Warm and affectionate dog curled up in my lap.
Walks in the early morning hours.
Time with the folks and the always fun Rodeo Parade this weekend.
Time with the "other folks" coming into town the day after. :)
Slow but steady progress through the MASSIVE online class I'm taking. I'm 56% finished with a month to go.
Great first week of class at UCO. Man, I really love doing what I do.
Repeat students.
Getting the notification that The Path Between Us is finally mine to borrow from the library.
The opportunity to vote today.
Lots of women on the ballot.
The gift of an hour at a local ninja gym for the kids this morning.
Hazel's knowledgeable, encouraging, and and head-in-the-right-place soccer coach.
Kids who play together well.
Pearl's insatiable desire to read. This is especially sweet considering a year ago she pledged to avoid learning to read until she was 11.
She also decided yesterday that she was going to teach herself to tie her shoes using a interactive book we have. She was so determined that she had it mostly figured out by last night. The laces may not stay tied for more than a few minutes, but she's getting closer. :)
A ladies' event at church over the weekend with a guest who shared passionately about how to view our time in God's word as a feast.
More August rain than we've seen in years. Having green grass this late in the summer is sort of stunning!
Zinnias, my official favorite of 2018.
Unexpected lunch with a friend who shared our table at McAlisters on Sunday.
McAlisters tea by the gallon - one tall glass each afternoon.
Two (sometimes three) mugs of Irish Breakfast tea with honey and half and half each morning.
Sunglasses.
BBC's dance mat typing. All the kids have tried it, and 2 have finished. They love it, and it's a great intro to keyboarding.
Speaking of keyboards, Pearl started piano last week. All 3 go together. While one takes her lesson, the other two play with the teacher's similarly-aged daughter. That gives me 1.5 hours to work in silence while they're gone!
Friends bravely trying new things because they believe in its "rightness."
Easy/close Goodwill donation sites.
As of tomorrow, we will have completed 12.5% of our school year.
Great read alouds so far.
We're reading a photobiography (which I didn't even know that word existed) of Abraham Lincoln, and the kids were all disappointed when we read about how he was a very superstitious person - believing in signs, omens, etc. They had built him into a mythic figure and equated his goodness with perfection, I guess literally. It was a great opportunity to talk about how only One was perfect and we can't put our eggs in any basket that's not His.
AWANA starts tomorrow night.
Zeke's affection for a corny joke such as "Did you hear about the drummer who had twins? Yeah! He named them Anna 1 Anna 2." :)
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