My musings on our homeschool, coop, figuring out what my educational philosophy is anyway, and will I ever make curtains for the rest of the appartment?
My Grandma Williams bought me an annuity from the American Bible Society, so that each year on approximately my half year birthday, I would receive a little mad money. She wanted me to know that she knew that I had Continue reading Procrastinating on Paperwork
DH re-installed the scanner at Mom’s house on Father’s Day so I could scan old pictures. My Dad, and Charlie, the miniature schnauzer Me and Dad at a Pioneer Girl’s Club Halloween party. I was a South Nyack Policeman for Continue reading Old Photos
I just joined the Blog Hub group on Ravelry. One of the members, Jasmine issued an invitation to be interviewed on her blog, as a way to squirrel blog posts away for days she might be ill. What a clever Continue reading Nifty Blog Idea
DH is wearing his new Father’s Day shirt. M and K have wandered into one of their rooms and are peacefully playing with toys. A few minutes ago, they were playing Boom, and getting louder and louder. That’s where K Continue reading Saturday taking shape
I feel much better. Nothing like forgiveness to make me feel confident again.
My Mom found a box of photos. I’m excited to the them scanned and blog about them. B is listening to Don Quihote on cd (in English). It’s so much easier to understand it when read by a good narrator Continue reading Scraps
Happy: The year I lived alone in Rochester teck-ing in a lab, my grandparents dropped off my Step-Great-Grandmother’s camphor chest that they had inherited a few years before. My studio had plenty of room, one of the reasons I inherited Continue reading {pretty, happy, funny, real}
As long as we were waiting for the tractor ride at Four Town Farm, and standing all together looking at the koi pond, I thought I’d take their picture – I did forget about the angle of the sun Continue reading The Strawberry Meal
This chocolate meal did not quite count: you see, I added steamed carrots, fresh radishes and plain lettuce salad. Without chocolate. So we have to try again with the veggies in some sort of chocolate garb. __ This was my Continue reading The Chocolate Meal Rehearsal
It took 13 lemons, a pound of butter, 2 quarts of chicken broth, 18 eggs, most of the morning, and three helpers. The menu: Avgolemono lemon cheesecake lemonade lemon creamcheese scones from Betty Crocker’s Homemade Quick breads (a wedding present) Continue reading The Lemon Meal
Oh clueless lady – I understand, really. It’s just that your parenting tactics were inconvenient as well as ineffective. You had your arms full. That’s hard. And your son didn’t want to leave the park and go home. Also understandable. Continue reading You had to Scare him with Spiders.
Pretty: When I read the Organised and Inspired Scrapbooker, I loved the glass jars full of pretty things, but I took a while for me to realise that I could afford matching glass jars. Matching storage jars might cost $6 Continue reading {pretty, funny, happy, real}