Hot Chocolate Smile

We spent the morning moving wood from outside to the basement so that we would have a goodly supply for the next month or two (depending on the outside temperatures). After lunch all the kids enjoyed hot chocolate for their hard work. Most of them ended up adding other sweet stuff but I just enjoyed the cocoa. Harmonie really enjoyed it and made the biggest mustache. Just thought I'd record that we are still using the wood furnace to heat our home, so that means we are still hauling wood from the front yard to the basement (and Kevin should be cutting down trees and gathering wood but he's really busy as of late). The kids fight, argue, and complain throughout the work. I try to change the subject with word/mind games or singing songs. Sometimes it works and other times they just want to be angry. But at the end of the day most of them write in their journals that they enjoyed hauling wood. Maybe that's because it's the only thing they can think of for the day but at least we have it on record that it brought them joy to work with their family (in not so many words).