Halloween is just two weeks away, so we needed to get some pumpkins! We headed to a local farm market and parked in what must have been the last space available – everyone had the same idea for this drizzly Sunday morning. We checked out the pumpkins and walked through the tepees they had set [...]
Conversation in the car earlier as we pulled into the driveway after dance class: Anna: “Mama, what is that on top of the roof?” Me: “That’s the chimney, honey, for the fireplace we never use.” Carolyn: “Yeah, we’ve never used it, have we?” Me: “Well, not since before you were born.” Carolyn: “Oh! Is that [...]
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 [...]
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…
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 [...]
