If you haven’t already fallen in love with Meerkat Mail, we’d like you to consider racing to your local store and buying it. If the ‘brown paper packages tied up with string’ cover doesn’t win you over, the great illustrations and the wonderful storytelling will. The postcards Sunny sends home, however, will push you over [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Book to read
Posted in homeschooling on April 29, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Marvy!
Posted in handmade, parenting on April 28, 2008 | 3 Comments »
What a project! Inpsired by SouleMama.
Tias made the green. Sandra made the red. Looking for a simple handmade gift that the kids can make but will make the recipient happy beyond the “Oh, that’s sweet that they made something for me” reaction? Try this. But beware, it’s addictive. I covered a [...]
A different kind of training
Posted in homeschooling, parenting on April 23, 2008 | 4 Comments »
“Mom, triathletes don’t need to learn how to read, do they?”
“Yep.”
“Really?”
“Yep. They need to be able to read their plane tickets to get from city to city. They need to be able to read training books and books on nutrition.”
…
“Oh.”
Earth Day
Posted in Project 365, adventure, art, field trips, handmade, homeschooling, quotes on April 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It is a windy, grey, blustery, chill Earth Day. This morning we jumped into the van and headed out to a little part just out of town with pencils, brushes, erasers, and water in hand. It was so windy that painting in the grand French tradition of ‘en plein air’ meant sitting in the vehicle.
It [...]
In training
Posted in adventure, parenting, quotes on April 21, 2008 | 6 Comments »
“It is not so much what we are taught, but what we are surrounded by, that determines the course of our lives: the music and poetry and talk, the bright cocoon of life that is woven around us.” Julie Keller
This is the guiding principle on which my parenting and homeschooling is based. After all, the [...]
‘Tis a far, far better shirt I wear today…
Posted in Project Spectrum, handmade, sewing on April 17, 2008 | 6 Comments »
This is the second of the shirts I’m sewing based on Simplicity’s 3835 pattern. The first got tone-one-tone embroidery and longer sleeves. This one has puff sleeves and elastic under the bust. I really like this longer length – it’s both fashionable and flattering. Although the shirt sometimes calls to me for [...]
Dream shoes
Posted in art on April 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
When you can only have one pair, because that’s what the budget says and it said the same thing for the past 3 years and so you’ve had one pair and then worn it out each summer, well, you don’t get to buy the red pair of your dreams. A red pair only works [...]
Bittersweet
Posted in Project Spectrum, handmade on April 14, 2008 | 13 Comments »
I finished a sweater! The sweater my inlaws gave me the materials for two birthdays ago! The one in the incredible shade of green! The sweater that would go with me to Germany as a foundation piece for my wardrobe!
Except.
Except you have to ignore the fact that, though I knit the small [...]
Worth your Ear Time
Posted in homeschooling on April 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Looking for a podcast to build a brainier you? I’ve discovered a great listen: CBC’s “Ideas”, renowned for it’s depth and sophistication, has a new series called “How to Think About Science”. I listened to the first one the other day and was transfixed. It asks important and fascinating questions like “What is science?”, “Why [...]
Too many hats
Posted in Project 365, art journal, homeschooling on April 11, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Normally, the level of activity in this house is manageable. Thanks to the jogging, the healthy foods, and the serene and positive outlook I cultivate, I have the energy to feel as though I’m riding a pleasantly fast-moving river. Then there are the weeks when it all seems like it’s just. too. much.
Insanely, [...]
