Day With a Daughter

One day this week, Jonathan took two boys with him to help at Grandma and pa's new and old houses. 

That left me with more time to spend with my littlest daughter.

 Above, she had finished scooping granola into its carton from the mixing bowl. 

Then we had a little sweeping lesson.

 Learning, like Laura Ingalls was taught by her ma, to "draw the broom," not to push or flick it.

 More morning work--emptying a bag of rye grain into big jars. We use rye a lot since some of us are allergic to whole wheat.

 Somewhere in the middle of the morning, Mom discovered that the trash bag had not gotten taken out, as she had asked a certain boy to do.

He got to take it out ten times--a consequence she had read about recently, so the idea was not original with me!

 The pleasant thing about it was that the boy accepted the consequences cheerfully, running back and forth as fast as he could, in and out of the door, to the trash can and back again, laughing at how he would try to avoid Mom's camera!

Consequences taken seriously and yet lightly can turn into a reason to laugh!

So the next time you are suffering consequences for some dumb thing you did,

remember not to take it too seriously. 

Just listen, learn,

and laugh.

 Then came kindergarten time, workbook activities and practicing writing numbers on the board.

 Then big sister let Hannah use cookie cutters to cut out biscuits in fun shapes for turkey gravy

over rye biscuits for lunch.

 In the afternoon, Hannah likes to listen to story tapes from the library.

 She likes to remind Mom when there are birds at the feeders.

 And she made a big floor puzzle, which she decided to wear like a turtle shell!