Last night was a long night for me. It was the last day of Bad Changeover and after spending all morning on homeschool orders for this year, and all afternoon with my wonderful art class, I was tired. We had done pretty well with all of the days without dad time, but mama was running out of steam. I had shown Cyan my plan to make a toad house last week... but thought the project long forgotten. Well, last night, as I was sitting here vegging out waiting for bedtime to come, I saw her from the corner of my eye run in to get scissors. And then glue. And then she came in with a handful of rocks. What was she doing???

I walk out and she is cutting up a large sour cream container we found on the ground at the blueberry patch. There were pieces of it everywhere. She looked up at me with this wonderfully awake expression (considering it was about 7:30pm at this point and I was ready for bed) and said "Hey mama! Just making a house for frogs."

Apparently, she and her friend Emma had talked that day about the frogs that live in Emma's yard. One had taken up residence in one of the little houses they made in History class (taught by Emma's mom, Heather) and Cyan was determined to earn her own frog for a garden friend.

How can you be tired with inspiration like that???

I heated up the glue gun and told her that we needed stuff to make it with. And this is what she brought me:

Logan came in with a handful of ground bark and a bunch more bigger rocks, and we had all of the fixings for a great toad house.