italics means I've read it RUNNING TOTAL: 19 of 76

Early Readers

• Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa: Spring Babies
• Fly Guy Meets Fly Girl
• National Geographic Readers: Ants
• The Babysitters (Cork and Fuzz)
• We Are in a Book! (An Elephant and Piggie Book)

Chapter Books

• Anna Hibiscus
• Frankie Pickle and the Pine Run 3000
• Home on the Range (Down Girl and Sit)
• Princess Posey and the First Grade Parade
• Zapato Power: Freddie Ramos Takes Off

Middle-grade SFF

• The Call
• The Dead Boys
• Dragonbreath: Attack of the Ninja Frogs

• http://larryavisbrown.homestead.com/file...

• ✔ Sweet Betsy from Pike
• ✔ Lyke Wake Dirge
• ✔ Lewis Bridal Song
• That Night in Bethlehem
• ✔ The Quaker's Wife
• The Bonny Bonny Broom

and for warming up, Johnny Get Your Hair Cut and Drunken Sailor

6/6 added two new tunes

• ✔ Star of the County Down lyrics music
• ✔ The Dawning of the Day lyrics music

6/7

• ✔ Tim Finnegan's Wake
• On the Road to Boston

• pennywhistle practice, and progress!
• park day with all the homeschoolers
• powdered donuts
• good photos
• talked to mom & dad
• read quite a bit
• sam s's french toast recipe

Inspired by Mouse's lists of things she liked today. I'd been keeping something similar in my paper notebook, but this might be a better place (baby keeps running off with my pen).

• Huck so cute with his boyish haircut
• Rose's company in the car during Bean's piano lesson
• The Broom of Cowdenknowes--listening to it, singing it, hearing Beanie sing it, working it out on the pennywhistle
• "I don't like a plum spot"
• Bean & Rose so excited about reading Twelfth Night together
• Jane quietly reading Twelfth Night on her own--"It sounded like fun"
• Beanie: "Mom, I fear you have hooked me on Shakespeare!"
• salt water taffy sent by Jay
• got Stevie's glasses fixed
• pleasant workout at the Y, and the little...

• Gutenberg School for Scribes
• Wynn the Wayward (breathtaking work!)
• SCA Illumination pool at Flickr

HISTORICAL FICTION AND FANTASY

• Son of Charlemagne by Barbara Willard (middle grade novel; historical fiction)
• Black Horses for the King by Anne McCaffrey (YA novel; Arthurian legend--how "Lord Artos" got horses strong enough to carry knights in full regalia)
• Otto of the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle
• What Happened in Hamelin by Gloria Skurzynski (middle-grade novel; Pied Piper)
• The Minstrel in the Tower by Gloria Skurzynski (chapter book; brother & sister on perilous quest)
• The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli (middle grade novel; knighthood, woodcarving; battle)
• The Great and Terrible Quest by Margaret Lovett
• The Apple and the Arrow by Mary & Conrad Buff (William Tell)
• Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray
• Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
• Knight's Castle by Edward Eager (set in 20th century, but the children wind up inside the Ivanhoe story, sort of)

• Arts & Crafts movement, Wm Morris
• Oscar Wilde court cases
• Victoria & Albert Museum
• fashion/Rational Dress movement/Liberty robes
• Gloucester Candlestick
• Palissy
• Prometheus Vase (Minton)
• Sevres
• Martin Brothers pottery
• Hoffmann / Der Sandmann

Mostly I want to finish these books I've already started, some as long as a year ago. (Eek.)

• ✔ The Whisper of Glocken
• River in the Desert (my current nonfiction)
• Crow Planet (my other current nonfiction!)
• Black Horses for the King (a Jane request)
• Graceling
• The Thirteenth Tale
• The Elegance of the Hedgehog
• Great Books (Denby) (I was halfway through and just plain forgot to finish, but it was great)
• Caw of the Wild
• Snow Crash
• Battle Royale
• The Scent of Water
• The Love Letters (L'Engle)

Library holds

• Keeper, Kathi Appelt (Fuse #8 review)
• The Underneath, ditto
• Cosmic, Frank Cottrell Boyce (Semicolon)
• Under Heaven, Guy Gavriel Kay (Chasing Ray)
• Magic Under Glass, Jaclyn Dolamore
• The Children's Book, Byatt

• Rose's haircut and her impish eyes all lit up
• Lyke Wake Dirge on pennywhistle (just about have it down)
• Huck asleep in the stroller clutching a car in each chubby fist
• dirty rice for Scott's dinner
• quick phone chat with Eileen S.
• wild Google spree hunting up Magic Wavers history for Rachel's Emma
• a 92-point word in Lexulous

• Roger the Herald's Notes on Blazonry
• design your own coat of arms
• SCA heraldry primer

• playing roll the ball down the slide with Rilla & Huck
• reading nursery rhymes with Rilla (again)
• sweet Stevie-boy smile
• morning walk with Scott, crows mobbing hawk
• reading about Dickens to girls (& Scott listening in)
• nice long talk with girls in the morning, history of the Mass
• planting sunflower seeds with the littles

CYBILs shortlisters:

• Yummy: the Last Days of a Southside Shorty
• The Call
• Fly Guy Meets Fly Girl
• We Are in a Book
• Guardian of the Dead (also Morris)

Others:

• One Crazy Summer
• Crank
• The Doomsday Book
• To Say Nothing of the Dog
• Hold Me Closer Necromancer (Morris)
• Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
• Turtle in Paradise

• The Boneshaker (Kate Milford)
• The Magician (Lev Grossman)
• The Passage (Justin Cronin)

hmm, title trend?

• One Crazy Summer

• NOT Scott's knee, swollen the size of a grapefruit!
• but he went to the doctor, so that's good
• Jane happy about finishing her game
• making very good progress on several songs
• learning how to make a satisfying checkmark here
• finished The Whisper of Glocken, which was SO GOOD
• watching Scott & Rilla play
• Huck dancing
• discovering Scrivener
• the sound of The Bonny Bonny Broom
• rolling out pizza dough with Rilla and Stevie
• worked out at the Y

• met a deadline a whole day early (gotta be a first)
• fun training session at the Y
• the way the baby dove out of my arms to run into the Y playroom, and the way he dove back into my arms an hour later
• watching West Wing with Scott & Jane at night
• the nice surprise from Ellen
• Brigid on FB at last

• The Broom of Cowdenknowes lyrics
• Broom of Cowdenknowes youtube
• Lewis Bridal Song (Mairi's Wedding) lyrics
• Lewis Bridal Song youtube, Corries
• Lyke Wake Dirge lyrics
• Lyke Wake Dirge youtube
• Horo, My Nut Brown Maiden
• Tam Lin
• Another version of Tam Lin (Jolly Beggars)
• Skye Boat Song lyrics
• Skye Boat Song performed by The Corries ...
• Loch Tay Boat Song lyrics
• Loch Tay Boat Song performed by The Corr...

Chorus Step we gaily, on we go, Heel for heel and toe for toe. Arm in arm and row on row, All for Mairi's wedding. Over hillways, up and down, Myrtle green and bracken brown. Past the shielings, through the town, All for sake o' Mairi. Chorus Red her cheeks as rowans are, Bright her eye as any star. Fairest o' them all by far ...