Last month we read nearly seventeen thousand books between us…….

pinch and a punch for the first of the month….it’s April Fools Day!

We didn’t read excessively last month, focussing instead on a range of other activities, but we did churn through a few more books, which are listed here.

it’s been a very non-booky week

we’ve planned and mostly organised a silent auction

we’ve made a couple of books

we’ve been part of the ultimate blog party (had to read for that!!)

we’ve played with the new collage creator programme

we’ve kept everyone fed and generally clean

we’ve sorted the winter clothes and made all necessary purchases apart from two pairs of shoes – all up $60, not too bad eh!

we’ve taken two loads of *stuff* to the sallies

we’ve started a major production run of flower presses

i’ve enjoyed a too-short portion of The Lonesome Gods each evening before bed

we’ve bigtime overhauled the vege garden

but we haven’t read any chapter books aloud
and we’ve missed it

It’s a book party here! Every day.
Feel free to pop in to see what we’ve been reading this year, our favourite-est ever books, how Thomas Jefferson affects us today in New Zealand, book reviews, gold stars, our education plan (which includes no gold stars)….come on in and join the conversation.

And if you want to see some of my other loves, you could visit Pilgrims’ Progress, which will eventually be a record of our family’s trip around the world (though we don’t leave for another seven months seven months less one day, but we’ve still got lotsa posts and pages up) and have pinny, will cook (the pinny part I love, the cooking I could take or leave, but I really did want to give my kids – and there happen to be eight of them – a wee record of why we eat what we do, so there you have it).
Oh, and about those kids – they love getting comments on their two blogs as well. If you’d be so kind as to pop in and say HI to them, their smiles would reach all the way to the moon: inventions and adventures……..in awe and wonder