Summer: NH, Wed. 7/21

No rain, some sun. We had our usual morning of late sleeping, playing, math review, and reading. After lunch, the kids, Farrah, and I went down to the creek, which is still rushing crazily after so much rain. We came back to the house so Greta could have a telehealth appointment with a pediatrician for a rash on her arms and face (nothing serious). 

Andrew had a stressful two-hour call in the afternoon, so I took the girls (at their request) to Books-a-Million. Going to this bookstore is so exciting for them. Greta REALLY wanted to go because, since she hit 6,000 pages of reading, she was eligible for her "BIG FUN PRIZE" (I think I have the most fun of all of us creating the summer reading incentives). Anyhoo, they get a BIG FUN PRIZE every 3,000 pages, and Greta had chosen a black cat bolster pillow she'd seen at Books-a-Million, so we went and she bought that. Lucia bought a book. Lucia is handling the fact that she has not yet reached 6,000 pages with surprising grace. (Greta pretty much reads nonstop; Lucia has also been diligently working on a writing a long story, and taking notes for a school-required book.) 

Then, just for fun, we went to the Dollar Tree, which had just stocked their school supplies, so the kids picked out a bunch of cute notebooks. Who doesn't love fun new notebooks? 

When we got home, we played a couple games of Chinese checkers, then Andrew grilled hot dogs for dinner, and we sat around the fire pit. A solid NH day.