Monday Pep Talk No. 38
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3 FUN THINGS TO DO THIS WEEK
The summer Olympics start on Friday! Here are some fun ideas for Olympics projects you can work on together while watching the events.
Use your science skills to make your own ice cream for Ice Cream Sandwich Day (Tuesday).
Make a a batch of fizzing sidewalk chalk and decorate your driveway.
3 IDEAS FOR THIS WEEK’S DINNERS
Ready in the time it takes to cook spaghetti: spaghetti with tomatoes, bacon, and eggs
This vegetarian take on the classic gyro is a great base for whatever summer veggies you have lying around.
Miso corn soup may just be my new favorite summer soup.
ONE GREAT READALOUD
Celebrate Yorkshire Day (Monday) by reading the book that puts your Yorkshire accent skills to the test: Frances Hodgson Burnett’s classic The Secret Garden.
ONE THOUGHT TO PONDER
“When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.”
