We weren’t planning on being cowboys for Halloween, but the boys found a bunch of props and costumes I used for a play my class did about seven years ago when I was still teaching. They found boots, vests, sheriff badges and all the cowboy essentials. I am not sure if they really want to be cowboys for Halloween or not, but they sure did look cute.
Archive for October 2006
I highly recommend this book. It is the kind of book that made me smile when I read the last line. It is the story of a woman who has polio and gives birth in an iron lung. Her husband promptly leaves her and offers to have the baby adopted out. She will have none of it and manages to raise her daughter even though she is paralyzed from the neck down and needs a respirator to breathe. This book chronicles the ups and downs of their lives as they try to make the best of their situation.
Fishing with Papa
Colm helping Papa steer the boat
We went and had dinner at my in-laws this evening and they live on a lake. The boys love to “fish” (there aren’t any hooks on their poles) and to help Papa steer the remote control boat around the lake.
This morning while Liam was eating his breakfast he said, “Mom, I can feel myself growing, but the gravity keeps pulling me down.”
Well, I finished it. This was the book I lost and was determined to finish even though it had words in it that no one, and I mean no one, uses on a daily basis. Seriously. I have a librarian friend who has also read this book because she is a librarian and she has to and she wasn’t a big fan of this book either. She did say, however, that this author has written another book that is very good…maybe I’ll try that one.
It was a beautiful day for the pumpkin patch!
Liam and some of his classmates riding on the wagon to go get their pumpkins.
King Colm…king of the haybales!
The perfect pumpkin
Have you ever lost something and nearly drove yourself crazy trying to find it? That happened to me last night. I lost a library book I was in the middle of reading. I remembered reading it while I was waiting in line to pick Liam up from school and then I thought I remembered reading a little bit of it while I was waiting for Liam to have his violin lesson. I looked EVERYWHERE! I looked in Liam’s violin bag at least 10 times, I looked in his school bag, I looked in our Sunday School bag, I looked in the car numerous times, I looked all over the house…nothing. So today we drove all the way to the violin shop where Liam has lessons, which is not close I might add, and they did not have it. Then I called church because we had gone there briefly after preschool yesterday to prepare for Sunday school, they didn’t have it. I was going to call Liam’s school today to see if it somehow fell out of the car and I didn’t see it, but they were gone on a field trip. What is so funny about me losing this book is that I have thought about not finishing it several times. This book is like a book that you would read for an honors English class in college. It is not an easy read. I am not sure where I found out about it, but since it is that kind of book it has won a gazillion awards and I guess I should somehow feel smarter since I have read it. But now that it is lost I am frantic. I must finish it…I can’t even imagine not finishing…I MUST finish it!!! So tonight, I had an epiphany. Liam’s violin bag has a little pocket on the side that I had failed to look in previously and guess what, VOILA, there it was with the wrapper I had stuck in it to save my place. As soon as I saw the wrapper, I remembered exactly what had happened. When we were at Liam’s violin lesson, I only had about two minutes to read and I didn’t have a bookmark, so I fished around in his violin bag and found an old wrapper to use as a book mark. Now my book is sitting on the desk beside my computer, but I can’t read it right now because Project Runway is on.