New Books

We finished Freedom Train yesterday. The last few chapters were kind of hard to get through. Today we started Turn Homeward Hannalee and Across Five Aprils. Across Five Aprils is our read aloud so I got it on tape. I'm hoping that will help clear up this cough I've been fighting. Too much reading really dries out your throat! Unfortunately, I didn't really enjoy listening to the guy reading the story. And the boys didn't seem to follow it as well as when I read. We'll try it for a couple days but I may end up reading it anyway.

I have a library dilemma. I try to request our books a few weeks in advance so I'll be sure to have them when we're ready. Our next book is Shades of Gray and I've had it for a couple weeks but we still won't start it for at least another week and a half. I went on-line to renew it last night and they wouldn't let me. It's been requested by another patron. I feel bad not turning it in when someone is waiting for it but mostly I'm annoyed that they won't let me request any additional books when I have an overdue item! I'm going to need our next book as soon as we finish Shades of Gray but I won't be able to reserve it until I turn in Shades of Gray. What to do? What to do? I'm thinking it may be time to get a pin number for Adam's library card so HE can reserve books on line.

Matthew is really messing with our schedule today. He seems to sense right when we're about to start Spelling. I try to do it while he's napping since it's a totally teacher directed subject and he's a total teacher distractor! But today I waited too late and he woke up just as we were starting. He wanted mommy and was not going to be deterred. We ended up doing Spelling over the sounds of a fussy baby and we skipped Language altogether. We haven't done math yet today and we haven't done Science all week. I guess I should get off the computer and turn off SpongeBob.