I am sooooo glad to be back on our schedule!! Oh my goodness, there’s something so much easier (in some ways) when the kids have specific tasks they have to complete…all. day. long. Oh, it’s so nice to be in that groove again. By the end of last week I was kind of dying. We are going to need to keep some sort of schedule in the summer because letting the kids do what they want all day long makes me slightly crazy. (Not that I mind their activities–but it actually ends up being almost more work in some ways…)
I also added two new things to the schedule. At 2pm we had our audiobook time where the older girls and I all listen to E.H. Gombrich’s History of the World while coloring or playing with play dough. Then at 3pm we had our Shakespeare tea time. We eared Marullus’ speech to the Romans about a dozen times while drinking tea and eating biscotti. This was my favorite part of the day. Ammon loves to join in and repeats the lines after us in his half-way-there linguistical way. It is darling. Like, so, so, so cute. Lydia and I both fed him the lines of the entire speech at least once each because we thought his acting was so hilarious. Next time I will get a video.
Here is a video of Mary reciting the speech.
Here is a video of Lydia reciting the speech.
Here’s a picture of the girls during our Shakespeare tea time.
