*having a day to homeschool Madelyn(working on rhyming, painting, writing, a sticker story, creating new animals at switchzoo)
*watching Aubrey paint (she gets so excited)
*singing to Madelyn at bedtime
*Jim's homemade pumpkin pancakes
*seeing Jim's mustang travel down the wet road in the misty dark toward home
*thinking about teaching fourth grade
*Madelyn asking me if I will be a librarian when I don't have any kids to take care of anymore
*listening to Felicity, an American Girl story (I think I like them more than my kids)
*thinking about the warm Sahuarita sun (those thoughts will have to get me through a lot of gray gloomy days this winter)
*reading in PW about a little bookstore that is opening and daydreaming about opening my own children's bookstore (what would I call it?)
*seeing how grown up Gracie can be sometimes