Today's Bounty

David took Mary and Maggie to a used book sale today held at one of the local colleges. Between 10am and 1pm today only, each child could fill a big shopping bag with books for $5. Matthew and Jonathan are pretty miserable because they are getting more teeth AND are sick, so I stayed home to care for them. Plus, we are having an Open House tomorrow, so I felt slightly overwhelmed trying to get things in order around here for that. 

David thought he would need to call to ask whether we already owned books at the sale. Inbetween vacuuming rooms, I checked the phone and was surprised that he didn't call.  Of course he didn't.  He had Mary along. Every time he saw a book that was intriguing, he just asked Mary who apparently has stored in her brain every single book we own!  Maggie was so delighted about getting books that she wanted every book that David picked up even without knowing what it was about.  We paid a total of $10 for a ginormous stack of books!

Here's Mary with the combined stack of books that we bought for $10.  Maggie was so tuckered out she fell asleep on the way home, so she was not available for the picture.

Maggie is enjoying her new Wind in the Willows books.

Mary is deeply engrossed in a book about George Washington from the Childhood of Famous Americans series.  She read the entire book this afternoon and has moved on to one about the Trojan War.