After a Monday filled with numerous activities, I was pleased to have a leisurely day ahead of us. It started off well; we're in the habit of reading first thing in the morning. DD reads some of her books and I read mine. I actually got to finish Charles Todd's The Red Door this morning. I'm still stewing about the ending, but that's another post for another day. If ever.
After breakfast, we went to the Secret Reading nook to read Nurse Matilda, from which Nanny McPhee is derived. We saw the latest Nanny McPhee movie in the theatre a few weeks ago, and I was able to snag this gem at the library. If you've not read these books, we highly recommend them.
Then we progressed to school. Oh dear. DD sailed through math with a slight hiccup about properly writing the number 3 (her concern) and actually popping the eraser off her pencil while trying to scrub out all existence of 3. Tears because this was her favorite pencil, a pencil given to her by grandparents (not). Attempts to tape and glue the eraser back onto the pencil. Once she discovered that we had no idea who had given her this pencil, all was well again. For a few seconds. You get the idea.
I packed a quick lunch, grabbed a few books from the schoolroom and herded her into the car for an impromptu picnic at the park. The day before the first day of fall. A day whose high temperature was 97 degrees, according to the car. With a kid whose idea of walking shoes would enable her to blend right into the land of Oz. So it wasn't exactly the peaceful sojourn into nature that I was hoping for. Maybe tomorrow?
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