• Had "alone time" w/ each girl in the changing room while Caroline slept. Pretty much a disaster because they all complained that it wasn't ENUF "alone time."
• Gave up, packed a lunch and loaded everyone in the van and we went to the beach!
• Home in the afternoon. More outside play time. It was so nice out.

• Morning chores going well. Maybe time to start doing weekly cleanup.
• At breakfast, listened to Vivaldi and talked about the instruments.
• Did art postcards with MED. Caroline played in playpen.
• Erika - drawing
• ME - built a fort. D did cuisenaire rods with me.

• Read books
• Pattern blocks & Lincoln Logs
• Phonics w/ Madeleine
• Took Caroline in for weigh-in
• Library
• Lunch
• Book on tape for quiet time. I fell asleep
• M-practiced signs and sounding out. While DE played together.
• Little House video
• dinner
• video
• clean up
• night time poems.

• M - read 5 minutes
• Read Char Web - finished!
• Quiet time
• Lots of Blessed Imelda discussions
• FHC prayer corner
• Cleaned living room - puzzles, etc.
• Counting activities with Dorothy Jo
• Penguin activities from Grammy's gift
• Drawing - Madeleine & Erika
• Puzzle time while I revised FHC letter

• Madeleine read out loud - 2 booklets
• Eggshell art - 30 minutes
• Books with Dorothy Jo - 20 minutes
• Listened to Classical Music and book from oma / opa
• New Signing Time DVDs. Discussed doing a song at the Variety Show. They all want to do their OWN song. Great.
• copy work. 10 minutes
• 2 bible stories for Sunday.
• Did Helen's "Mass Preparation for children" - posture

EM - each did a bit of reading. Erika's not to keen on it. I think i'll drop it for now with her.
Play time while C slept and I did cleaned up, made phone calls, cooked dinner.
Little House video
Did birthday thank you notes at the table.
Girls helped clean, rearrange, organize for about 30 minutes this afternoon.
Walk
Outside play time

Easter Week

• Definitely need to pull the house back together. Lotsa birthdays and Holy Week leads to explosion, as I can't keep everything picked up and put away.
• Read Emmaeus bible story at breakfast this morning. Lots of good discussion from little minds that grasp more than me most of the time.
• Clean up, chores.
• Caroline a bit sick-down for a nap.
• Colored in Easter coloring books while I read "Maid from Emmaus" from Hague's Easter Treasury. Read La Salette book and a couple of other Easter books at table.
• Girls listened to bird calls on website while we waited for Jemma to arrive.
• Jemma over for 2 hours. Played w/dolls for about 40 minutes, then outside until lunchtime. I fed Caroline. Cleaned up. Did paperwork, laundry.
• Lunch. Ugh--can't wait for the Easter treats to be gone. Madeleine and Jemma read one of their "easy readers" to everyone while waiting for the waitress (me) to serve them. They did GREAT! Yea! I officially have a child who is beginning to read. Erika recited "I am a bunny" several times.
• Jemma, E,D - silent reading time on couch while I did MUS with Madeleine.
• Julee picked Jemma up.
• I did Pattern blocks with everyone on the floor.
• Snuggled up on couch for some picture books.
• Worked with Erika on letter sounds, etc.
• Quiet time. (not so quiet) Can't get Caroline down for her 2nd nap.
• Girls played dress up while I attempted to read for 15 minutes.
• Ironed in living room while girls played.