At noon, the kids and I were pondering how to spend our afternoon. It was “Tuesday Tweets” so I had planned to find a little time to get outside and do some birding along the Rail Trail, and our homeschool playgroup was meeting (in two places at once, actually – a bowling alley and a [...]
It has been gloomy and unseasonably cold this week, so today we’re wanting to cuddle down under blankets and listen to audio books. A few weeks ago, Leigh and I caught a deal at kids.woot.com and picked up six sets of kids’ audio books from Naxos – each set is 8 cds, around 9 hours [...]
Bedtime in the Mind Games house is a sweet time of day, as we each find a quiet, calming activity and head off to dreamland. Some nights, like tonight, BabyGirl puts herself to bed after we’ve put on her diaper and helped her brush her teeth. Here’s how we found her, surrounded by…
…two pairs of [...]
Aaaaah.
After a long but good day – with a fun stop to play with friends – we made it to Piseco at about 6 o’clock. We had a wonderful evening talking and playing with family, and looking at the gorgeous full moon.
Reorganizing the homeschool shelves. I pull Muzzy Spanish Vol. 1 & 2, in two big yellow and orange clamshell boxes out from behind. BabyGirl squeals in glee: ‘panish, Mommy! Watch orange ‘panish!
We never called it that, we always called it just Muzzy. Where did she pull the ‘panish label from? Delight.
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JediBoy came in our room [...]
First, thanks to all of you who have continued to leave comments, send emails or deliver pokes on Facebook. As each day passes, our grief lessens. We will have a hard time of it when we head up to Piseco for the summer, but for now we are returning to some kind of normal.
And for [...]
I know I’m preachin’ to the choir here, but the fact that we homeschool has been such a relief during these past six weeks!
I’m not constantly worrying about JediBoy “missing school” or trying to fit our chaotic life around someone else’s schedule. Homeschooling has given us the freedom to react to my blood clot and [...]
Another long day for me… can you believe I left the house two days in a row?
Crazy.
BabyGirl is looking through laundry baskets, trying to find socks. She spots one and holds it up, calling out, “Here it is, sock!” I call back to her, “Good! You have one sock. How many do you need?” BabyGirl [...]
JediBoy, who as recently as last Sunday said that books without a picture at least every page or so, books that were longer than Magic Tree House, Junie B. Jones or Geronimo Stilton were too hard for him, hit another wonderful milestone today.
This afternoon, he found Tales of Beedle the Bard out on our bed, [...]
Orange, he says, is now his lucky color, his favorite color.
JediBoy has worked hard at his karate classes, always paying attention in class & practicing all the time at home. Because he takes classes at the YMCA instead of the dojo, he must attend a certain number of classes (I believe it is 20) before [...]
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