The Eight of Us

How we begin our day.

Grace gets out her "schoolwork" and her box of pencils along with the rest of the kids. Finds a comfy seat and sighs heavily "I don't know to do."

I have to give her directions but I have to make it sound like I'm talking to one of the bigger kids. I just make something up like "You have to draw a line to connect the matching pictures."

"Oh, I know what do now."

Often, she will tell me "You take mine picture of..." whatever it is she's doing. She's not camera shy. But this day, I took only two pics and she got irritated with me. "Mommy, you leave mine 'lone."
I don't know what I was thinking, the poor girl's just trying to get some work done and I'm disturbing her with a photo shoot.