My daughter is super excited about the idea of a National Composting Day. She has wanted to start a composting space for a while now and since we eat a lot but still waste too much of our vegetables, we are perfect for it! Below are some books that you can get from Overdrive or that you can ask for on curbside pickup.

Starting next Monday we'll be doing live storytime on Zoom. If you are interested in joining us Mondays at storytime for all ages, register here! Should be a lot of fun, but we need you to make it that way! We are also doing a live storytime for babies on Wednesdays, so if you're interested in that, register here!

But I should definitely pick my ukulele up today!

Hot ukulele? WOW! I'm cool with that. :)
Have another instrument you are interested in? Check out my "musical instruments" search. That has some basic books to get you started and then .... now that we have curbside hours you can also ask for a physical book! How incredibly happy that makes me.
Curious about certain musical instruments? Check out this kids book list of descriptions and learning more about different musical instruments.

Today is a perfect day if you have strawberries to pick! Time to make a strawberry shortcake... Even better reason to celebrate?
We have .... curbside pickup!

It was absolute mayhem today! That means you love us! We really appreciate how much you need us to be around!
We're also working on our virtual programs for June, July and August. Any ideas?

I'm sure I have a few dishes in my sink, but somehow what I have more of is my kids stuff all over the house. Since this started I thought, oh I will have time to make my house look like a masterpiece, like something you see in magazines. However, as soon as an inch of the house looks lovely, the rest of the house looks like a tornado happened.

How about the rest of you? Feeling that way too? What do you do to combat your children's magnificent ways of destroying any sense of cleanliness that you may have?

What do you use for chores and getting the kids to actually do them?
This article from Fatherly has some interesting chore apps. Do you use apps, calendars, paper charts, or do your kids have everything dedicated to memory?

With irresistible humor and refreshing insights, Kay candidly details the ups and downs of equipping her kids for such tasks as making beds, refinishing a deck chair, and working together. The changes that take place in her household will inspire you to launch your own campaign to dislodge your kids from the center of their universe.

I did a search on "cleaning house" on Overdrive and there are actually quite a few books we own. Unfortunately, I need to not read the books, just actually pull up my big girl pants and get going.

I hope she gives me some life skills to help me teach me kids to get off their butts and help keep my house from exploding. Somehow I think my kids need one of those reality show gurus to help us, but hopefully this will be a start of a new life. :)

Don't honestly know how to celebrate it ... However you could play leap frog with your siblings. :)
Or you could read some really great books that you can find on Overdrive!

She made me scrambled eggs with salsa (in the microwave) and a "griddle cake" ... don't know if that's an actual word, but Leila got a mini electric grill and made me a pancake in it. After we cuddled a bit. :)
Then she had to make me lunch, so she made me a english muffin grilled cheese in (you guessed it) the mini grill.
After lunch we went for a lovely bike ride where I tried to run and keep up. It certainly burned off some of the food calories! They were biking fast!
Then later in the afternoon we video called my Mom and my sisters so we could all virtually hug. It was sad, but lovely. I can't wait to hug them all in reality again.
Finally we ended the day with a surprise dinner from Ferrari's! YUM! I love their fish tacos and fries! :)
It was a great day all things considered. I hope you all had a lovely day too. <3

drag him outside and even then he's likely to run back inside as fast as possible. Do you have any idea how to get him out there and reasonably happy? Or am I trying to do the impossible? For school he's supposed to get outside and exercise 30 minutes everyday. That has not happened. :( Do you have any handy tips as to how this is possible? Love to hear your ideas! Put them in the comments.

Think big, but not too big because our Friends group is extremely supportive, but we don't have THAT much. :) Anyways, let us know what you think in the comments below!

You get to see it first! Our crazy 3d printer making a team of Eewoks to fight the Empire!
Like what you see? We've been celebrating all day so check out our Youtube May the Fourth Be With You playlist here!
Any ideas of future fun holidays we need to celebrate? Please let us know! We're all ears. :)