On Monday afternoon, J and I had an appointment right after school, so by the time we arrived home, M was halfway through the online registration process. “I’m shaving my head on Saturday!” she announced. “Do you really want to shave your head on Saturday?” I asked. “I don’t just want to: I’m doing it. … [Read more…]
Friday night was a bit frantic. I was responsible for taking J and her BFF to the Learning Fair, and they spent the afternoon augmenting their project with new projects and sub-projects and design ideas. Meanwhile I looked up and realized that I had about half an hour before we had to get going, and … [Read more…]
I am anxiously awaiting tomorrow night, our elementary school’s Learning Fair. Right now there’s evidence of J’s project with her BFF everywhere. They’re researching chemical additives in food, which has led to all sorts of groovy-cool little projects-in-process. Like noticing that the brown candies contain multiple color dyes: Cool. Excellent. The girls are exploring and … [Read more…]
This actually is our agenda for this weekend, too, but I wrote this on another Saturday morning a few weeks ago:
If you half-stumbled home
One thing that happens at school is that, beyond reading and math, kids let to learn about all the terrible things that they shouldn’t do, like smoke, drink, take drugs, or play with matches. Fire safety was one of the first big messages for the kids.
I’m in the process of changing Capital District Fun a little bit. It looks different, and things might not work quite the same way. Feel free to tell me what you think. Soon I’ll write more about why I’m scheming and evolving and all that sort of thing, but in the meantime, please be patient … [Read more…]
I wrote this one back before the most recent hacking kerfuffle. . . . So, a reader asked me “can you share a little about your cable-free lifestyle?” The truth is, I’ve had conversations with other folks who are shocked that we don’t have cable, so even though it feels like it isn’t a big … [Read more…]
I mentioned that we went to Jiminy Peak the other weekend, and we had to do some last-minute swimsuit shopping. The girls do their own packing for trips, and the last time we traveled, for J’s gymnastics meet, I was appalled when poor little J changed to go swimming at the hotel pool. She was … [Read more…]
I’m too lazy to write anything. But here, you can click the link to watch me talking about February break.
