Here's the child.The one in the middle--Tori.
Here's the book.
I wanted to read the book today but couldn't find it. Why you ask? It was stolen from me by yet another child (the one on the left who wouldn't open her eyes). This one who is nearly as tall as I am--with in 1 or 2 inches. Good thing I like her. I would have had to hurt her otherwise. Stealing a book from me? She tried to hide it when I snuck up stairs during her lunch to see if she had it. But I'm good. & I stole it back. & now I am going to hide it from her when I'm not reading it.
My latest Random Ed project (Random Ed is my name for the things that my kids probably wouldn't be learning at school but are just too fun or interesting not to spend some time on) is Political Protest Songs. Having a conversation with my girls (Nat & Tori) on the way home from Girl Scouts & we were listening to my latest mixCD. & we were talking about Handlebars by the Flobots.
so my baby girls & I decided that we want me to make them a mixCD of my favorite political protest songs. The first ones I've come up with (not done yet though) are:
Handlebars Flobots
Fortunate Son CCR
This Land is Your Land Woodie Guthrie
99 Luftballoons Nena
Born in the USA Bruce Springsteen
Sunday Bloody Sunday US
War Edwin Starr
Blowing in the Wind Bob Dylan
Alice's Restaurant Masacree Arlo Guthrie
Ohio Crosby Stills Nash & Young
Imagine John Lennon
War Pigs Black Sabbath
All She Wants to Do is Dance Don Henley
Turn, Turn, Turn The Byrds
Killing in the Name of Rage Against the Machine
The last one is a bit explicit for 13 year old girls so I think I'm omitting it for now. Still trying to decide what else I want to add in.
The next mixCD will be random songs:
Fish Heads Barnes & Barnes
Shiny Happy People R.E.M.
Birdhouse in Your Soul They Might be Giants
Any suggests? For either list? I'm almost having as much fun looking for songs for them as I did talking about them with my girls.
I am going away with them this weekend. It was supposed to be a mother/daughter weekend but Traci needs to stay home to meet a forgotten commitment. So I am taking the girls to the Olympic National Forest's Quinault Lodge http://www.visitlakequinault.com/ to do a Volunteer Vacation http://www.visitlakequinault.com/specials/index.cfm . We're going to listen to some lectures (global warming, endangered species, that sort of thing) & then we're going to clear trails of flood damage from the December storms. How fun is that? Actual--I'm really excited about it other than the fact that Traci can't go.
