So, it’s a holiday today. And I told my son, “sure, we can have a halloween party and invite your friends”. And I told the kids “sure, you can be Darth Vader and Princess Leia and I’ll put together those costumes”. And I told a friend “sure, I can watch your daughter, no problem”. And [...]
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Sweeping Beauty: Contemporary Women Poets Do Housework wasn’t quite the book I was expecting. The poems don’t really seem to be about housework, but rather just loosely related to domesticity and women’s traditional roles. I was hoping for poems about the zen of dishes, the pain in the knees of scrubbing a floor, etc, but [...]
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I’m trying to revamp my house so that it works better and doesn’t end up with quite so much clutter. It occurred to me that I have always organized by looking at the space, and trying to think how to fit things in to that space in the most efficient or pleasing manner. That’s all [...]
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Carbon had a cavity filled today. We were kind of dreading it – this is his first cavity visit. I hate the dentist, and I’m afraid my dentist-phobia doesn’t make the kids want to do it either. But the dentist prescribed a sedative medication that I gave Carbon this morning, so I was taking a [...]
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Saturday I took the kids to a local “Family Farm” for their pumpkin patch madness. We were meeting up with folks from church (an open invitation for a Meet-Up to anyone interested), and some of our friends came. The weather was perfect and warm, we saw the geese go by overhead, we munched on crisp [...]
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I am doing UU History in the Religious Education classes at my church, and I sometimes want to use puppets to make the story more interesting. But what if you can’t find the right puppets? And you don’t have time to make them all from complete scratch? Solution: Playmobile on sticks. It works great, and [...]
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Despereaux has picked up steam, and Carbon is quite enjoying it. It’s a month over due at the library though, so we need to read these last few chapters and return it! Ack.
I am reading a book that DH thinks is quite funny, because on the back one of the little blurbs says “If you [...]
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For Earth Scouts, we’ve been studying our local body of water, the lovely Puget Sound. I’m so thrilled with how this badge study ended up, with lots of learning and fun.
Inspired by Teresa, I checked into whether there were any resources I could borrow from local museums or aquariums. And there was! I got a [...]
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I just love felt. It is so easy to work with, and you can create so many simple things out of it. There are so many possibilities for making felt playboards, either with all felt or using a variety of other materials at the same time.
This felt jungle at Plumpudding was very inspiring.
And I had [...]
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NPR has an article up about child’s play that is worth the read.
Hat tip to my friend “Masasa”
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