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 My sister-in-law, V, sent fun stuff for all the kids with my parents. The thing they brought for E2 was a volcano model that you build and then use baking soda and vinegar to simulate the eruption. It’s so neat, and we all were really excited about seeing it in action. My original plan was to get before […]

 Grandma and Grandpa coming to town is always very exciting. E1, who would choose to do some kind of craft over almost anything else, just has a great time with my very crafty mom. They brought her a Klutz book of sewing projects, and so they were barely awake their first morning before she was asking Grandma to make something […]

 It was work with Dad night, (I talked about that in this post if you missed it) and it was a gorgeous clear night. Next time I’ll have to take my tripod, so I’m not dependent on finding a flat spot to set the camera in the direction I want to photograph. Instead of a […]

I don’t know if you’ve noticed the links I post in the sidebar, but I wanted to comment on today’s. Amazon Swim is about Martin Strel, who today started in Atalaya, Peru, to swim 5400 km down the Amazon to the Atlantic Ocean. The kids and I are tracking his journey with the Triptracker map and photos they are updating daily, and we’ll […]

 This is the pet tornado E1 got in her Christmas stocking. When I saw it in one of my favorite homeschool catalogs, Rainbow Resource, I thought it was a cute idea. It is kind of cool to hold a tornado in the palm of your hand.

 The weather here has just been beautiful, which results in some spectacular skies. I really liked that this shot captured the feeling I had while looking at the awesome sunset. We had a quiet day- this time it’s E3 fighting off a cold, and unfortunately with the gag reflex my family is blessed with, that […]

 We all got together at K’s parents’ house, and I guess you could say we continued with our own Winter-een-mas celebration. The kids brought different games out and played all afternoon. E2 has liked (too tame of a word, really) numbers, patterns and anything similar since before he could talk. As a young baby, he loved clocks. […]

 Music has been a big part of my life as long as I can remember. Some of my earliest memories are sitting by my mom in church trying to sing alto with her, and at home the radio always turned on to the country music AM station in town. I started piano lessons on January 29, 1979. […]

 It was a gorgeous day for January: 45 degrees and not a cloud in the sky. We took advantage of the fact we live in a city that has the most parks per capita and walked to the one two blocks away. There are two separate play areas in this 50 or so acre park, and of course […]

Well, we’re continuing with the cooking theme. 🙂 I forget sometimes how old E1 is. I mean, I can tell you the number of years of her life, but the concept of just how old that is often escapes me. To me, it was just yesterday she was helping me in the kitchen like E3 is […]