From one orphan to another.

It was not a good start to the day, a disagreement over a marble run escalated somewhat, the most obvious result of which was a black eye for K, having been hit in the face by something that M threw at her. 

The bruise has spread more under her eye since this photo!

After some time to calm down, during which I gave K her first lesson in cribbage, which she took to well, harmony was restored.  K & M decided that there was a good thing about having had a fight, as now they look much more like they've been in a battle for when they are being Tonks and Mad-Eye Moody when playing Harry Potter!

Harry Potter will be an on-going obsession for some time, that much is clear, and since I refused to start reading the whole series from the beginning, both K & M have started reading the books to themselves.  They were keen for me to read to them anyway, even if it wasn't Harry Potter, so today I started on a book that does have one very evident similarity, the eponymous hero/heroine being a orphan, but in pretty much every other aspect is very different.  It's one of my all time favourite books, that I have been looking forward to sharing with K & M.  It's Anne of Green Gables and I'm happy to say that so far they are loving it.  It's already provided some interesting topics for discussion, gender roles about a century ago for example, and it's great to see that both girls have already picked up on a couple of literary allusions (Shakespeare and Alice in Wonderland).  I'm not sure if we'll carry on with the whole of the series this time, as I think the subsequent books are better suited to an older audience than a 9 and nearly 8 year old, but we'll see.