Rainbows, first snow, learning to read and Halloween plans
- Lots of rain and some beautiful rainbows this past week...
- And snow dusting the top of the mountain...or so I'm told, although I didn't actually see it...
- Walks with lots of bear poop on the trail...but thankfully no bear sightings
- Cooking lots...cooking was always such a giving-of-love thing my mom did for us...I always feel like such a good wife and mother when I'm cooking...
- Reading big stacks of library books...and the kids are starting to read with assistance, especially Luke...it's so thrilling
- Luke after a discussion of 9/11 coming up with a plan for a "bad guy scanner," which flashes red when it scans a bad guy and then holds the bad guy still until the police arrive...
- Listening to A Piece of Work back and forth to school (when I'm without kids because there's swearing)...love...
- I love this...
- This blog post with musings about being present and setting boundaries...
- I thought I'd have tons of time with the kids in school to do various things, but turns out the opposite is true as I have a "put-the-computer-away" policy in place now for whenever my family is home...whereas before I was up early working, up late working, working on the weekends when the kids were hanging out with Daddy and/or watching cartoons...work squoze into every nook and cranny and I think I was actually working a lot more than I thought I was...now that I've put some more strict parameters on when I work I'm struggling to get everything done...it's all good though...just figuring out the new flow of things...
- We're thinking porcupine and rainbow unicorn (or maybe Pinkie Pie) for Halloween...we love Halloween...and we're good at planning ahead...
Happy Monday!
XO
