3 day weekend...

The girls are in the midst of another LONG weekend...Martin Luther King Jr Day, Milk Day as Emily called it last year (she was quite disturbed that she was off for "milk" day when she doesn't even like milk...MLK does not, indeed, spell milk).

Ella is, of course, thrilled to be home. She doesn't much care what we do or where we go, although she'd like to stay home and play on the Wii all day, she just likes being home. And I think that is it really, it's not that she doesn't like school because she does & is doing very well (love notes from one little boy AND one little girl in her class)she just REALLY REALLY like me...surprise surprise!

Emily is going to miss her reading club again tomorrow. It meets Monday,this is the 2nd week in a row of no school on Monday so the 2nd week in a row of no Skinny Book Club. The idea of the club is to get kids to read & & write book reports about 100 "skinny" books (each chapter of a multi-chapter book counts) during the school year. The first club date was November 2nd & so far she has read & written about 60 books! Go Emily!!! She really is okay with being home an extra day, this time. It has taken her the better part of 2 days to get her game "set-up", not because she is that slow but because we keep "making" her do things that disrupt her (like sleep, eat, church...)she has finally gotten all 20 Barbies dressed for the party, all she needs to do is put the furniture in the house & she can play.... good thing we have tomorrow!!!!!