Favorite Book as a Child.

My favorite book growing up was "Maude and Claude Go Abroad" by Susan Meddaugh. I remember my mom reading me this book as a kid with all the voices. Oh I loved it!! A brother and sister fox are on a ship that will take them to Fox-in-ville, France when unexpectedly Claude fell over board.... and Maude went in after him "...what else could she do, but jump over too...?"  And then the adventure starts.

I read it to my boys now, voices and all.

{this book is well loved we have lost the cover and it's taped up on many pages. We have bought another one and it's set aside for when we can no longer operate on this one}

My boys

6:30pm - clean up

7:00pm - Get ready for bed.

8:00pm - Bed time

9:00pm - Look up stairs and this is what I see. There are three little boys up there.

Now normally I would have sent them all back to bed but upon further observation I see James, Tommy and Tim taking turns reading to each other. They were being quiet and staying upstairs so I couldn't say no. And they were READING! Why would I want to stop that.

They are really good about putting the books back {after a gental reminder} And they put themselves to bed about 9:30. So I say read away!



{you can see Tim peeking past the wall at me}

I got all the boys on the couch for a picture together. It's so fun having the 4 of them, and the boys. And the big ones help out quite a bit with Benji. I still have a hard time thinking that up until 2 months Benji wasn't here yet.

There is something so sweet about this picture. Even with Benji crying, the love that they all have for each other is so sweet. Even with the sleepless nights and the crazies that live in this house it's wonderful to be here.