What We're Reading Weekend

I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done. - Steven Wright
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's
too dark to read. - Groucho Marx
I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write. - George W. Bush

Hee, hee, I love the last one.  We've had great weather for curling up with a book lately.  But I felt like I had so many other things to get done that I've been slacking a little.  I'm in a bookclub, we meet once a month, and February's book is:

Good so far, but I gotta get reading!  "M" just got two books from our town's library yesterday.  She's long finished her school library books that she checked out weeks ago.  The snow and ice seems to strike on her library day!  Here are her picks:

I think the second one looks really cool!  She's really into the Allie Finkle one right now.  She says it's like an older Junie B. Jones.

I'd love to hear what you and your kids are reading this week!

Happy weekend,

D

Flaky, flakes.

What a family!  I love the snowkid, standing on his head!

The girls worked on these guys yesterday with Aunt Nanci and Uncle Tim!



Yesterday I got to stay in and do some much needed house cleaning to get ready for my bookclub to come over last night.  We had another awesome "meeting."  With lots of munchies, drinks and laughs, and oh yeah, the book we discussed was Ella Minnow Pea  by Mark Dunn.  I thought it was pretty creative and thought provoking, but feelings were mixed in the group.  Next month is Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls, March is Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand and April is Room by Emma Donoghue.

Now it's snowing again as I write this, although all the weather people say "Don't Panic!" and "Only a Dusting!" Yeah, I'll believe it when I see it from now on! And next week they promise another storm.  Sigh.  

Well, in case you and the kids are going crazy with all of this time off from school, here's a super simple snow flake craft.  

Here's what you need:  round paper coffee filters and scissors-phew, long list huh? 

Fold the coffee filters in half, then in half again, then in half again.

Give the kids the scissors and let them go to town!  (Just tell them not to cut the fold all the way off, and not to run)

Unfold and voila!

I hung them on the windows (just used a bunch of dabs of the glue stick)

and

taped them on a long piece of dental floss (I have a bunch of those little round containers from the dentist), we use the Reach Flossers so we don't need them,

and hung them on the wall.

Super easy and very festive!  If you wanted to be very fancy you could get out the water colors and let them paint rainbow flakes.

Hope you enjoy!

Happy Friday,

D