Phil overheard the boys and I reading The Bronze Bow, a story set in Capernaum during Christ's ministry. The book does a beautiful job showing the conflicts between zealots, Romans, Christ-followers, Jews. Phil started it yesterday and then couldn't put it down, confessing this morning that he had been up until the wee hours.
He spent the day starting to put up a mezzanine in the barn. We have some extra materials from building, and so he designed some second story space, cleared away stuff, pounded the dirt, and set posts.
I have been trying to figure out the best schedule. I think I found today that if I get up and get the boys fed and started with their schoolwork, that is best. Then, when Caleb naps around midday, I work, and pick up with the boys again after Caleb wakes up.
My new homeopathy course arrived today. I finished a year of study through a school in England back in September, but I'm starting again at a school in the States. I felt like I had to do too much translating, both culturally and in thought patterns. I am not a British Buddhist dyslexic. I was at one point a female Boulderite, though, and the new school is based in Boulder. So if I don't have to translate everything I'm learning, I'll be happy. And, after a three month break, I am ready to start studying again.
We love that book too! It's been about a decade since I read it to my Olders...time to break it out for the Middlers...and maybe half that time again in the future for the Youngers! ;-)
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