Lessons learned

Noah was grilling veggie burgers in the rain and got the grill too close to the house.  The siding melted.  He learned lesson #1: Don't grill close to the house.  Mike didn't freak out about it, but calmly went about ordering new siding.  Noah learned lesson #2: Don't damage a relationship over material things.

 Menards doesn't keep this siding in stock anymore, so it was a special order and took awhile to arrive.  Tonight, the boys fixed it.  Lesson #3: When you ruin something, fix it at least as good or better than it was before.

Hair lessons

The topic of my anatomy and physiology class today was hair.  Noah donated a lock of his to study.  I made a little fire pit for it and set it on fire so I teach about why burning hair stinks so much (there's sulfur in the keratin).

I threw in a quick lesson about false advertising and marketing too.  I had just taught that hair is made up of dead cells (otherwise haircuts would be a painful, bloody ordeal), and then noticed my bottle of conditioner claims to make my hair "more alive".