The Last Little Bit

It's been such an awesome summer.  I don't think there was a whole lot we set out to do that didn't get done (except bread Monday...Evangeline and I had lofty goals of making fresh baked bread every Monday...there's always next summer.  We also didn't get our sleepover with Dad in at the farm.  Gonna have to make that happen soon too.)  I'm going to miss summer vacation so much, but maybe it will be nice to have a little routine again...for a week or so at least.  What I miss most of course is all the time I get to spend with my kids.  The day sure go fast when we are back at school.

 

I may have mentioned this before, but if there is one thing at all that I've done right as a mother it's been the amount of reading I've done with my children.  I think it has everything to do with the children's literature class I took right before getting pregnant with Evangeline where I was reminded of all the various ways reading to children impacts them in such a multitude of positive ways.  We read read read.  Even on our busiest days Kyle and I read to the kids at the very least before bed every night.  Both of the children look forward to being read to, even Evangeline at 9 years old.  Evangeline is always reading.  Yeah, at least I got that right :) 

 

Did I talk about our nook yet?  If I'm repeating myself it's only because I'm so happy with it.  We said goodbye to a kitchen desk and hello to a coat/shoe area.  This has been the summer of organization for me.  I've brought so much order to much needed areas of the house.  

 

In that last week of summer we squeezed in a visit to Dad's house, dentist appointments and a play date with Hannah.  I promised Evangeline all summer that we could have Hannah over to play.  We were so busy, but by golly, I made good on my word on the very last day of summer break...whew!  That was close! 

Hannah stayed for around 5 hours so her mother could do some errands in Terre Haute.  The girls had such a wonderful time together.  They spent most of the day in the play house.  It poured down rain for a good deal of the time and they had so much fun getting "stuck" in the playhouse due to the heavy rain fall.  They came in at one point to pack a basket of lunch to carry back to the little house.  It was precious.  After Hannah left Evangeline told me that they had a dance party, played café with their lunch and took turns serving each other and played lots and lots of board games.  They are the sweetest girls at the sweetest age.