We had a good day today, though we started late (surpise, surprise... D wasn't even awake until after 11 am.  Sigh.  I am so bad at bedtime).  We did our usual stuff, talked about God's promises to us (this month's theme in primary is about God's promises to us being in the scriptures -- D has to give a talk in primary about this on Sun, in fact...).  We read about Noah and the rainbow, and by then the kids were very bored.  (I'm making my kids be the annoying kids in Sunday school... I was reviewing the story of Noah and the Ark and said that Noah brought two of every animal on the ark, then corrected myself and said there were seven of some of the animals.  D vehemently disagreed with me, so I found the scripture and read it to him, and we talked about why we thought God told Noah to take seven of some of the animals, and only two of others.  He's going to be correcting the teacher next time that comes up.)  So I turned on the French -- today, when we got to MY limit (M was going crazy, again, and not happy that she couldn't eat the activity book), D didn't want us to turn it off.  We aren't practising it outside of the time when we listen to the audio cds, though, and I know we should.

After lunch, we had quiet minutes, and a friend visited with the boys.  I had a friend come over for our book club.  It was nice chatting with her.  I didn't actually read the book this month -- I read it about 1/2 year ago and couldn't manage to get it from the library again.  I didn't remember it well enough to write an essay on it, but the discussion we had helped. 

I really didn't feel like tackling any house work once M finally went down for her nap, and the boys were still occupied with their friend.  I took out some of my books and binders and tried to plan/start my history studies somewhat.  I ended up filling in a few dates in my history timeline notebook and starting a section (which I will move to my scripture study binder) for my Old Testament history studies.  I'm going in chronological order atm, so today I just wrote "Pre Mortal Life" at the top of the page and started finding and writing out scripture references.  I find that writing out scriptures I'm studying helps me slow down and digest them better.

Now my kitchen is a mess, I don't feel like cleaning it -- I had a sudden burst of kitchen energy but it was all used up on cooking.  I just want to open my books again, but they will get covered in peanut butter and jelly and pancake and hard boiled egg.  So instead I'm at the computer, with my view of the kitchen conveniently blocked.