped the girls get their sheets into the washer, started their bath, and waved Sports Nut off to band class. By the time Drawing Diva and Mini Marvel were clean, dressed, and breakfasted, Sports Nut was back. He came in so excited to tell me about the new notes and terms he had learned this morning. He was also anxious to compose his own song. I gave him the option of cooking or composing and he chose composing. He Googled sheet music and printed blank sheets for himself, found an unused binder and some plastic protective pages, and set to work on his symphony.
Meanwhile Mini Marvel and I set about this muffin-making business. She now has a new word in her vocabulary: improvise. We were out of wheat germ so we improvised and used wheat bran. No sour cream to be found in the fridge so we improvised with yogurt. Drawing Diva couldn't allow Mini Marvel to have all the fun so she came to the kitchen to assist. Drawing Diva can now tell you that there are 4 sets of 3 and 3 sets of 4 in 12. Three bakers can each pour four sets of batter into a twelve-cup muffin tin. All this while being serenaded by a budding trumpet extraordinaire.  All awesome, although none of it was planned. All learning, although none of it is from a book.