Monday

So, what did we do today?  This morning, we watched some documentaries. It was like a little documentary marathon.  I noticed one by IMAX called Amazon, so we watched that first.  It was really short, but we liked it a lot.  There was some vintage footage of indigenous people who were being met for the first time.  It kind of got me teary thinking of the rest of the world slowly moving into their special part of the world.  My girls really liked the video.

After we watched that, we watched the first episode of a show called America: The Story of Us.  It is a history show and was very informative.  It turns out to be geared toward an older audience than my girls.  They will watch pretty much any documentary and they watched this one and seemed to enjoy it, but it was really explicit in the violence department.  After reading the review (see link above) as relating to children, I am not sure if I will continue the show with them.  There are 12 episodes in all, so maybe in a couple of years we can go back to that.

At least we got a view of the colonization of the United States of America and all the way up to the start of the Revolutionary War.  I plan to read the poem The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere to them tomorrow.  Perhaps we will follow up with a book or two in that subject area sometime soon.

After that, we ate lunch and made some cupcakes that turned out to be very delicious.  Then, we watched an episode of Discover Planet Ocean.  It was okay.  It is the 3rd episode the girls have seen, and the first one I have seen.  It has some strange narration, but the children keep asking to watch episodes of it, so they must like it.

Then, we decided to drive up to Keene, NH, to return some library books to the Keene Public Library.  Well, really all the books.  It is too much trouble to drive up there much in the winter, so we returned all the books from there and will stick to our area for the winter.  I can still use all the online services the KPL offers, so that is great.

We also went to Target for a little bit of shopping while we were in Keene.  Juno bought a pair of something called skeggings with her allowance money.  It is a cute mini-skirt with attached leggings.  She loves to buy clothes for herself.  With her allowance, Freyja bought a present for my mom's little dog, Mea.  She bought a (mom, don't tell Mea!) little doggie hoodie that says Santa Paws on it.  It is really cute that she wanted to get a present for Mea.

Then, we drove home and had dinner, and the girls climbed into bed with The Penderwicks audiobook on CD.  It was a fun day!

Ciao!