My final cover!  My editor sent it to me last week and I thought I would share.  It is being printed right now and I cannot wait to see it as a book!  Woohoo!  I am so excited **insert me doing a happy dance**.  You can pre-order it on amazon.com and a few other place I believe but it will officially be available in July.  There will be copies available at the GASC when I am there so save some of those scrapping pennies and you can pick up a copy.

So what did you do this weekend?  I spent a good part of it doing yard work.  Clearing up leaves from the fall and clearing out the gardens.  I am certainly feeling the aches of it today!  LOL.  It is not nearly complete and I spent the morning on it again today but it is totally satifying.  Though the work is hard it is nice to see the yards looking tidy and it is wonderful to uncover tiny plants that have been growing under the winter mulch in the gardens.  It definitely feels like spring and there is no going back to winter now.  THAT makes me very happy!

OH and a new, especially funny "funny" from Magnus.  We went to the museum on Friday and for the first time went to the Egyptian section the museum.  Who knew we would spend the entire time there trying to explain the difference between a "mummy" and a "mommy"!! Very difficult for a three, almost four year old to understand!  

We explained mummification (there were some drawings on a chart) and tried to get him to hear the difference between the two words to no avail! 

I then told him this particular mummy was a boy and he just kept asking how did he turn into a girl after he died, lol.  Austin and I laughed and laughed over it.  And he still does not get it but it is just too much for him to understand right now.

My husband also got a good laugh at me while there too.  I had a slightly embarassing moment in the Roman statue gallery.  Magnus was asking questions about, ahem, the body parts on the statues and while I am not one to fudge things with my kids, there were others in the gallery and there was a slight echo in the place.  So in an effort to be discrete I tried to answer Magnus' questions honestly but my effort to censor myself because of the others around caused me to be slightly flustered and I ended up "shouting" out a male body part's name. (Not the proper name either which shows how flustered I was - a slang name!) I disagree with the shouting part but my husband insists that I shouted it!  Plus the echo...you can imagine the embarassment now right? 

Now Austin loves to walk past me when no one is around and echo the word at me.  I have to admit now that moment is over it makes me laugh cause it is something out of a book or a movie but at the time I am pretty sure my face was bright red! 

So the moral of the story for me - just go with what I always do.  Be honest with the kids.  Body parts are not something to be embarrassed about and are not something that I am normally embarrassed about.  I talk freely with my kids and I need not censor myself because of the people around me.  My trying to censor probably made more people uncomfortable than if I hadn't! 

I am pretty sure they went home and told their families about the woman in the Roman statue gallery who shouted out the word...

(I also wish I had take a discrete photo of the statue in question just so I could make a scrapbook page with this story!)