Wishing I had more... patience.  Enough said.

For lunch today: Jerusalem lentil soup, oatmeal bread, and local nectarines: so ripe.  SweetP sat under my chair and begged from bread, because she refused to sit in her own chair.  This morning we took a walk and collected as many different colors and types of leaves.  This afternoon we'll make leaf rubbings and make them into trees, so emphasize the connection betwen the leaf's shape and the tree's shape.

I'm recovering from a terrible sore throat and chills/fever.  I'm grateful to be healthy again.

Here's J, now 8, who does mostly fourth grade work.  I cherish his love of learning, his creativity, his compassion, and his laughter.  This week he's into dragons again.  He takes turns being the different dragons for whom I'm the keeper.  He's frustrated that this year, I'm asking him to do more independent work... he'd love to sit on the couch and be read to all day long, if I'd do it.

Here are the kids with M's window markers.  They're making a mural.  SweetP can't figure out what it is, though, and keeps swiping at the window to catch the colors. 

Here's my O, now five-and-a-half (and still not allowed to cook with fire.)  He's my lover of the outdoors, the one who loves to run and is training for another kids' race in October.  He's learning to read despite himself, thanks to Study Dog and Explode the Code.

Here's M, before Grandma kindly took her for a big-girl haircut at a salon... and then M decided to trim her own hair further.  It's a little shaggy now, but at least she can't suck on the ends anymore, right? 

In other news, we fixed the doorbell (it had been crushed by too many little fingers pushing it over and over and over and over and over).  J did most of the work.  O and I installed a dimmer switch on the 600 watt lights in the master bathroom that just about BLINDED me every time I tried to find the chapstick in the middle of the night.  (Why don't you just put the chapstick in your bedside table? you ask.  Because M will find it and eat it.)

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Posted by La Gringa

So glad you're feeling better! Love the photos and updates. Nice work on replacing the doorbell and installing a dimmer switch-Aaron would be so proud!

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