Had the four children for the evening while Mom got a night out. She suggested I take them to the library. We went and picked out books. Children's books seem to get better and better each year and I have the perfect excuse to spend time reading them. We got a whole stack and headed home. I read to the three youngest with Jack and Helen on my lap and Sophie perched nearby doing drawings while she listened. We read about a steam train, a Zen master panda bear, and a book of poems that were all mainly about the yummy joy of a good book and a quiet corner. Jack listened intently through about half of it all then trundled away. At least he showed some interest. The girls listened to the entire thing. Richard was elsewhere reading books he had picked out.
Afterwards we read the Bible out loud (finally finished John's gospel), then squeezed in violin and Greek for Richard, reading for Helen, and some math for Sophie. I will now steal away to some quiet corner to read The Invention of Hugo Cabret.
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