Like many parents with kids, Zandra and I often help our son with his homework. This week, though, I am curious to find out what Andrew's teacher must have thought about us after his Wednesday spelling homework....His assignment was:

"Write sentences for each of your spelling words and use an abbreviation in the sentence. For example, 'The dog was barking on Elm St.'"

The sentences I helped Andrew with were like, "The peat moss weighed 40 lbs." and "Mr. Smith asked us whether or not we ate lunch."

The sentences Zandra helped Andrew with were like, "There is a shortage of R.N.s in hopsitals, " "The S.P.C.A. encourages you to keep your pet on a leash," and "There is a P.D.R.* on the shelves."

Hmmmm...not sure about some of those.

*P.D.R. stands for Physician's Deskside Reference