I had forgotten ...

 

 Last night we didn't turn the TV on.  

It was wonderful.

It's been a while since we've done that.

We really need to do it more.

What did we do instead?

I cooked dinner, and Rory chatted with me,

helping as there was need.  Jono was working on a 

school project.  Alia was just pottering about in her room. 

We ate dinner at the table.

When we were done, Alia said 

"Hey, it's only 7:00!" so we decided to 

play a game. Rummikub
It's a great game.
We all like
it ...

Just over an hour later I was sitting at my desk getting some things ready for today.  Jono was laying in bed reading a novel, Alia was finishing up 'making a recorder', and Rory was in our room playing guitar.  The puppy was barking (lest you think the house was perfectly quite and get a skewed view of reality) and I was up and down trying to get him not to.  But ... it was peaceful.  The house was calm.  There was no rush to get the kids into bed so we could start a show.  There was no rushing around after the show to finish up the things that needed to be done for tomorrow.  

I had forgotten.  

I had forgotten how much 

I love not having the tv on in the evening.

I think it will become a much more regular occurrence ....

 

day 90 {flower girl} 365

we had some time to kill at the school today

my girl spent part of it sketching flowers out of this garden

in other news:

i had a beautiful butterfly lined up in my camera lens

i pushed the button but it wouldn't take

NO MEMORY STICK !!

grrrrrr

i was at work, the memory stick was at home

so ...

it's an iPhone photo today !

day 77 {nutrition} 365

i love teaching my kids by doing

we cook, we clean, we play, we read, we talk, we create, we explore, we adventure

our new project is writing a book on nutrition

it's just for us, just for fun, except that we are learning

each morning, we will draw a piece of food

we will research ~ on the net for now ~ but soon with books from the library

the nutritional value of each food and write that on our page

we will also think of ways we can incorporate each food into our diet

the kids are so gung ho about it, they want to do much more than one page a day

i think that is great and will try to facilitate that as much as possible

after all, my goal was to teach them about nutrition and get

them excited about it. looks like it's working already !

i love that.

day 43 {polish} 365

i love the hands of my busy 7 year old