Eat, Read, and Be Mommy

That’s what the last week or so has been, folks. We spent the 4th of July in Clearfield, where lightning forced burgers from the grill to the griddle, and went to see the city fireworks with the littles and my oldest (#2 did fireworks with a cousin and her friends instead). We spent most of the 5th there as well, attending a bridal shower at 4, and then the three younger kids and I headed to Idaho for a (very) quick trip while my hubby and our oldest went home. (She had a hard-to-reschedule doctor’s appointment; he had to work.) We got in at 11 on Saturday night, which is never the best case scenario, and spent Sunday and Monday spending time with my nephew’s family (plus other family members) before driving home on Tuesday so that both my older girls could head to youth conference first thing Wednesday morning. The littles and I have been home during the days until now (it’s Saturday morning), and while the girlies get back today, they’re only in town until early Thursday morning, when they leave for a week.

That week is going to be a weird one.

Anyway. The one thing I did manage to do is finish reading Michael Morpurgo’s Kaspar the Titanic Cat (it didn’t seem to have a reliable link) aloud to my youngest. She enjoyed Morpurgo’s tale of a cat brought to the Savoy by a Russian countess and its adventures with the young bellboy who helped take care of it. (I was afraid the details about the sinking of the Titanic would give her bad dreams, but apparently not?) Certainly that was the most vivid part of the book for me; the rest of it was a nice story, but (probably for the most obvious of reasons) that part lived. It’s about 200 pages with occasional illustrations, so accessible for elementary readers on their own (especially animal lovers).* Give this one a try!

*Sorry that wasn’t the smoothest of segues; I haven’t had a good night’s sleep in days.