Homeschool "Breakthrough"

I've been lacking the necessary motivation for homeschool since our Thanksgiving break.  We've been doing a lesson here and there, but haven't really put in a "full" day of school since the break.  It's hard with winter break just around the corner to go fully back into "school" mode. 
Even though my motivation has been lacking, we did have a really good day today.  Last year we used curriculum that introduced cursive (intensive) for Ethan.  Poor kid, we had constant struggles with cursive and about 3/4 through the year I finally said, "Enough, we'll put this aside till next year."  I couldn't fit a full English unit into this short period of time between Thanksgiving and Christmas breaks, so I pulled out some other material that I bought but decided that I'd save for Josiah.  For something different I thought I'd pull out one of the English units and have Ethan work through it.  Today we came to cursive...and there were no tears.  AND, his handwriting was SO much improved AND he was proud of himself for doing such neat work.  Phew!  I was really dreading coming back to cursive.  Major breakthrough! 
The second thing was something Ethan said.  He was working on Roman Numerals (which, quite honestly confuse me and give me a headache)...adding Roman Numerals!  Yikes, I thought it might be a little too much for him (because it took him awhile to finish), but he loved it!  He asked me to make him MORE problems with Roman Numerals.  Seriously!