Arianna was very excited this week to get real, honest-to-goodness homework. She no longer has to pretend she has homework, like she often did when she was little, even up to last year. The homework is that she has to read by herself, out loud to one of us for 20 minutes. She usually reads to Mommy, and when the timer goes off after 20 minutes, Daddy makes a big show out of stomping upstairs to get her to stop reading ‘and getting too smart’. Naturally, now Arianna wants to read longer…yea, sneaky Daddy!