Day 3

I haven't had my coffee and it feels like it is 6 am due to the rain. I am tempted to crawl back in bed and steal a few more zzz's. I love a dark rainy day. I can hear the rain beat down on the tin roof of my chicken coop. There really isn't much more you can ask for except maybe a cup of coffee to miraculously appear. For years I have been saying I would buy a coffee maker with a timer so I wouldn't have to get up and make it each morning. But alas my coffee maker has yet to die and I'm practical like that!

* The kids are in the living room playing Just Dance 2 on the Wii. I am counting that as PE for the day, so see I am not shirking school.

* We finished the Giver yesterday, and I was pleasantly surprised. I had originally felt that the content was above Maddy's ability to understand. If we had not read it together I still believe it would have been. It is definitely a book that needs discussion and analyzing to fully understand. For myself I really had to analyze my philosophy of education. It was easy to disregard this book as too mature, and go on, however I have always taught Madeleine with whole living books. This one offered the opportunity to explore and broach many new topics. It was an introduction to what would happen if a society did not value life, and we were able to draw quite a few parallels to today's societal issues. So all that said it was a good choice for us.

* It has been a while since I have given a chicken update. We have six chickens in our coop. 2- red stars, 2- barred rocks, 1 australorp , and a white cochin. We are getting 4-5 eggs a day which is phenomenal for winter. The girls have all settled down and rarely make a peep. It's raining right now so I can hear them in the coop making a purring sound every now and then.

* My life is so boring right now. I am having a hard time thinking of anything to post... I have to go make some coffee, and then off to target for some valentines supplies.