priorities

We've moved and after 6 weeks of temporary housing while waiting to close on our house ... we're in and getting settled. We muddled along with doing schoolwork as best we could under the extremely unsettled (and unsettling for small kids) circumstances. We took a number of field trips to new museums around the area, and have quite a list to go!

When we pulled into town on Thursday, May 23, the first three places we went were in this order: 1. our hotel. 2. a Thai restaurant for dinner. 3. the library. No kidding.

There's a great kid section with a lot of toys - a dollhouse, a train table, big Legos and Little People, a table with tons of crayons and blank paper ... the thing I like best about it is that it's completely separate from the rest of the library so it's not a big deal for the girls to be a little noisy. Of course I don't let them run around and yell - they need to learn and practice proper library etiquette. But it's not a big deal when they forget.

I saw this quote online recently:

"Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes. She has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve."

A library card since you were 12? Twelve? Pff! So late! Within a week of moving into our house and getting some kind of something with our name and new address on it, we had library cards. I have one. Sunny has her own. She's 7. Posy has her own. She's 5. Birdie wants her own - she's barely 3. Maybe I'll let her get one, or maybe I'll make her wait until she can write her own name on the request card.

Twelve. HA!

And now we will backtrack and talk about the field trips we've been on in the past 2 months.