I don’t know how Elsie kept her mouth from going dry

Lily dipped both hands in the barbecue drain pot, leaving them covered in black, tar-like grease that marked everything and person she touched and took a good deal of soap to wash off,
Elsie ate a large bowl strawberry shredded wheat without the help of milk,
Timmy asked if he could learn to play piano even though he's still learning to read and worked on learning the names of the 7 notes and the names of his fingers,
Abby finished "The Magician's Nephew" and "The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe" and started reading "The Horse and His Boy,"
Kate had a 4-hour achievement day party,
Gina, managed to recreate an amazing soup that we had at Souper Salad (adobe chicken), and
I received the first two submissions to There and Then Magazine.