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Tonight was the get acquainted/curriculum night for Carolyn’s 2/3 classroom. It was great to see what she’s been working on, and how her classroom works. All the kids have jobs, which they had to write a letter of application to get. Carolyn is one of the class librarians – which makes sense considering her love [...]
My day started with oversleeping. Then there was no coffee in the house. And then I had to watch our two (expired) carseats being crushed by the garbage truck as I was pulling down our driveway to go get coffee. And I’ve spent the last several hours changing over Anna’s closet and dresser, putting away [...]
Who says a goalie is supposed to prevent the soccer balls from going in the net, anyway?
OK, so smile potatoes aren’t the healthiest food out there, but they really can’t help but make you smile… …especially when they make such cute leftover bentos! Also, mini sandwich thins are about the best invention ever – the girls both adore mini foods. If it has “mini” in the name they are far more [...]
Carolyn came home today and told me about a math problem she had to do in school: x + y = 10 y = 4 x + x = 12 x = ? I can’t say for certain, but I’m pretty sure I wasn’t doing this kind of math until at least 7th grade…
As today is International Talk Like A Pirate Day, here are my “spoils of war” from the Fiber Festival: Let’s see…clockwise-ish from top left: * Patterns from various vendors. * A “headache pillow” made from lavender & flax seed from Cherry Hill Quilters. * Blue/green fiber is 4 oz. of Polworth from Fuzzy Bunny. * [...]
This weekend is the annual fiber festival put on by our local spinning guild. Our shop has a big booth there, so it’s a working weekend for me! Bits of our booth: Denis and his parents (here for a visit) brought the girls to the festival this afternoon for a bit. Their new rainbow sweaters [...]
(More details can be found on their respective Ravelry pages: Tulips for Carolyn and Tulips for Anna.)
This year, Carolyn is moving up a level to a 1.5 hour class that includes tap, ballet & jazz, and Anna is starting dance with an hour long ballet & tap (and learning how to listen) class. So we moved “dance night” to Wednesdays so they could have classes at (mostly) the same time. This [...]
