A Time For Every Season....

All is quiet on the Williams front. John is sick and went to bed at 3pm and the kids were all in bed by 8 pm. I managed to wrangle enough energy to clean up the kitchen, do a load of laundry and vacuum! Today has been a wonderfully needed day of catching up and getting quiet and still with the kids. Today enacted a slow "get ready for school" afternoon. I brought out some of their mysterious curriculum and we went through some of their overviews. The boys each did Math fact sheets and some explode the code. I read some of the Apologia science text for next week and we focused on listening and not interrupting.  I had Drew write some sentences, working on proper placement and upper and lower case letters. He also had his first cursive lesson on the letter "a." Then we read this great book about a Giraffe that goes to Paris. I finally figured out how to read a book to all three kids - the rule is mommy asks the questions, no one else can. This worked perfect, they a...

 Dear Grandma, It was a delight to see you, even if you didn't really remember who I was. I loved how you laughed and enjoyed my kids. It meant so much to me that we could travel to Seattle and spend a few days visiting with you. For a brief moment I saw you, you got up after the above picture was taken and said you needed to help in the kitchen, you had that commanding spark in your eyes like you were ready to take on the world. My sweet Abby was taken with you, she loved for you to read her books. I remember you reading all 9 of us Granddaughters "Bubbles The Whale" when we were all small, we loved that book and sitting on your davenport that rocked in the living room. I was so pleased to see that same davenport in your new little room! Remember when I would spend the nights at your house, you would give Julie and I each one of Grandpa's white t-shirts and let us sleep in your comfy bed! Oh it is so hard to imagine you as growing old, where did all that ti...

My kids love tea and so do I! That makes for some fun mornings in our house. I was impressed with their determination last week, they used a towel as a table cloth, a clothes basket as a chair and found our special tea set Daddy brought home from Vietnam last year. They even included cream and sugar! They were so tickled to sit and sip hot/sugary tea while  I read them a book. PS - I especially love Abby's underwear attire and the boys PJ's!