Elizabeth Hill

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I am good at dissecting our activities, such that our fun busy
interesting lives look like "school" on paper, but this is actually
the thing that troubles me. Having to do this 180 times a year for
a "daily log" keeps my brain tied to my old "school"y way of
thinking. I have learned to keep the log away from my kids, so it is
just my own head that suffers about it. **

Can you keep a daily "journal" that's more for fun and your own recollection, and then only rethink about it as "subjects" once a week or once a month? You'd still be cranking out a "daily" report, but in a batch, so you wouldn't have to think about it in those terms every single day.

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Another way
is to keep a pretty thorough log for one year, but turn in a very
abbreviated form of it and wait to see if that is accepted.
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This sounds like a sensible strategy.

Betsy