It's late for me, should be going to bed as I have to get up way earlier than I care to think about at the moment.  Spent the evening planning what to take on our road trip to Portland, OR (about 4 hours one way).  Going down there to visit family and help my mom move.  The kids ALWAYS love a road trip so there is a positive in that!

Two really great thing happened today that MUST be mentioned.  First, as Jack (7) and Emma (5) and I were reading in our Usborne history book via Sonlight...Jack really made a connection to our reading.  It was a very awesome thing to see the light bulb go off!  He told me that he wanted to be an astronaut like Neil Armstrong and walk on the moon too!  So cool!  Then a little later we were reading The Apple and the Arrow (which I previously thought would bore them to death) and I was having fun with lots of dramatic voices and inflections and such....he was so into it he didn't want me to stop!  Very very cool moment!!

Second awesome thing?   Well my eldest dd (13) loves to learn, but usually not by reading.  It took me a LONG time to realize that loving to read does not = loving to learn.  Learning can be done in oodles of ways!  SO....here's the cool thing...she's reading The King's Fifth via Sonlight Core 7 (Intro. to World History Part 2) and decided she'd read ahead so she wouldn't have to tomorrow.  A little later I saw her still reading!  I asked her "Are you finished?"  She repled....wait for it....."Yeah, but I got really into it and don't want to stop!."  I almost fainted.

You see I LOVE to read.  Don't have a lot of time to do that right now.  But I work it in when I can.  I am endevoring to read Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife (sequel to the much loved Pride and Prejudice) and love it...just no time. 

But I digress, the point of today's post is the DELIGHT I experienced today with my kids.  Oh we had drama and fussing and all that not-so-fun stuff...but these things...these are what I want to remember.

Yes...this was a good day! 

Blessings~

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