Such a fun day! I have been working on some April Fool's jokes for a while...especially once I realized that we would have art on April Fool's Day. I had to take the parents in on one of the jokes. I took little individual boxes of cereal and carefully opened them up and then switched the bagged contents and then glued the box flap back down. So...this morning when the children got to choose their favorite breakfast cereal treat they didn't find what they expected in the box. I think that joke was a hit. Around 8 we had a knock and then the doorbell rang and it was several of the neighbor children with a plate that was filled with food with a napkin over it...they were bringing us some breakfast! What a treat...but it turned out to be play food. Now the joke was on us! And, so the day went...back and forth with jokes. A fun day for one and all! We did manage to have some school in spite of all the fun. Esther and then Joy read to me first thing this morning. Then we had art...which consisted of a maze that was unsolvable...no way for that poor doggy to get to his bone! Then we made seed packets to put doughnut seeds in...didn't you know that doughnuts grow from seeds?!? Ahhhh! Then...April Fools when you open the seed packet and find sugar coated cheerios! They played that trick first on Goosey (Woody), then their Daddy, then Elijah when he got home, and then Joy gave a packet of "seeds" to her speech teacher. After the seed packet trick, we settled in and drew a picture where things were very mixed up...like dogs flying and trees in the air, airplanes upside down, etc. After all that fun, it was time for Abigail's sewing time. We are trying something different. My old sewing machine that I have given to Nathan, Kathy and family that had been residing at their house, has come back to our house for sewing lesson time and has taken up temporary residence in our guest room. It's a rather heavy machine, but portable enough for it to be taken back to their house when they have the need. This way we won't have to run between houses to press or to get things that we have forgotten, when we are sewing. Abigail and I organized and then cleaned the machine and then she started on a project. After school, I ate a quick bite of lunch and then headed off to get my hair cut. Tonight's photos were taken of Lake Tullahoma and some pretty flowers next to the driveway where I get my hair cut. Then it was back to the house where Isaac drew a pretty picture for his mommy and then headed home for a nap. Then Elijah read to me. By that time it was time to start supper...but...I needed to rest a bit. After sitting for a few minutes, I did manage to head downstairs and get a big pot of soup to simmering. (If the temperatures continue to stay as warm as today, this could be our last soup of the cold weather season at this end of the year.)
Woody has done quite a bit of puttering around outside today. He has cleaned up his garlic bed and done various other things in some of the gardens. He has also raked some leaves out of the ornamental gardens. He went on a four-mile walk while I was getting my hair cut. Then this evening he walked to the prayer room at church. He is very much enjoying the warmer temperature and pretty day. Today it actually got up to 80. Woody said that if the days continued to be as warm, he would have to rearrange his walking to a cooler time of the day. He said that he was pretty warm by the time he got back from his walk this afternoon.
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