...to read to the kids

...it 'settles' each of us down.

Several weeks ago a friend of mine posted this on Facebook:

Exactly.

Yup.

How?  Whhhhyyyy??!!?  

Sometimes the demise is slow.  Sometimes its fast.  And then BAM, I am Cruella.

Tonight was BAM.

Long day of work for me.  A.n.o.t.h.e.r. evening of being snowed in.  All extra-curricular activities canceled.  This translates to:  The only way the children get out their pent-up-energy is to torture/torment/chase each other....while-I-am-on-the-phone.

So what did I do?

I sent them to bed.

But I am a sucker for, "Did we lose our story too?"  (Insert photo of pouty-faces with batting eyelashes).

Will and I have started to read one of my favorite series from my childhood:

I love that he is hearing so many 'old-fashioned' words and concepts like: jalopy, chum, fellow and the fact that $25 was a lot of money or that when a person answered a telephone they didn't automatically know who was calling.  This piece of information was baffling to him.