Heidi

Hi people

Just thought I'd post a "What Our Day Was Like" post, only it'll
cover a few days. How's that?

We have about a dozen batches of glop around the place. That gooey
stuff recipe is SO simple, and really easy to clean up after, that
the kids have used up pretty much all the glue in the house, making
different colors of glop. Purple, that Katie and a friend made and
divvied up; reddish brown so it looked like guts; brownish green so
it looked like stomach fluid (according to Robby, who made those
batches); teal that Abbie made, and a batch of black to look like
tar.

Katie has been very busy with a daily "shop" out front: lemonade and
cookies so far, but we'll bake a batch of bagels for her to offer the
public ;) She designed a sign for it on the computer, and then
executed her plan on a big piece of plywood, and has that propped
against the legs. She sold a bunch of lemonade to the migrant workers
across the road, on her first day, and a farmer advised us not to try
and retire on the proceeds from her shop! L "Don't quit yer day job!"
She made $1.60 that day, and today nothing, though not for lack of
effort. That's been keeping her busy for a few days.

On Wednesday afternoon, she and a friend went up in the treehouse and
painted, and they're heading up there again right now to do some
more. On Weds, my hubby also hung hummingbird feeders and I made a
decision about sugar water instead of honey water :( but honey is SO
expensive. $20 a gallon, and that's before prices started soaring.

Weds night and all day Thursday, I went to SLC with a girlfriend who
makes glass beads, to a wholesale show/shopping expo. She wanted
company for the drive down, and I wanted a chance to see my
grandbaby, so we did that. Wonderful, beautiful Aidan the Perfect!

Oh, I bought a strand of round stone beads, of various stones at the
bead show. Lots of potential, in all those different types of beads.
Earrings, possibly a simple necklace.

Got home really late on Thursday night, and spent the morning
reading. Kids slept in, from waiting up for me. And Robby has been
gone all day on an odd job with his dad, while the girls and I have
been home. Abbie's re-reading Harry Potter IV and I'm reading some
Modern Fiction (which I haven't done in AGES: read for pleasure? not
in a LONG time).

Today, while Abbie was at Drama, Katie and I played in the park. You
know, this group has been good for me, because I'm seeing "say yes to
your kids" "spend time with your kids" "be there beside your kids
working and playing and talking" I am reading a pretty good novel
(Sea Glass by Anita Shreve) and would have been content to sit and
read while Katie played. And, while the school group of little kids
was there, that's what I did. But then the school group left, and I
listened to the Unschooling Yahoo Group in My Head. Got up and slid
down the slide with her! It's a very fast, spiral slide, and we did a
train SO FAST that we ended up in a pile on the ground. Then we found
a plastic dome thingy (like, for a fast food salad or something?) and
dug down to find the moist sand, and built mountains. If you put dry
sand in the middle of a packed moist sand mountain, you get a cave!
and a cave in...

That sand felt so good on my hands. Cool and heavy. I wouldn't have
done that if You All weren't there telling me "Play with your kids!"
Thanks for doing that!

peace, HeidiC