Favourite thing from yesterday: Ben's delight when he discovered that some playdough we'd made looked exactly like poop and he could plant some in Michal's room to trick her. He spent many thrilled moments determining exactly where--on her pillow? on her bean bag? on the rug?-- it would have the most dramatic effect.
(The playdough, btw, is made from 1 cup of ground coffee, 1 cup of flour, 1 cup of salt, and 1 cup of water and is supposed to look like "antique stone" but Ben's right that it does bear a remarkable resemblance to poop when wet. That said, it's fun to play with if anyone is looking for an alternative playdough recipe.)
Favourite thing today: "Family reading" by the fire this evening. In an effort to address Ben's reading difficulties we've begun "family reading" (which I know sounds very Victorian! Unlike the Victorians, however, we don't read out loud). We sit together quietly for half an hour and read on our own. The only rules are: no talking, no computers (thus, no reading on the computer). It's remarkable how rarely this quietly-reading-together happened in our family (possibly never, in fact) before we installed "family reading" as one of our evening activities.
My last thing is neither from my day nor from the favourite thing list but seemed appropriate nevertheless. Louise and Peter recently sent me a link to Yann Martels's website on which he lists the books and letters he sent to Stephen Harper. I don't love all the books (and haven't read a lot of them) but there are a lot of books on his list that I do love (Marilynne Robinson's Gilead [although I liked Home better], Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, Ann Carson's Autobiography of Red, lots of others) and I liked the letters he sent with the books (the few I've read thus far at any rate). And so I thought I'd pass this on too: What is Stephen Harper Reading?
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