We got a library membership with a local bookstore this month. Here is my plan, every year on my birthday, as my husband thinks of how thankful he is for me, I’ll ask for the renewal of the yearly subscription. That way, I will have library subscriptions for the rest of my life! Gold! The perceived genius of this plan is on the premise that he would not buy me a membership otherwise, which is flawed. But I like to believe I’m being smart about this. It adds a sense of joy in organising and feeling thrifty with our resources..
Reading and Art
We started with the Little house on the Prairie one very sleepy afternoon and Ahna could keep up with it so we read through half the book. What ana amazing read! I felt some sparks of joy lighting a fire for my reading appetite again after years. I have not been reading for pleasure since a few years now because I have had 3 children in 4.5 years and I feel thoroughly in equipped to raise them. So every free minute of time I devote to reading, where my brain works with me and actually comprehends more than 2 lines, I choose to expose it to something ‘useful’ to on the job training. So this book was a very welcome change. We started issuing books from the library too and enjoyed some Roald Dahl books. Even though I have read most of his work, I found myself reading it in new light now as a home school mother whose idea of literature has changed from ‘globally well known’ to the ‘good and the beautiful.’
The girls have been exploring more with paints and drawing. We also got them a sensory table which they have been enjoying.
Baking and Paper making
This month, Ahna baked a Focaccia completely on her own. She needed help with the actual baking when using the oven but everything else she did. She remembers most of the recipe too! She was mighty pleased. The girls have also been learning how to recycle cardboard to make paper which we then use for cards for our side project “cookies and cards”.
Gardening-
Our garden is producing again. The first fruits of our labour are always sweet to experience, in our case quite spicy to taste because we grow raddishes as the fastest to harvest crop every winter. I am hoping not to grow that again because it is really hard to like! This is the first time I am caring for roses and it is going to be a journey! I have actually grown quite fond of them so I hope I learn to keep them alive and fruiting. The girls get to pick the roses to bring them to our table and learn to appreciate beauty in floral decorations. The idea was to give them that experience but my first born would rather leave them on the plant till they shrivel up for the bees to enjoy them.
Random pictures of some highlights of the month.
I aged to 33 this month. Thanking the Lord for the life in the years He has given me.