I have had this book for forever. I checked it out from the library and just never got around to reading it. When I did finally settle into it, I then realized that it was about time to turn it into the library, but they wouldn’t let me renew it because there were over 300 people waiting for it which made no sense to me since I had just found it sitting on the library shelf. Then I realized that in between me checking it out and trying to renew it that Freedom had been chosen as an Oprah book. I have read a LOT of Oprah books and this was probably my least favorite one. It is a 500+ page book that should have been whittled down to 300. I did like the ending, but there was this whole other aspect to the book, sort of a subplot, that took up a LOT of pages, wasn’t very interesting and took away from the main story…in my opinion.
Archive for December 2010
Nike has places all around the country where you can drop off your old tennies for recycling. Today we took about six or seven pairs to one of their drop off sites.
Sean got this bag at a conference he went to in Ireland. He gave it to Colm and Colm made it his Ready, Freddy! bag. Ready, Freddy is a series of chapter books geared towards first graders. These are Colm’s first chapter books and he is so proud of himself…as he should be. I love this bag because he carries it with him just about everywhere we go and he loves going to the library to get more books to read to put in his Ready, Freddy bag.
Our lovely neighbors asked us over for lunch today with several other families. However, when they say lunch, they really mean lunch almost until dinnertime. We had some magnificent food, then played some games and then ate some more. I was STUFFED by the time we left. I have to tell you about the games…oh my GOODNESS! I would be leaving out a huge part of this story if I didn’t tell you that the family whose house we were at are Hindi and so were 95% of the people at the party which played a huge part in the games. First we played movie Charades, but most of the movies were Indian movies. I was cracking up though just listening to everyone yelling out guesses in Hindi… so much fun. Then we played Lotto, which is like Bingo, but not. There was candy for prizes so Colm was very intent on winning, but he didn’t. Luckily, there was plenty of candy left over at the end for everyone.
Goodness gracious this was a busy day! The morning started with an all-school sing along. It was pajama day, so imagine 600+ kids in their pajamas singing Christmas songs with the P.E. teacher on the drums, the librarian on the tambourine and the music teacher on the guitar. It was so much fun to watch! Both of the boys had their winter parties at school, plus after all that wintery goodness, Liam’s class had a lasertag party. I think we all fell into bed that night.
(Project 365-12/17/10)
Liam’s teacher…she is such a gem and such a good sport.
A call was put out to make treats for the teachers, so I whipped up a batch of Eggnog cookies and some Oatmeal Lace cookies with chocolate drizzled on top.
This is our dining room and even though it may not look like much, we are making progress. There used to be no insulation and no drywall here, so this looks pretty good to me. The boys thought it was awesome that there was a guy wearing stilts in their house.
Colm was so excited to finally be able to go the library and read to a dog. Our library in Kansas had this program, so we signed right up when we saw the fliers for it here.
The movers came and put all of our tables and chairs (along with some other things) in storage so that the reconstruction process can begin, so we enjoyed take out pizza on the floor.
