Cousins

July & August Books

July and August were my lightest reading months so far, with only 7 books read between the two of them.  But I did reach my goal of reading 50 books in 2017!

From the church library, this was the story of an American surgeon in Nepal.  I'm not sure why the book is titled the way it is, because goats and loquat trees were mentioned in one insignificant little sentence, as far as I can remember.

Listened to Anne of Avonlea on cd's in the car.  Didn't love the narrator, but this is a cool book cover I found on the internet, eh?  Also makes me wonder why the movie versions don't stick more closely to the stories as they're written.  So good.

I read this only two months ago, yet I can't think of a single interesting fact I learned in this book.  With a little help from Google, I'm remembering, that the main point seemed to me, that anything you think you know about medieval times, actually, the opposite is true.

I love a good old-timey school teacher book as much as anyone, and this one was fine, but it's no Little House or Christy, I'll tell you.  Read this to the boys.

Kiya was a seqel to the other Kiya I read in June (and another Kindle freebie).  It was mildly amusing.

Listened to this in the car as well. Different narrator.  No Megan Follows, that's for sure.

I thought this had the look of a fantastic new book to read with the boys.  It was fine, but super long.  "Marvelously appealing" is an overstatement.

I'm sorry to say that July and August were busts for great books for me.

Not to worry, my dry streak has broken, and I've already read 6 books in September, and 5 were fabulous!  Things are looking up!

Josiah's 10th Birthday

We celebrated Josiah's 10th birthday on Saturday, September 9.

It was a jolly good party, and I will show you some pictures interspersed with an interview with the birthday boy himself.

(He's about to leave for school, so I will have to finish the interview later.)

 Josiah, how does it feel to be 10?

The same as it felt to be nine, it really does.  Please don't write that. 

 Tell us about your party theme this year.

Classified.  Which means no answer.  M.I.X.E.L.S. T.H.E.M.E.

 I see some folks who aren't cousins attended your party.  Introduce us to your guests.

Silence.  Caleb, Eleonora, Lydia, and Josiah.

Joylynn & C.J.

Josiah

Sweet Ca-Ca

The kids had their second night of AWANA last night.  In Caleb's class, the kids can win prizes for saying their verses.  Last year he won a little stuffed animal for Anna Kate, and I guess he had promised to win one for Lydia this year.  Jenn sent me these pictures last night of the toy and note he had given to Lydia.

for lid lid

sore thary war no stuft gies.

retorn toy if not likd - liked

(Sorry there were no stuffed guys.  Return toy if not liked.)

So sweet.  

And don't worry, we have been studying very hard for his spelling tests - even this very morning.

Although now that I think about it, 'there' and 'were' have both already been spelling words this year!

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