We've had a good couple weeks, in terms of actually living by the routines by which we generally *intend* to live. Our daily rhythms seem so simple, but it's amazing how much we fit into our days and lives when we just stick to those basic routines.

Last week we read about Anansi the spider, read poetry, read bits of The Hobbit, read bits in Story of the World about Egyptian and Sumerian writing, and about the benefits of stone vs. clay vs. papyrus. We played story-writing games, wrote our own madlibs, played Life, played Sarahh's new Clue Spy game. We practiced our drawing, had a hot cocoa bar, and sang so many songs, both new and long-beloved.

We've finally really started getting into the fairie tale role playing game we got Sarah back in June (we'd dabbled in it before, but never really gotten a solid adventure going), and so we're eating, breathing, and sleeping fairies right now. Making dioramas of our fairy characters, drawing comic strip versions of their intros, planning out fairie dolls...

This week we're also reading Creation stories (the two Genesis Creation stories, so far, and talking a lot about what myths are, where they come from, what they mean), making books, singing and dancing to our new Putumayo CD and learning some Pete Seeger songs, making lemon-lime soda pop, and doing lots of Sudoku. This morning we read _and Tango makes three_ and talked more about marriage equality (and also looked at all the wonderful photos K took of Angela and her kids' experience of one of the GSE rallies.

Sarah's practice work (we each assign ourselves homework every afternoon) focuses, as ever, on math and drawing, and she's improving steadily at both.

I'm improving slowly at the bass, struggling to remember the chords I used to know on the banjo (inspired by a friend who just got a brand-new banjo for her birthday), and watching the Anthropology videos on youtube.

Tomorrow we have our friends L and A coming over for fairy scouts. Time to get a little sleep...