Table time is having to be flexible these days.  Now that the weather is warmer, M wants to be in the sandbox all day long.  I can't see her in the sandbox from the school table, but if we make our "table time" into "living room floor time", J & O can do their bookwork on the floor while I watch M from the windows.  Happily, I can see the sandbox from anywhere in the living room.  She's absolutely content to make her mudpies in the sandbox and play around in the yard for more than an hour, while we read history or do math. 

M's Famous Mudpie (Cooking time: not long)

Ingredients: sand (three shovels full); just enough water to moisten the sand (or snow, in  pinch), wood chips for decoration.

Directions: dump the sand and water together and mix well.  Fill bucket to the top.  Carry (or drag) it over to the wheelbarrow and put it inside.  Turn on the timer and walk around the yard beeping until it's done.  Decorate the top with woodchips and eat with a shovel.  Mmmm. Can be made ahead.

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