Summer: Wed., 8/18

Busy, rainy day. Greta had speech therapy at 10am, and then both girls got haircuts at noon. Lucia got a light trim; Greta got several inches taken off. Ready for school now. 

For the rest of the day the kids were obsessed with waiting for the Amazon Prime van, desperate to get the new stickers they'd ordered. They checked the porch about every ten minutes. They also played with AG dolls, played outside in the rain, traded with the stickers they already had, did math review, and read HP #7 with me. After dinner we watched two episodes of Bluey.

The Amazon delivery didn't come until after 7pm, and they were ecstatic to start the activity they'd been waiting for all day: laying out all 200 stickers, taking turns choosing, and then beginning a complex process of trading for the most coveted stickers. I expect this to take up much of the day tomorrow. Eight dollars well spent. 

During tonight's reading time, L&G got out all their "take-apart" erasers. You never know what's going to emerge for the evening's reading activity. Last night it was spiral staircase friendship bracelets. At other times this summer it's been pom-poms, coloring, and combing AG dolls' nest-hair. I should have kept better track. There have been so many things. Hey! It's my old friend, the END OF SUMMER REGRETS. I should have kept better records; we should have done more fun things; it's too much unstructured time; it's not nearly enough. 

Andrew and I are planning to distract ourselves from this melancholy by doing a quick DIY reno of the raw storage space of the basement, including the holiday storage room. Paint, shelves, cleaning, organization. I have actually tried to get out of this activity, since my energies are going toward back-to-school, but Andrew has decided to spearhead it. I suspect he has taken ownership because he knows that if I'm in charge, we're going to end up getting cheap shelving at Ikea, and Andrew will do pretty much anything to avoid an Ikea trip.

What We're Reading:

Margo: Imposter Syndrome by Kathy Wang

Andrew: The Highwayman by Craig Johnson

Lucia: Dragon Flight

Greta: Front Desk

Read aloud: Harry Potter #7