“You should try to ask 5 questions every day,” Rainer told Tias. “The world is big and cool and asking questions is something you should do.”
I didn’t expect a lot. After all, most of what we lob at Tias slips below the surface without so much as a ripple.
And yet the questions are coming.
“What makes [...]
Archive for March, 2008
Ask Questions
Posted in homeschooling, parenting on March 31, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Self-Reinforcing Behaviors
Posted in homeschooling on March 26, 2008 | 8 Comments »
An unreinforced behaviour – one with no consequences of any kind – will typically extinguish itself. This I learned from clicker training, the method we use with our dog (and which is used to get Shamu to do all those groovy things). Some behaviours, though, are self-reinforcing. The very act of doing [...]
9 am, 11 am
Posted in quotes on March 25, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush. ~Doug Larson
9 am vs 11 am (and by 7pm it was snowing again)
In the spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours. ~Mark Twain
O, wind, if [...]
Sa-weet!
Posted in handmade, sewing on March 24, 2008 | 13 Comments »
Woohoo! I’m going to have sleeves just past the elbows and they’ll have ties!
Crapadoodle! Totally mucked up the ties.
Sa-weet! Shirt is done and shirt is cute!
Party like it’s 99 BCE!
The colour in the second photo is the most accurate. It’s a cotton/linen blend that I found in the bargain section for $2 a [...]
Easter
Posted in Project 365, handmade, parenting on March 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
(When did everyone get so grownup?)
Chocolate nests from Angry Chicken. Leaf print eggs from Family Fun. Paska from traditional Mennonite recipe.
Handmade Clothes
Posted in handmade, sewing on March 20, 2008 | 13 Comments »
Remember the Wardrobe Crisis? I’m slowly solving it, carefully buying some items and making others. Happily, I’d already bought a stash of material for skirts, and I have a few summer yarns for warm-weather tops in my yarn stash.
It’s still hard, though. I need to hit the style right so that I’m [...]
Bright and Glorious Colour
Posted in Project 365, handmade, quotes on March 19, 2008 | 6 Comments »
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” Albert Camus
From the Family Fun magazine project. Here’s a link to online instructions: leaf print eggs.
The Day
Posted in art journal, homeschooling, parenting on March 18, 2008 | 6 Comments »
With chocolate nests to build and eggs to dye and the sun in the sky, the day should have been a pleasant, even blissful, weaving between work and play. The possibilities were excellent and we accelerated onto the on-ramp of the day.
Then came the mitigating factors. Theirs, mine, ours. Mysterious, unknowable, unpredictable [...]
Kitchen Haiku
Posted in haiku Monday on March 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
a tidy kitchen
disappears so damn quickly
quixotic nature
The recycling pile waiting transfer to the recycling bins in the front room…my personal kitchen nemesis. Every day I toss things into it. Every day I balefully watch it sit there. I alternate between believing that the universe is simply trying to convince me of my pivotal importance and [...]
Math Never Promised You a Rose Garden…
Posted in homeschooling on March 14, 2008 | 11 Comments »
Math has been hard for Sandra these past few days as she crashes headlong into the hard, cold fact that multi-stage questions require you to pay attention and check your answers. A mistake in one step can mean that every following step is correct in method yet still wrong. She’s not a girl who likes [...]
