I am back blogging so I can’t remember much about Tuesday. So I’ll write about something else. Ever since we had the flood, we moved a bookshelf with children’s books upstairs from the basement. I have been theming this bookshelf for whatever we’re celebrating during the month. In February we celebrated Black History month, and our bookshelf helped us to read Langston Hughes’ poetry, biographies of famous African Americans, and helped prompt us to watch Hidden Figures.
In March the bookshelf has been themed for international women’s month, so we have been reading about famous women and reading Emily Dickenson’s poetry at dinner. (We did take a slight break to study some paintings by Van Huysen one night this week, too). It has been SO wonderful to have our dinner conversations based around these themes. The kids are really fun to talk about history, poetry, politics, and art with. Dinner used to be the bane of my existence. It’s now really fun.
Also, I should say that Harriet Tubman made the bookshelf for two months straight because she is Lydia’s life hero. Lydia picked Harriet Tubman as the woman she wanted to be in her class play, and she has been obsessed with her ever since they had the civil war unit in school.
And one of these days I need to just video Mary’s responses to our dinner table questions. She is so earnest and hilarious in her reflections.