Color!

Is that FRESH graffiti?!

Those do appear to be buds on a tree….

The wind, she toys with us every spring. Her most visible gift, bags in trees.
Ahhhh. Alright, alright, already. I know. It’s Spring. Everyone is going on about it as if it were some sort of relief after a long, hard winter! Sure, we [...]

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(The boy’s first attempt to scale walls like Spidey.)
Spring cleaning today. Delay by blogging. A survey of items that are currently strewn across the floors of my dwelling. It’s like we had a party in a Vegas suite and this is the aftermath:
purple boa necklace
giant dice pillow
numerous stray lego blocks
one plastic pony, very cute but [...]

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(Caution: If you are from the 4+ kid category, as many of you are, prepare to ROTFL)
This is ridiculous. I know I can do it. I know I’ve essentially been doing it for a few years anyway. So can somebody please tell me why I am all panicked about having a kindergarten-aged kid in [...]

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(Trying out the tactile thing with chocolate play dough. Creating good brain connections the sneaky way….mmmmm, math smells good)
Did you ever run out of eggs, milk, bread, fresh fruit and fresh vegetables, so you pack your 2 to 6 children up and zip off to the store, arming them with lists and getting lots of [...]

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(Zine boy working under a deadline. At one point in the workshop, a girl who was using this word processor asked me how to change the font. I actually had to think about it for a minute.)
In order to satisfy my own curiosity, I have a homeschool-related challenge for you for tomorrow. If you like [...]

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(More American tribal belly dancers with their colorful garb! This was my daughter’s favorite workshop of the conference.)
I just got back from the big annual homeschooling hoopla. The conference. This year we splurged and stayed at a hotel about 25 miles from our home just to experience the whole deal in style, and to cut [...]

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We’re wrapping up our study of human biology soon, so it seemed like a visit to the Body World exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry would be appropriate. Then I read this disturbing stuff about plastination and tried to talk myself and kids out of it. Turns out we took the older one [...]

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(My kid’s hand and a blowtorch are too close together in this picture, collaborating to make a glass bead. Ugh.)
What a week, I tell ya’. Much has come down the pike, and I’m going to lay it out straight for ya’, as long as doing so involves lots of colloquialisms and cliches. This means, apart [...]

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(The long wait….does flouresence make it worse?)
Ever since I was a kid, I’ve been dwelling on the injustices of childhood. I remember back then I made a promise to myself that as an adult I’d be a lifelong advocate for kids. I’d help them secure the rights they deserved. I’d draft a declaration of independence [...]

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