We started late today.  I slept in until 9!  We did our usual reading, and instead of breaking for a snack, we broke for lunch.  D and I team read a book together -- we did a page each.  He really seemed to enjoy it.  We had quiet minutes, more reading, and then the boys headed outside.  Their friend came over to play once they were to cold to stay outside.  I spent the afternoon writing up lists and plans for the next week, looking up recipes, and printing up a couple of the Ambleside Online books.  I have decided that it is OK to give the kids their curriculum for Christmas!  I wouldn't have minded not having much for them, but my parents might be coming to visit between Christmas and New Years, and we will definately visit in January.  So they have just started their Christmas shopping and already have more for the boys than we planned on getting them all together.  Not that I want to make it a competition, I just didn't want the fun, frivolous, plasticy, noisy toys my parents are sure to buy be the whole focus.  I want to present the books as being just as special.