Ahhhhhh....

"aaaahhhhhhhh" just accurately describes how I feel about this evening.  So many things just felt good.  Here's why:
1. ice cream.  good stuff.
2. Erika voluntarily went to bed and actually stayed in it, and went to sleep a half hour before "bed time" (I use quotation marks because nobody else even went to bed at bed time tonight, it was almost an hour and half later that they were all down... so a half hour before is pretty amazing!)  She's our toughest competitor when it comes to bedtime stalling.  She was tired.  That is a good thing at night.
3. Luke decided he was going to do a book report!  They are optional and I guess he's seen a few kids do them at school, so he wanted to do one!!  This kid does not love reading, and only reads scriptures with us after a lot of begging and pleading. So this was pretty monumental!  He read the whole book, Robot Zot, and then helped me fill out the Book Report worksheet to describe what happened in the book!   It was amazing!  I'm still in awe.  He loved it even.  Took lots of time to draw his picture on the back.  Oh, I'm just so excited for him!  I hope he loves doing it and does a whole bunch more!
4. Bradley's prayer.  He blessed the girls to feel good about their science fair projects and that they would be "proud of their work".  What a cool little brother and how insightful of him to know that they might need a prayer for that.  He really is impressing me a lot lately!  All day in fact.  He helped the younger boys, help him, clean their room.  He was doing Simon Says to get them to do it and they were all having so much fun!  I loved it!  He did too :) he said, "I hardly had to do anything!"  What a cool kid.
5. Noah was happy.
6. Charity was getting all anxious and excited for her Maturation program tomorrow, I can't wait!!
7. Interviews with the kids went so well.  We were interviewing them to find out what jobs they want this month, but I loved being able to sit and talk with them just the three of us!  They are always so happy with the attention and I feel like it's very productive and worthwhile.  I enjoy it immensely!  Hopefully jobs can go even better this month.  They really did well last month overall.  We'll see.

I loved this evening.  And now it's time to go to bed :).