Last Day of Summer

We had a pow-wow. The kids like those. We make indian noises and everyone meets in the same room on the floor (well, I sit in a chair). The topic was what do for our last day of summer. Everyone suggested ideas and they got written on our list no matter how crazy or impossible - 16 ideas. Then we went through the list and eliminated the ones that were not going to work and we discussed which ones to keep on the list and why. We voted on the remaining 8, each kid got 3 votes and I could override all votes if I chose (I rarely do that -- I just don't call a pow-wow if I need something to happen in a certain way). That narrowed the list down to our top 5. We revoted and each kid got to vote for 2. The kids chose to have friends come over for the day. We voted on who. We called them, but they just had their 6th baby and the mom was on bedrest. So, I read to them and we cuddled the rest of the evening until we could try more friends tomorrow. By the end of the evening, all the kids revoted and asked if we could have a fun day at home with just us. This is what we chose to do with our last day of summer....

We cleaned our rooms...(mostly).




We read to the kids and let the kids read to us who needed to finish the library's summer reading program that ends today.








We made music.









We baked cookies and a cake, well Dd#2 baked it -- Ds#4 just made a mess.

We visited the midwife for a prenatal appointment (but all the kids know that this was really a play-date with the midwife's kids.)

We turned in our sheets at Barnes & Noble for their reading program.

We turned in our summer reading program sheets and books at the library -- and got more books!