book 5

Here we are on a gorgeous Sunday afternoon – the sun is shining, the windows are open (although I am cuddled up under a fuzzy blanket) and the kids ARE BOTH ASLEEP.  *sigh*

Yesterday I finished The Scarlet Contessa: A Novel Of The Italian Renaissance, by Jeanne Kalogridis.  It was all right, and if you like Philippa Gregory’s English historical novels (such as The Other Boleyn Girl), you would like this one, too.  It’s the mostly true story of Caterina Sforza.  I have to confess to skimming rapidly through some of the more boring parts.  So, if you read it and are bored to death, don’t say I didn’t warn you.

I was able to finish this book yesterday because I was able to laze about most of the day.  Timon got up and made pancakes with Maria for us all, and she was so cute as she “helped.”  After a while Timon said that she decided to cut out the middleman (the pancake) and just eat the blueberries.  When he flipped them she would exclaim “Wow!  Awesome!”  In the afternoon Timon and Henry played the LEGO Star Wars video game.  During one section, Henry paused the game during one rough firefight with the stormtroopers and told Timon “WE HAVE TO KILL THE BAD GUYS, DAD!” in an extremely serious tone.  Well, then.