Posted in Daily log, Fun, Victoria, art, cool sites, math, pictures, reading on Mar 19th, 2010 5 Comments »
Here’s a bit of what we’ve been up to…
1. We celebrated Pi Day with crafts, activities and foods. I know it’s been a few days but I never shared the pictures so I wanted to put some up.
2. We started logging our books for the 100 books a month challenge. Here’s page [...]
Posted in Victoria, art, math, nature on Mar 18th, 2010 2 Comments »
Victoria just came and announced that pi was used to figure out the width of an enormous tree, which I pointed out showed that there really was a good use for math sometimes. She was talking about this article, which is about the oldest trees in the world. Some of the photos are [...]
Posted in Alex, Anna, Book Recommendations, Daily log, Fun, Jack, Victoria, art, math, pictures on Mar 6th, 2010 9 Comments »
We’ve done some fun things the past few days. Here’s a bit of it!
1. We celebrated Dr. Seuss’s birthday with Seuss lesson plans, a silly indoor dress-up parade, a reader’s theater Seuss script, books, funny clothes and more. I even made a chocolate cake (this time made better despite the absence of dairy or wheat [...]
Posted in Victoria, art on Mar 4th, 2010 8 Comments »
I commissioned Victoria to make some new graphics for my Magical Childhood website. I asked for toadstools and bright colors. Here’s what she gave me. Aren’t they adorable?!!!!
And the banner!
They make me smile!
Posted in Anna, Jack, Victoria on Jan 2nd, 2010 9 Comments »
I swiped this idea from Educating Risa because it seemed like such a neat one. She says she asks the kids these questions each year and it’s a fun way to see how they change. Here’s our big kids’ answers….
Jack
Favorites:
Cereal – Mallow Oats
vegetable – Carrots
drink – Pop
toy – Gorilla Mountain
TV Show – Sponge Bob
game – [...]
Posted in Anna, Book Recommendations, Daddy, Daily log, Jack, Victoria, cooking/home ec, writing on Dec 2nd, 2009 1 Comment »
It’s the wee hours and I have a sleeping toddler in my arms. I am an idiot to be blogging, and if Daryl wakes up he’ll growl something to that extent. But you know how I am!
So here’s 5 random things I’ll post and then I really will go to bed….
1. Nonie, I’ll [...]
Posted in Funnies, Victoria, art on Oct 14th, 2009 5 Comments »
I love this!
Posted in Victoria, art on Aug 11th, 2009 3 Comments »
Victoria loves art and has been doing it since she was old enough to finger paint. She’s at a stage where she is very critical of her art and thinks it’s terrible but we think it’s fabulous.
I just wanted to share a few of the sketches she’s done in the last few days.
This is a [...]
We finally got the kids in to the doctor today, after deciding that the wait-it-out approach with lots of rest, healthy food, fluids and care wasn’t cutting it.
The verdict:
Alex– sinus infection
Anna– swimmer’s ear, upper respiratory infection
Victoria– double ear infection, sinus infection
I’ve been sick too, but I’m too cheap (I mean frugal!) to get an appointment [...]
Posted in Anna, Charity & Community Good, Victoria, pictures 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 and [...]
