For 2 weeks now we’ve been full tilt unschooling. We do this every so often, for a variety of reasons. Whenever we do, I try to supress my inner control freak and to honestly note what is going on.
Not much of it could be twisted to educational purposes, but most of it sure is fun. [...]

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(Liam’s playmobile advent, complete at last! For a more creative take on the playmobile advent, visit x-entertainment. Mature content.)
First off, I’d like to apologise for not including pictures of wacky Christmas decorations as promised. The extreme cold snap has kept us from our tradition. We may have no problem doing this next week however, since [...]

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(Hark. The haphazard candy cane strewing giant must have been here. One of a series. Disclaimer, it’s not my tree.)
Everyone has their little holiday traditions. Some of ours are quaint, and some are just ours. Among them are;building our own gingerbread house, celebrating St. Nick’s day with the shoes and candy, decorating on December 1st [...]

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This is how it goes down, every year. Leave your envious family behind, because of course, this is a work thing and they’re too cheap to include the whole family. Your family is envious because they think you are going off to have fun. Not to fullfill some duty that is required of everyone in [...]

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(The art of zine making revealed. Fi and her friend Louise have created #2 already. It is “The Stereotype” in which two 8 year old girls enlighten us as to stereotypical stereotypes and their various inaccuracies. It’s hysterical. There was a limited press, and I have only 4 copies left, so you’ll have to do [...]

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(as mentioned on my sister Kate’s blog, the kiss photo. She is on to a new photography contest. I was all keen on it until I saw how paltry the external rewards were and how I’d have to put my name on a mailing list. Then I figured I’d just put the good idea out [...]

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(Does visiting a giant costume store, then taking surreptitious pictures of freaky stuff count as a field trip, I ask you? We think so! Now we know where to go when we feel the urge to dress up as a gingerbread boy or a vile, gnashing nutcracker. Can you see the fear in my son’s [...]

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