A Soft, Menacing Growl

The girls both slept late this morning. After breakfast, we went into West Lebanon to run errands--random things at Walmart, some beading things at Michaels, and books at Books-A-Million. Both girls had earned two books by reading two thousand pages plus finishing five books from their school's recommended reading lists. Greta chose just one today, the first in a Rick Riordan series, to decide whether she liked the series enough to get the second book; if not, she'll pick out something different for her second book (such a deliberate child). Lucia chose three thrillers from the YA buy-two-get-one-free table. I tried to get her to choose something less gruesome and more...lighthearted, but she wanted the scary ones. I had to give in, remembering all the RL Stine and Christopher Pike I read at her age. We'll see how she likes them.

It was very hot today, so after lunch, we went for a swim at our cousin's pool. Later, the kids worked on their collaborative story, which ultimately devolved into a fight of them accusing each other of writing things that were not "grammatically correct" and Lucia restricting Greta's access to their shared Google doc. So then I made them do their daily work of math, Spanish, and typing. We had pierogies for dinner and s'mores around the fire pit. Greta was convinced that she heard a "soft, menacing growl" coming from a bush at the side of the house, though none of the rest of us heard anything. Earlier, she said she saw "a fox or a bear" walking down the road. Clearly we all have WILDLIFE on the brain. 

What We're Reading

Greta - the first book of a Rick Riordan series I can't remember the name of (she loves Rick Riordan and the Rick Riordan Presents books but I find it almost impossible to keep them all straight)

Lucia - The Rise of the School for Good and Evil

Andrew - Civil War / hay

Margo - Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl

Read aloud - Little Women