Eat, Read, and Be Mommy

Seriously, folks. I just finished listening to all of the ‘Little House’ books again since my youngest started the series, and as far as I can tell, ANY time ANYONE just needs one good wheat crop to pay off their debts and start making a real go of it on a farm, it NEVER ends well. (Did that need a spoiler alert? This does, too, then–does any wheat crop in the whole entire series ever come out well? Maybe in Wisconsin…) I mostly read the first four books multiple times growing up; the rest of them must have needed checking out from the library, so my memories of them were spotty. I read the whole series when my oldest child or two was little-little, but that oldest turned 19 yesterday, so it had been a bit. Now it’s just hard, because instead of relating to Laura, I’m worrying and working with Caroline and Charles, and it’s not at all the same experience.

Anyway. It was an odd sort of birthday celebration yesterday–the day seemed to creep up on my other kiddos, my oldest doesn’t like to choose food, Saturday’s BYU game was a late one, and my youngest sang in the retirement center’s branch sacrament meeting in the morning. We didn’t even have family scripture time until after church, and I work pretty hard to avoid that. Still, we were home together as a family, the kiddos got to bed at a decent time, and I’ve been relatively productive this morning. Cross your fingers for me that it stays that way for the rest of the day!