I’m baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack! Remember the good old days when I used to podcast too? Well, this time I’m trying it again, except without all of that production process which burnt us all out. This time I’m starting a radio program called Relaxed Homeschooler on Blog Talk Radio.  I will have episodes available here as well as [...]

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15 pool noodles, 4 lengths of 1/2 inch pvc pipe, 200 yards of duct tape plus 7 boys times 10 foam swords, 10 juice boxes, assorted marshmallow sticks, 375 pounds per square inch of energy plus one cake= chaos
That is how the birthday party went down. Quite fun actually. The kids made their own foam [...]

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(Spinners at the Construction Craft Fair yesterday. You can see their stuff at Spinundrum.etsy.com or here.)
Joined Ravelry for real. Was inspired to write this intro which I crosspost here. I guess it is weird that I am on there before Jove who is a truly seasoned knitter. While I’m on the topic, podcasts have been [...]

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What the title should really have been:
Dangerous Things You Let Your Kid Do.
Watch the video and find peace at last. They had me until the kid started driving. Ken also sent me a link to the Free Range Kids blog, run by a deep thinking parent who is apparently trying to find a way, like [...]

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On Monday we were conducting a simple experiment withtin cans which demonstrated Bernoulli’s law. Sounds impressive, doesn’t it? Basically, you blow air between the cans and the air pressure lowers and instead of the cans going apart as you’d figure, they come closer together. Anything hands-on and my kids are all for it, so I [...]

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(The mid-day TV-sloucher as frightening blue guy. Well, you can’t really see too well what I mean by blue, so here…)

There was a bit of resistance in the air this morning. Okay, every morning there is a debate about exactly what will get done by whom and how unfair it is largely because one’s sibling [...]

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Caution: If you are not yet feeling spring madness (ie, for me at least, the creative urge to make stuff happen) then you might find this post kind of boring.
Or in other words, the way I feel today is best expressed by an introduction to a chapter written by Barbara Kingsolver in her latest book [...]

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Some days are just meant to be taken over by a creative wind. Today was one of those days.The kids lept out of bed and instantly started making stuff, so I went with it. The first projects were entirely their own. Mail made his gromit hand armor shown here. Maybe we should call the [...]

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(View from the window this AM. Even though I have called a moratorium on all further snowfall this year, it appears that the memo did not hit the press.)
After reading a bit about homework today, and recalling that the number one question my kids get from friends who go to school is “Do you have [...]

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(I is sleepin’ on yer daughter while she readz me stuff about the enviromint.)
Lori gave me a heads up about BLOG ACTION DAY…I wish I could have provided a bit of dramatic echo there. Anywho, the idea is that on October 15th, which is Blog Action Day, everybody blogs about the environment in a way [...]

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