Eat, Read, and Be Mommy

Monday clearly got away from me, but let’s be fair–I had a child home from school AND I had to grocery shop for pie night. (Technically, I also grocery shopped for pie night yesterday, just at different stores. But Monday was the big Walmart trek.) This morning I’m making MY pie–my youngest and my hubby made theirs yesterday–and my oldest is baking hers before we leave for my in-laws’, where my middles are making theirs. Except that I also have to pick up Munchkins for one of those pies and take my son to the orthodontist to fix a broken bracket. Good times…

Anyway. Last night I finished ‘Epic Fails’ #3: Not-So-Great Presidents: Commanders in Chief, which I’ve been chipping away at before bed. (I’ve decided I need to pick books divided into short chunks to chip away at before bed; that’s going to work better than novels in my current stage of life.) It was certainly informative and often hilarious, especially with its casual, chatty, almost gossipy tone; I did think, however, that it came across more as a list of presidents with their good and not-so-good accomplishments than as a book devoted to epic fails. The authors may have skipped a few, but they covered a lot of presidential ground, some of it the antithesis of failure. Still, I definitely learned some new things, and I found myself reading bits and pieces aloud to my husband (did you know that Gerald Ford was named Leslie Lynch King, Jr. at birth?). I’d recommend this one as high accessible history for elementary through middle schoolers, not to mention for reluctant readers.

Well, I’m off to do the things. Have a happy Thanksgiving, folks!