From a trip to the wildlife refuge:
What’s in her hands, you ask?
Lots of rocks, of course.
In honor of my sweet cousin Kellianne:
For my Auntie (and anyone else who hasn’t seen the new house):
(I’ll post pictures of the rest of the house later, these were just what were on my camera.)
The living room.
The “school” area.
My craft closet.
The girls’ room.
Their awesome wall stickers.
The view out their window.
The view out the kitchen window.
A squirrely friend in the back yard.
That’s it for now. I’m so glad to finally have my camera working again (the charger had been missing too), so many pictures to take!
by Denise Roy: This was really good, though I can’t remember anything specific from it a the moment. But that should be chalked up to the fact that my mind is a sieve recently, not to the quality of the book. The title pretty much covers it, it’s full of ways to approach day to day mothering in a more mindful way. I will admit that the term “momfulness” kind of squicks me out. But that’s just me.
by Cheri Huber and Melinda Guyol : Another book about mindful parenting. (If you don’t know the term mindful, it’s all about being present in the moment, taking a step away from the immediate reaction to assess what is really happening rather than what your preconceived or conditioned notions are telling you is happening.) I adore Cheri Huber, she speaks my language. This book in particular is extraordinarily useful, as is her reminder to stop, take a breath, and look non-judgmentally at what’s happening inside of you and outside of you. And to do that over and over and over and over and over and over, and to do it every time you remember to do it, so that when you’re in a crazytown insane kid moment, you will do it automatically.
by Cheri Huber: My dad brought me a box of stuff that I’d left at my parents’ house since college, and this book of Cheri’s was in it. Another fantastic one, this book centers on self acceptance and self compassion. She talks a lot about emotion, and how emotions aren’t good or bad, they’re just emotions, and if we can accept that, we can deal with the emotions rather than being controlled by them. Really excellent.
– This is really a curriculum type book, but I read it cover to cover so I’m counting it. 
It has some fantastic ideas for exploring math with kids. I’ll be doing most of the stuff in it with Z this summer.
by L.Frank Baum, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (again! I think this is the third time) with Z. Right now we’re reading the 
by Thornton Burgess.
by Clare Walker Leslie and Charles Roth, which is lovely, and a biography of Thomas S. Monson, and it seems like something else as well. My reading has been really scattered lately, and a lot of it has been dabbling in different education and curriculum books. Hopefully more novels will make their appearances soon. I did just get 
by Eleanor Brown from the library- I’ve wanted to read it, so I was glad to see it hanging out on the new arrivals shelf.