Our Grateful Tree is up in the dining room. I found a branch in my neighbor’s forest a few weeks ago and she let me drag it home to plunk in a pot, becoming our November tree in the dining room. Actually, my friend was about to use the branch for kindling for a bonfire, but she said I could have it. Writing what we are thankful for each day on decorated tags has been a really great tradition these last few years. Our tree is starting to fill up and I love reading what the kidlets write on the tags.
We are still enjoying amazing apples and homemade applesauce. Yum.
Over the weekend I rented and downloaded the classic Sesame Street movie Big Bird Gets Lost. It was one of my childhood favorites. I remember laughing and laughing in the theater and thinking it was pretty much the best film ever. The kidlets really loved it too. They’ve been quoting from it all week and just the mention of moving haystacks sends them into fits of laughter.
We have front steps again! Our old steps were crumbling apart and have been a mess for more than a year. It was starting too almost look like a haunted front entrance. For a couple of weeks the steps were torn apart while the new steps were being constructed, and that meant all of my students had to come around to the back door, which was fine, but arduous. I’m very thankful the front entrance is back in commission.
For a couple of years my old Papasan chair that I got for Christmas in tenth grade has been languishing in the attic. The Banana asked if we could get it down because it is such a great place to read. I thought that was a reasonable request, so we shifted some things around in the cabin room and squeezed it in. The kidlets and cat have been squabbling over it ever since, because everyone wants to read in that chair, it seems. Well, the cat naps. He doesn’t read. It’s nice to have the papasan back! I took that chair to college and napped and studied my way through academia. I corrected countless papers in it when I was teaching English. I enjoy seeing it used.
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