It has been hot and unusually humid up here in the mountains, Brendan remarked on how high the barometer was, and today the weather finally broke and there was rain and some thunder. We have acquired a habit of going outside after dinner when dusk is falling, to avoid the heat of the sun. Aidan likes to roll his wheel and trucks down the driveway and push around anything that he can find with wheels — the wheelbarrow, the utility wagon, his stroller.
The older boys like to give the hose to Aidan or Paddy and run away from the spray. Even more fun than a sprinkler!
Kieron is reading the Narnia Chronicles and tonight I read him some of The Horse and His Boy. Tomorrow I’d like to look through our books and find some more so we can get back in the habit of read alouds. For some reason it seems to get pushed aside a lot.
We spent a lot of time cleaning today because Clare has a friend coming to stay for a few days. On busy days I have trouble remembering everything I am supposed to be doing — I get sidetracked so easily — so I came up with a system of writing each thing I needed to do, or memoranda about things I didn’t want to forget, on an index card as it occured to me. So that’s what I did and it was so helpful I’m going to keep doing it. It was easy to have cards in different convenient places and to shuffle and reorganize in order of priority. It is also encouraging when I look back over the completed cards and can actually see what I’ve accomplished. I wrote the memos on the top of the card so I can cut off the completed part or blackline it and then re-use the cards some other time 
We had Story Club meeting #4 tonight and I read a bit of Kieron’s story The Adventures of Link. Liam had written a really nice description of a giant lizard. I am struggling with my “background story”.
They watched The Maltese Falcon.
It seems pitiful to have to write this out, but in my continuing efforts to “be present” for my family I wrote out the following which I’ll paste here since this is a pretty pitiful journal day:
- Take pictures
- Cook
- Organize things and plan how to use them with kids
- Read Aloud
- Play a game
- Go outside
- Exercise and talk
- Eat together
Take an interest in the family:
- Their ideas, what they talk about
- What they do and look like
- What they learn.
- Their possibilities
I actually did do most of these things today but I don’t seem to be able to summon up the energy to write about it 
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