Summer vacation and bribery

Today is the first day of summer vacation.  Well...not really, school was over last Thursday, and we spent Friday, Saturday and Sunday camping....but today is the first day that the kids and I are home with nothing on the agenda.

But thanks to my son totally bombing a state capital test the last week at school and his desire to earn money for an Ipod, he and his sister are in the living room right now studying state capital flash cards.  We've made a deal that when he is ready to retest on them, he'll earn 50 cents for every right answer.   That may seem generous....but when you consider that he only got two right on the test (he even missed Wisconsin....and we live in Wisconsin...and his class took a field trip to Madison about a week before the test) I think the bribery level is just about right.

If we get past the state capitals, there are stil those pesky multiplication tables to bribe on study.