Posted in Charity & Community Good on Dec 16th, 2012 No Comments »
Our family, like many around the world, has spent a lot of time keeping up with the news about the shootings. It has led to many discussions, many tears and many hugs. I am holding a sleeping baby as I type this, listening to the president speak at the memorial for the victims and crying [...]
Posted in Charity & Community Good, Daddy, Daily log, Gardening, history, magical moments on May 29th, 2011 3 Comments »
Okay, I have to admit that Daryl’s volunteerism has led to some pretty cool opportunities. This is definitely one of them. Last year, Daryl joined our little town’s historic society and was nominated as Vice President. This year, he was automatically bumped up to president. When he asked who wanted to take charge of the [...]
Posted in Charity & Community Good, cool sites, games, math, science on Aug 23rd, 2010 No Comments »
Have you heard of Foldit? How does my game playing contribute to curing diseases? With all the things proteins do to keep our bodies functioning and healthy, they can be involved in disease in many different ways. The more we know about how certain proteins fold, the better new proteins we can design to combat [...]
Posted in Charity & Community Good, nature, science on May 11th, 2010 2 Comments »
Have you talked much with your kids about the oil spill? We have a little here but not too much. I really want to find a salon quick that donates hair (see this post if you don’t know what I’m talking about) and lose half my hair for sea life. Anybody know of a [...]
Posted in Anna, Charity & Community Good, Field trips & tours, In the news, Jack, Victoria, video on Apr 27th, 2010 3 Comments »
If you want to see my chickadees! Click here. Victoria (Tacy) was wearing a white dress with a big white bow in her hair. Anna (Tib) was in the long blue sailor-like dress with curly blondish brown hair just past her shoulders. Jack was also in one scene listening to the stories, wearing a red [...]
Posted in Anna, Charity & Community Good, Field trips & tours, Fun, pictures, Victoria on Apr 26th, 2010 5 Comments »
We headed to Maud Hart Lovelace’s birthday party celebration in Mankato yesterday and the girls dressed up as Tacy and Tib to help out. We had a lovely time but even better was the fact that a news crew was there and the kids were on the evening news! Here’s a few samples… The girls [...]
Posted in Charity & Community Good, cool sites, geography, math, vocabulary on Nov 4th, 2009 3 Comments »
Lately when the kids have been playing Webkinz I’ve asked them to do 50 questions in Quizzie’s Corner first, on various subjects. It’s an easy way to sneak in some math, science, language arts and other subjects. Tonight when Victoria came to say goodnight, she told me, “Hey Mom, you know how you have us [...]
Posted in Anna, Charity & Community Good, pictures, Victoria on Jul 27th, 2009 1 Comment »
The Betsy-Tacy Society had a conference last week and asked if the girls would be willing to run a lemonade stand for their attendees. The girls said yes, and happily donned some old fashioned outfits to play the part. I even joined in, looking very silly in a dress my mother made (for herself) years [...]
Posted in art, Charity & Community Good, Daily log, Fun, nature, PE, pictures on Jul 15th, 2009 2 Comments »
I’m still playing catch-up here, especially with Victoria STILL sick and Jack and Alex both sick with some sort of flu that caused pretty high fevers the past couple of days. Everybody but Anna is on forced rest, like it or not. Here’s a bit of what we were up to before the boys got [...]
Posted in Charity & Community Good on Jun 11th, 2009 No Comments »
Do you know Carol Decker’s story? To mark the one-year anniversary of this amazing woman’s life-changing ordeal, supporters are holding a silent auction starting on June 14. If you have items to donate or would like to bid to help raise money for the family’s medical costs, please check it out and spread the [...]
