Day to Day Fun

Well, we here at the Stewart house have made it through our first full week of summer vacation without mishap or incident and have managed to keep busy with normal everyday kind of doings. Nothing spectacular, mind you, just day to day stuff. Emily started the week of by spending two nights at my brother's house playing with her extremely beloved cousins.When she came home she decided that she needed to work on a project, one which she made up all by herself. She loves to wear an old t-shirt acquired from my husband to bed but absolutely insisted that plain white just wasn't cool enough. "May I color this shirt with markers," she asked with her eyes shining brightly. I figured there was no harm in it especially since she was keeping herself occupied.



After she was done, she propped it up against our bookshelves in the family room for all to see. Of course all only consisted of  my husband, myself, and our cat Max, but she was proud to share none-the-less. This little girl that we consider a gift from God never ceases to amaze me. As you can see from the picture, she decorated her shirt with things that are important to her: her love for my husband and I, the names of her classmates, the sun, and the cross of Jesus! She is basically a tender hearted soul, a trait which I hope she never outgrows.



She then finished her week out by signing up at the library for the summer reading program, spending the night at my mother-in-law's house, spending the evening with my mother while I grocery shopped in peace, and visiting garage sales with me. During our garage sale jaunt, she found a Webkinz bear for a quarter at one house and a Webkinz gorilla at another house where the older girl who was selling it gave it to her for free.



I started my summer by changing out the children's display case at the library. Since it is summer reading time again, I decided to go with the reading theme: Sale on in and dig up a good book. I also found some garage sale bargains: a pair of aqua colored jean shorts for Emily (her new favorite piece of clothing which will probably be on her bum every day she finds them clean and in her drawer) and a pair of blue jeans which I am going to cut off and make into shorts for her.



Like I mentioned before, nothing spectacular went on this week; but still a great week when you consider that it is the day to day things that comprise about 95% of our lives. So what day to day things do you and your children take pleasure in doing?



So ends another episode of Kids Korner with me, Children's Author Aileen Stewart. Join me next week for another exciting episode same krazy time, same krazy channel. And feel free to drop by my personal blog Aileen's Thoughts any day of the week for even more on reading, writing, and life in general.Lonely Hearts ~ a sweet Christian Romance
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