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I have no idea what you’re all coming to see, ’cause I don’t write much, but thanks!

I guess I’ve got a bit to write tonight. 

I took the kids to a teachers’ supply store the other day for litmus paper and “stuff.”  We left with litmus paper, “stuff,” and 3 puppets.  They were having so much fun with each other I couldn’t resist.  I told them I’d get them the puppets, but I expect a play by the end of the week.  They started working on it right there in the store.  DS6 has a dinosaur, DS10 has a police officer, and DDcountingdownthedaysto12 chose a cheerleader.  She’s really not the cheerleader type, but it was the only girl puppet she liked. 

So, from what I overheard, the story will include the dinosaur attacking a city, and the police officer coming to the rescue.  I told DD one of her lines could be, “Save the cheerleader, save the world.”    She cracked up.  (I’m into Heroes – yes, I am a geek, thankyouverymuch – but I don’t let the kids watch it; she’s seen the ads.)

Today, they continued work on it.  They’ll be using the boys’ toy dinosaurs as extras.   

Speaking of toy dinosaurs…I just heard on the news yesterday that Pixar is going to make ToyStory3.  YAY!!!  I love Pixar films. 

Biggest challenge for tomorrow: getting DDnotamorningpersoncountingdownthedaysto12 out of bed by 7:45.  Since we switched to DST she has been crawling out of bed (after much vocalizing on my part) at 8:30 or later, which is really messing up our school day.  It wouldn’t be so bad if she didn’t wake up miserable and stay that way for several hours.  I already warned her she will be up on time tomorrow even if I have to pull her out of bed!

I should talk.  I ought to find a way to disable my snooze alarm.  It might help if I managed to get to bed at a decent hour. 

I think I will do just that.  Good night!

 

Things To Smile About

It’s good to have a day that offers obvious reasons to smile.  I needed one of those today, and was blessed.  First, the simple blessing: my bread rose beautifully today.  My last few loaves (of 100% whole wheat bread) had not been rising well at all.  Odd, as I’ve been making bread for a couple of years now and, for the most part, get consistent results.  I’d been playing with the recipe, but not really paying attention or keeping track of what I was doing.  (DOH!….erm, maybe that should be DOUGH! ) I finally figured out to add more water and change the way I hydrate my flour before making the dough and viola!  Big, happy bread. 

The next blessing was better by far.  My DS6 has been writing “[DS6] Loves Mom” on his DoodlePro for over a month telling me that it was a movie he was making.  Yesterday he wrote on our school whiteboard “[DS6] Loves Mom Opened.”  I asked him what that meant, and he informed me that his movie opened and is now in theatres. 

During recess today, DS10 helped DS6 make paperplate puppets with popsicle sticks.  At lunch, they went up to their bedroom and brought down to the livingroom their various toy containers to build a “puppet wall.”  They also added a few other game boxes stacked on each other.  They wrote me a ticket to “[DS6] Loves Mom” and gave it to me so I could get in to see the show.  DS6 accepted my ticket and directed me to my seat (the sofa) and the show began.  It was adorable (I took DS6 for ice cream) and silly (we were all giggling), and even had a bad guy (the ice cream store owner who told us there wasn’t enough ice cream and was closing the shop).  Oh, I laughed!  A play in 5 acts.  It was wonderful. 

I got a picture of their curtain call:

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And miracle of miracles, they even took all of their boxes back up to their room!    I heard them talking before dinner.  They’re working on another show.  

I’m so glad I homeschool.