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Manual Kite Flying

Rather than overwhelming myself with trying to post four months of photos and activities, I will just start posting anew with our activities today.

We have had a fun and very productive day today.  First, we tackled Molly's room.  After an hour or so of hard work (and a few reading breaks for the kids) we could walk around in it again!  Molly is like me and gets supercharged when we finish a task that is noticeable.  So, she finished organizing her little tubs while I moved on to the play room.  I noticed that we hadn't hung out in there for a while but didn't really think about why....until I took down the pop-tent that had been hogging the middle of the floor for over a month.  Poof, we had a play room again!!  I felt like I was on a roll!  So, I headed downstairs to try and find something else that would make a noticeable difference in our house.  Ok, this part is a little embarrassing but here goes: the Christmas tree!  It was so dry it practically disintegrated when you got near it.  It was just one of those things that go forgotten about over there in the corner.  We got so used to looking at it that I stopped nagging Will to take it out altogether.  Little did I know that super dead Christmas trees are REALLY lightweight!  So, I put on some gloves and took it out myself.  I even heaved it over the dumpster all on my own.  I was practically bursting with pride (and a little emberrassment for not trying that sooner!).

 The kids had buckets of energey and the day was so beautiful that we all ended up playing outside.  The morning had started off a bit windy and I had mentioned flying kites.  At the time we couldn't find all the pieces so we set them aside.  Now that we were outside though, the kids were asking me to fix the kites again.  So, being charged with Do-In-Myself energy, I rather craftily substituted sticks for the missing plastic pieces on their kites.  It worked!  Unfortunately, by that time the wind had totally died down.  That didn't stop the kids though!  I call it manual kite flying....who really needs the wind anyway when you have loads of energy to burn off?!