After we got our formal schoolwork done I called to see if the library was open again – and it was!! Yippee! It had been closed for a week so they could paint.

J1 was able to find Prince Caspian and the Voyage of the Dawn Treader on DVD – it’s by the BBC – love it! He also found a book about Scooby Doo. Oh well, it has more words than pictures and that was my only criteria!

J2 of course hit the reference section first – I have to force him to go to the fiction area even though I promise I’ll read it to him. He found 1 book on the Roman Army and 4 on Dinosaurs and 1 easy reader about a girl who built a robot out of tin cans. Looks cute. The regular children’s librarian was on break so the stand-in enforced the rule about only 2 reference books per topic can be checked out. 🙁 So two Dinosaur books had to go back!

J3 found a cute book about candy that helps teach about adjectives – good practice for him! He also got a book about Keiko the whale in Free Willy – but I can’t imagine he remembers seeing her when we lived in Oregon.

And, I got three books for the boys – “Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator” (need to finish the first one first!), “Peter Pan and Wendy” and “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” (I don’t know anything about this book – so I’ll definitely read it first.) And, for me – I found 3 Debbie Macomber books – I love her books about the ladies who knit! So now I’m trying some of her other books!

So the rest of the day is about reading – with occasional breaks to reboot the laundry or cook dinner! I’m off! 🙂

“Why the change”, Sara asked in comments

Well, nothing really. I’ve been an open book for several years online and nothing negative has ever happened to me. But as J1 is getting older we are giving him time online – and we have tons of guidelines to protect him. But, then I realized how open I’ve been on the website – free to share names, locations, etc. and I’d never let him do those things. Does that make sense? It’s too hot for a better explanation than that! 😉

You might notice some changes recently – and more are coming. I’ve taken all the boys names down and replaced with them code – J1,J2,J3 – I feel safer this way. I’ve left Joshie’s name up because – well, he’s already in the safest place.

I’ll also being making changes to my homeschool blog and the rest of our site soon. I’ll either be password protecting our gallery or taking it down completely. I haven’t decided yet.

One page I’m looking forward to making more up-to-date and efficient is our page for kids links- I’m going to be working with J1 to put links for pages he actually uses online – so that he has a place to visit where all his links are places he can go to!

Well I’d better get back to what I’m really supposed to be doing! LOL

My Secret pal sent me a gift a week ago and I forgot to say thank you! 🙁 Bad Amy!!

THANK YOU!!!!

She blessed me with Veggie Tale coloring books/shrinkies for the boys – some Magic Stripes yarn (knitting a tie for DH) – and a Chibi (for those who don’t knit its a cute little container for your darning needles – and it comes with darning needles!) I feel so spoiled!! I can’t wait to find out who you are so I can get to know you!