Summer Creativity
With temps and the heat index over 100, August has brought the kids inside. No bikes, no roller blading, rarely swings. I used to spend whole summers in Florida nearly entirely inside as a kid; the only other viable option is to spend it in water. Some day we’ll have water nearby again, that doesn’t require a drive, and we’ll all spend our August days pruned :-).
They’ve been watching movies, more than usual: the entire series of Christy, How Green Was My Valley, Beauty and the Beast, The Little Rascals….
Reading: The Babysitters’ Little Sisters series, Harry potter, and bunch of others they read a chapter or two of and then pick up something different the next day.
Art projects: sewing and embroidering pillows, drawing on the newly harvest butternut squashes the neighbor brought over, a series of plates on the seasons, fashion design, building design…
Cooking: learning to make grits for breakfast, pasta dishes for supper, and dog food mixtures for the puppies.
Shopping: when I was sick, firstborn took my Walmart list and did the whole thing for me, even price comparing!
A few nights here and there Dad has been doing some spelling, grammar, and latin with them but mostly they’ve done a few chores and gotten their showers in the evening. It’s just about too hot to do much of anything else.
