Potatoland

Today we visited Potatoland, or at least saw it on television for the first time.  We picked up season one of a cartoon series simply called "Mickey Mouse" from the library, just one of a few new items for Madison to check out on the way down to Florida last week.  It turns out that these cartoon shorts are hilarious.  I mean, this one here, "Potatoland" is laugh-out-loud funny, just in terms of animation alone. It may not be everyone's cup of tea, but the three of us sat on the couch and just laughed quite a bit.

Today was a work day, one where we got a lot of our newest series done - we're pretty much all wrapped-up with the messages for "The Quest."  The devotional is pretty much done as well, so we're feeling pretty good at this point about that portion.  The challenge will be the dramas, as many of the actors are doing that summer break thing.

We had a meeting about our messages, this one in the car on the way to the house - and then back to church.  The purpose of going home was to pick up Madison and Mommy.  Lance and Josh sat in the house for a bit, and we discussed all the goings-ons for the next few months, and feel pretty good about the direction we're taking.

Madison made it to church tonight, of course.  It was a Wednesday night in the summer, so we don't have to worry about getting up early for school tomorrow.

As for Madison, she's settled into a good pattern at home this week, with piano, drawing, reading, and homework online.  She's doing math problems using friendly numbers, and doing a bit of guided reading and questions.

We did finish another cat puzzle today.  We don't have cats, but we have cat puzzles.  These come from the library, which is actually a vast resource for cat puzzles.  If you are at your wit's end looking for cat puzzles, you should definitely try out Hampton Park Library.  Cats puzzles are just right for Madison and Mommy - the two of them went to work over the puzzle table, looking down and studying, and carefully putting things in place as if they were surgeons over a patient's table.  It did not take long to complete this 300-piece puzzle.  These two were quite focused.

So that's how a standard summer day goes, or at least one on a Wednesday.  No time for pools or journeys, but Madison still did plenty today, plus had time for LEGO Batman 3 and some more reading from the Weird School.  The highlight though, would have to be our visit to Potatoland!