First trip in a few weeks to the coffee/cocoa/cookie shop this morning, chocolate immediately covering all shirts, followed by a first trip to the Mt. Horeb library. Wow! Two hours later, after watching Calvin play on the train table, the lego table, and in the castle with the dragon (and tell a little girl very seriously that it's not nice to push) we were off back home, where, showing off for Kari down by the barn, he took a slip and a good skid on his bum and eventually flat on his back through the mud and came up laughing. So much for the shoes that just came out of the wash, much less the clothes. An hour long bath, squirt toys in the lawn, Penelope's first playtime in the over-full kitchen sink, some sewing with Calvin directing from my lap, another hour pouring over Around the World with Mouk (again! I need to start looking up some of the foreign language words I don't know for him), and everyone, including dogs, is asleep momentarily. I do absolutely love these long days wholly absorbed in them. I wish I weren't reminded that sharing that love might be so nice, making what's bright even brighter. (And yes, making what's really hard a little less hard sometimes.) Still, I'll take what I can get. Off to see if I can nap for a moment too.