I can't quite get the hang of Mondays.  Dishes and other housework has piled up from Sunday.  I always want to spend about an hour on Sun organizing school stuff for the week, but it never happens.  Dh is home on Mondays, so that throws a wrench in our works.  I think I managed to sit down and read a few pages of Little House on Rocky Ridge to the kids, and that was our schoolish stuff for the day.

The kids have been playing a few coin and dice games lately.  D has taken to playing the money game solitaire, where he uses both dice and sees how quickly he can get to $1 (your roll = how many pennies you get).  He now knows how to count by fives and by tens.  We started playing hull gull (it is described in Little House on Rocky Ridge).  It is for two players.  You both have 5 pennies; the first player puts a secret amount in his hand and the other guesses.  The guesser has to give the first player however many pennies his guess was off by.  So if I am hiding 2 pennies in my hand and you guess 4, you give me two pennies.  If you guess right, you get all the pennies in my hand.  Dh also taught D another penny game.  He placed 25 pennies on the table in rows.  You take turns taking pennies -- 3, 2, or 1.  The object is to make the other player take the last penny.

Sunday was the start of the 3000 page/8 week challenge, but I forgot about it until Monday.  I manged to get on track, though.  I have to read about 55 pages a day to keep up.  My scripture study is 4 pages a day (to get through the Old Testament this year) and I decided to start reading Coppermine Journey by Farley Mowat on Monday.  It is fairly short, about 3 days' worth of reading, and I have Sense and Sensibility on hold at the library, so I wanted a short read.  Such an interesting book.  Mowat went through Samuel Hearn's journals chronicling his search for the Coppermine River in northwestern Canada (I think it is now Nunavut).  Unfortunately I didn't put aside a paper and pen for note taking when I started reading it, and now I have a handful of dog-eared pages that I have to go back to and take notes on.  : P