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Part IV If you wheeled pedals, or turned the capstan enough, the Exhibit title would start moving and lighting up, from your energy. This dancefloor was also a video game: we were running from a red ball that would explode Continue reading Boston Children’s Museum V; other Wonderful Stuff→

Part III M went top to bottom 6 times, in 3 different sessions.  He asked to do it one more time as we heard the museum closing in 30 min warning. Once when DH was playing tag inside the structure, Continue reading Boston Children’s Museum IV; the Climbing Sturucture→

Part II I didn’t have the heart to ask if they were planning on complying with the CSPIA or not, but this little store has been a fun part of our visits to the museum for ages. Do you need Continue reading Boston Children’s Museum III; the recycle shop→

Thanks partly to all the natural light in the museum, I got a lot of great shots yesterday!  I decided to break the blogs up into mini blogs, so that reading the entries would not be an exercise in waiting Continue reading Boston Children’s Museum II; keeping up the energy→

What a day!  We took the commuter rail into Boston yesterday, walked the 4 blocks from South Station to the Boston Children’s Museum, and spent 6 jam packed hours exploring, comparing the new renovation to the old, B missed the Continue reading Boston Children’s Museum I→

I hadn’t kicked yesterday’s IBS headache this morning.  I decided to do this week’s history morning, today.  I let those days float until I need them. (A history morning is where M and B together listen to the history reading, Continue reading Sometimes the Story of the World is Too Exciting ;-)→

I did send the camera, but they forgot to take photos.  I had romantic ideas about how fixing Grandma’s dryer would go for DH and the boys; turns out, they did learn some things, but it went a little more Continue reading Fixing Grandma’s Dryer with Daddy→

I think K is teething, and having a growth spurt, or else it’s because we all did go to evening church last night, one of our former Sunday School Students was getting baptized, and the deaconesses were having a reception Continue reading We are officially just Gonna Float today→

When I was a little girl, I got off the bus near the soccer field at Nyack College, and waited for my mom to walk up from the hospital where she worked, and walk me home.  UP is the operative Continue reading Hanging out During B’s Flute Lesson→

The "PC" version: We believe in preserving the environment through grassroots recycling efforts; recycling, repairing, and reusing electronic waste products. The "Non-PC" version  "We enjoy finding cool electronic gadgets in the trash and fixing them!"

Because I took the picture before the diaper blow out that got poop in K’s hair!

    ChristineM over at the Thinking Mother recently wrote that there don’t seem to be many blogs by homeschooling mothers of tweens who write helpful blogs about the hard stuff of homeschooling, and that she’d like the mentoring.  Since I Continue reading Yes M, the yardstick is a numberline→