A Day to Cherish

For Christmas, Liam got the box set of Peter and the Wolf, illustrated by Bono and performed on disk by Gavin Friday. Last night we sat in bed, reading and listening, occasionally chatting, finally laying back. "The grandfather walks with a cane," Liam told me. "You can hear it in the music."

Later, he asked me to write out words on paper. I wrote tent, camp, stop, pig, bag. He read each word. It was Martin Luther King day. In the morning we marched through town. After that

we watched the I Have a Dream speech on youtube, and by the end of the day, my youngest child was reading.