Finally time to slow down after the crazy camp weeks! I highly doubt we will do any camps next year.
Anyway, I finished Rachel Ray by Anthony Trollope. It was such a good lighthearted romance novel! Not like romance novels of today, I'm talking akin to Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. But actually the heroine (Rachel) reminds me mostly of Fanny Price from Mansfield Park, well, without much of Fanny's wit. Rachel is very timid.
Rachel Ray is still a good novel and I enjoyed it. I kept it for the kids to read in high school but I don't think I will read it again.
Esther is napping by herself again! Today she did a short 45 minute nap by herself on the couch, and then she spent another 45 minutes contact napping with me. I'll take it. I'm so glad!! The 2 hour contact nap was literally sapping my energy.
Anyway, it gave me time to read some of my new novel, The Castle of Otranto. First impressions: I'm so glad it isn't as long as The Mysteries of Udolpho because I stopped halfway through that book and I am not sure if I will ever pick it back up. It's too long. Maybe I should buy an abridged version. Anyway, I like the writing style of The Castle of Otranto. And I should finish it soon!
I'm back to the gym today and my blood sugar is doing better, thank goodness. It was 110 one hour after eating lunch today. We had a salad (from fresh market) and ground sausage patties I made, roasted veggies and rice. I'm shocked! That's such a good number! I probably ruined it by having cake awhile later but I didn't check and what I don't see won't hurt me, right? Uh, I bet it's fine. It was a really tiny slice of cake.
We went to the park at 8am this morning to beat the heat--it's going to be 96 today and honestly we stay inside if it is above 90. It's just too hot. After an hour at the park it was already pushing late 80s so we ran to fresh market to grab a cake for tea time and also picked up some flowers and the salad. And I read books to the kids when we got home. It's been so long since I have had time to sit down and read to them it was so nice. Becky picked two Dr. Seuss books and Reuben only wanted me to read one book about the trinity and apples, called 3 in 1, A Picture Book About God. Then I read All of a Kind Family to them.
It's been a nice day. I even put chili in the crock pot for dinner.
I'm working on beating the 2pm slump too. So, today we did the tea party after lunch when Esther was doing her couch nap, and then we did a drawing prompt from Raising Little Shoots. I love their nature prompts, they have a book with one for every day and that's what we use. I got mine bound by the Homeschool Printing company when I started homeschooling 5 years ago and I'm still using it today.
Can you believe I've been homeschooling 5 years? I need more chocolate. And applause. Wow.
Well, the nature prompt only took me to 2:25 so now I need more ideas. Thinking of doing a family game and more read aloud time. Trying to avoid screens for the rest of summer! Today the kids are only getting an hour of screen time and they used it to watch HopeScope on YouTube. I can't stand her videos. But my kids love them. To me it is either unnecessary clutter, followed by a lot of sugar. No issue with Hope personally, just her style of videos are not my jam. But they are definitely someone's niche because she easily gets 1-2 million views per video. Perhaps I should dye my hair pink and eat viral ticktock candy? No, I'd die, lol.
I also have chores, laundry and cleaning and many other things to work on today...including the last arm of my rainbow sweater! Maybe I can get a good chunk of that knitted this afternoon.
And that was my Monday thus far. Maybe I'll have time to add some this evening about the rest of our day when Daddy gets home.
As of now, the kids are being extra loud so I need to go check on what they are doing...there is too much happy squealing going on for sure!
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