still flying through this series and still oddly enjoying it. this was one of the saddest books yet, they move and build ANOTHER house, and pa borrows money to buy the wood hoping to use the money from the wheat harvest to pay for it, but grasshoppers come to minnesota and literally cover the entire farm and eat every living plant. pa ends up having to walk 300 miles one way to go east for work and money to get through the winter. there was also a part where ma made laura give her doll away to the neighbor bc she was too old for it anyway, and then she ends up finding it frozen in a puddle. then comes christmas, after nellie made fun of laura for not having a fur shawl - their reverend surprises her by hanging one on the christmas tree for her (and a mitt) - take that nellie, just kidding... (not sure if i was just emotional but i almost cried when she got it). ma and pa talk a lot about the way that laura's eyes 'shine' and the way the author describes it just gives me all the feels. then the book finishes off with the massive blizzards, and pa sleeping outside for 3 nights bc he got lost trying to get home from town. never short of drama in plum creek.
one of my favorite moments in the whole entire book though, was when pa comes back in from checking out just how much damage and you see just how wise ma is
'pa came into the house long enough to eat supper while sam and david (horses) were eating theirs. Ma did not ask him what was happening to the wheat. She only smiled and said: 'don't worry, charles. we've always got along.'