As of this morning Brendan had been fever free for 12 hours and had taken eight doses of his Antibiotic. He had a rather clammy night last night so I guess he really broke the thing.
It is so good to be free to come and go, to watch Lilly again and be able to plan a few outings.
I want to go up to Frostburg, maybe next week, but I wasn't sure how long this was all going to go on!
We went to my friend Christine's house this morning and checked out her Usborne book sale.
I ended up buying:
This book is actually three books in one. Physics, Chemistry, and Biology. It is so great at illustrating the complicated aspects of Science that I don't have the answers to. John was reading the section on Genetics today and it actually breaks it down into very understandable chunks.
Physics and Chem are broken down and illustrated so that I can show them a picture while I am explaining a concept. It's all internet linked so that I don't have to go looking for nebulous sites that may or may not teach the concept I am looking for.
This is another wonderful book. I am reading it myself. It is very much an Art Appreciation guide. It will be a great help this year as John and I go back into history and work forward. I want to tie Art into History as much as possible. The descriptions of the works and the explanations of the Artists methods and intentions are so interesting. John really enjoyed his Art book last year, and we are going to use a similar text, so this will be a great supplement to tie his Art and History texts together. I also plan to use my CDs of Music through History, European anyway, to add to the experience.
This is another great book that I got just for fun, The Complete Book of Chess.Paul and John love Chess and Paul has a distinct talent for it. He is going to study this book all summer and then go back to Port Angeles and have a great time playing with Grandpa Dick! A worthier opponent than his mom! I got a couple of other books, but they are for Lucy and Lilly so they will have to wait!
So that was the morning. I had Lilly with me, and she probably saved me a fortune, because I couldn't stay too long perusing the stacks.
We came home and Lilly and the boys had lunch, and then we got ready to go to the pool. I hadn't been up there for two weeks! The boys were finally feeling up to a swim.
I took Lilly and met Nina there.
Man does that little Lilly love to swim!! She is going to be a fish like her uncles.
She was just all about being in the water. We were there for a couple of hours, but I could tell Brendan was getting tired. He didn't complain, but John has been telling me that he is still feeling muscle fatigue when he does too much, so Brendan must be as well. He never complains, but he does get grumpy!
We came home and I worked on dinner. I am rather tired myself! I need to get my act together tomorrow though and start doing some planning and work on some projects around the house that need doing.
I will start pulling the school year together.
So I guess I'd better get to bed or I won't have the ambition to get going tomorrow!
I need this kind of exuberance! Life is so good!
