Mommathon

This was my latest find at Trader Joe’s. I wasn’t going to buy them, but when I read on the package that they can be served with powdered sugar and maple syrup I couldn’t resist. Glad I got them, too. They are a hit at our house…warm, lemony goodness.

Looks like a good resting spot to me. 🙂

Those book fair people are so savvy. They get the kids in there and give them a list they can fill out and then they bring it home to show you what they MUST have. MUST. Oh, and the prices are on there too, just in case you need to know how much the books cost. Just what we need, more books. (Yes, I took the boys to the book fair today and they each got a book. I DO love the book fair.)

I went in the middle of the day and stood in line for an hour to get tickets so Liam could get one of his Rick Riordan books signed. He absolutely LOVES Rick Riordan’s books and I was so excited for him. I just can’t imagine how over the moon I would have been at his age if I could have met Laura Ingalls Wilder or Judy Blume or Beverly Clearly. Ugh, can you imagine!!!???? Anyways, I got the tickets and we came back at the allotted hour. I was dreading having to wait for forever even with the tickets, but it turned out that we walked in, waited three minutes and they called our number. There were over 2,000 people in the store and it was so LOUD in there and it all happened so fast that I didn’t get a picture of the boys with Rick Riordan. Here’s Liam with this signed book though.

The boys are learning about Frederic Remington this month at school. I went up to the school today to learn how to make what the children will be making so that I can help present the art literacy lessons. Let me just say that I hope that the children’s horses look a lot better than mine did. 🙂

Liam has started his classes to prepare for First Reconciliation. Today we had a little parent meeting/family gathering/craft session. This is Liam making a cross out of clothespins.

I found these Halloween riddles on-line. They are perfect to cut up and put in the boys’ lunches.

Our local Hallmark store has the BEST sales. I absolutely fell in love with these and they were only two dollars! They are salt and pepper shakers. I don’t think I will use them for salt and pepper shakers, but they do look super cute sitting on our kitchen table.

You know it’s a good day when baklava is on the menu.

I have been volunteering a lot at school this year and one of the things I help with is Junior Great Books. It is a program designed to get classic literature, folk tales, poetry, etc. into the hands of children grades 1-5 in small group settings. It’s a great place to talk about vocabulary, setting, problem, solution, etc. The program also has an art component, a writing component and many other ways to take the literature in different directions such as role play and readers’ theater depending on the story, age and ability. I met with my first grade group for the first time this week. I read the story to them this time and then they did some response activities. We will build on those when I meet with them tomorrow. I also found out last night that I am going to leading a third grade group as well. It will be interesting to see how the third grade materials differ from the first grade’s.