Teachingmommy: Busy Summer Days

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Busy Summer Days

How I love summer. Maelin and I are having the BEST time. Even with all the moving hassle and trying to get stuff put away, painting, cleaning, etc. we're having a ball. We've been frequent visitors of the Children's Museum (thank goodness for annual passes!), the park, the playset at the mall, Book Babies at the Denver Public Library, Papa Dan's house, Kat's pool and a host of other fun stuff.

I just wish it could go on forever but we still have about 6 weeks left so I'm going to try not to be sad yet and enjoy it while it lasts! We're still working on getting my camera hooked up to the computer for the most recent pics of baby but here are a few of Maelin enjoying her summertime.

This is a picture of Maelin and Daddy playing at the mall. She LOVES this place and it's been so fun to watch her get more courage as she gets older to try the different foods!

This is MaeMae at the "Garden" in the Children's Museum. She loves just crawling around and she's very busy every time we go.

They have a great little slide at the Museum that's just challenging enough for our little one. She LOVES it and doesn't understand that sometimes it's other kids' turns! :-)

This is at a BBQ at Papa Dan's house with Maelin's two older cousins, Mary and Emmie. Can you believe that Mary is driving now??? Next time you see her, be sure to ask her what she did to my poor car that night when I (big fool!) decided it would be a great idea to let her drive around the block!!

This is Maelin and her two cousins, Ryan and Cole sitting at the big kids' table at Papa Dan's house. Maelin LOVES this table...she crawls right up to it and plops down and eats her dinner or snack and stays seated the whole time. What a big girl!

Keep checking back for Busy Summer Days Part 2...we have a lot to show you!!

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Must Read Books & Great Authors

"A Tree Grows In Brooklyn" is a novel by Betty Smith first published in 1943. It relates the coming-of-age story of its main character, Francie Nolan, and her Irish-American family struggling against poverty in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York. The novel is set in the first and second decades of the 20th century. The book was an immense success, a nationwide best-seller that was distributed to servicemen overseas.
"Gone With the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell. This is my all-time favorite book and you MUST read this at least once in your lifetime. It has won the Pulitzer Prize, it is available in 31 different countries and it has been hearlded as "The Great Amercian Novel"
"My Sister's Keeper" by Jodi Picoult is a heart-wrenching novel about what it means to be a good parent, a good person and a good sister. Kate has had cancer since childhood and her younger sister Anna was concevied to be a perfect-match bone marrow donor for her. As Anna grows up, she struggles with how she and world will see the rights of her own body. This novel is the first book in years that had me crying. It was very well written and very enjoyable if you're in the mood for a tear-jerker.
"The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls is a memoir about a nomadic, deprived childhood told with the wonderment of a child who always wants to believe that Daddy will be a hero in the end and that Momma really does know best. You are enrapt reading about Walls and her siblings rifling through trash cans at school looking for food, doing the skedaddle in the middle of the night, or waiting for Dad to come home after another bender. It's a riveting story and a testament to Walls' desire to rise above a life that could have easily turned her into just another tragic headline. I really appreciated this story because of the very real probability that some of my students are living this very life.
One of my favorite authors (I have everything she's ever written) is Marian Keyes whose stories are set in Britian or Ireland. She is the internationally bestselling author of Watermelon (which is my favorite), Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married, Rachel's Holiday, The Last Chance Saloon, Angels, Sushi for Beginners, Under the Duvet, and her latest, The Other Side of the Story. Her books have touched readers around the world, and they are now published in 35 countries and in many different languages.