Fun With Books

Tonight we finished Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House In The Big Woods. We read one chapter every night so in theory we should have finished it in 13 days but in reality it took almost 3 weeks. We had a lot of fun along the way. One chapter was about the Sugar Snow at the end of the winter that gets a second flow of maple syrup out of the maple trees - so the next night we had whole wheat pancakes for dinner with pure maple syrup on them just like in the book. In another chapter the girls got to go to town for the very first time and they got some Necco Conversation Hearts so that's the kind that we bought for Valentines' Day. Another was about their Mom making cheese so we talked about that with the Cheese Guy at the Farmers Market. It ends up that they've read the Little House series to all of their kids and are actually on their second collection of the books, having worn out the first collection. They are currently reading Little Town On The Prairie to/with their 9(?) year old son. I'm looking forward to the fun things we can do with the other books, and so is Giselle.