One thing I did this week was...

Played Boxcar Children with Emma and the boys.

Here is the inside of the boxcar (actually a shed in our yard that's big enough for storage and play-the same shed that transforms to battlements when we play Narnia)

READY FOR THE TOUR?

Here is the kitchen/dining room table

(the kitchen)

(a bed)

The girls all put on kerchiefs,

and we drank milk and ate peanut butter and banana sandwiches. And, of course, no one, I repeat, NO ONE can play boxcar children without their faithful companion, man's best friend, yep, the dog. Just so it is on record, Sam volunteered to be Watch, the Alden's pet. "Watch" sniffs his bone- cleverly made from the head of a croquet mallet!