Monthly Archives: February 2008
We Like To Sing
We like to sing . . . or at least she does. I wish I’d gotten the camera out for the next day that was a self created montage of Bobby Darin’s Beyond the Sea and the We Like To Sing song. You know, Somewhere beyond the sea, we like to dance and we like … Continue reading
Yes We Can
About a month ago I had found Electoral Compass. It’s a political questionnaire that compares your answers to those of the major candidates for president to give you an idea where your ideas fall. Of course several weeks ago this made more sense considering there were still several candidates for each party. I email it … Continue reading
Mama’s Getting Schooled
Riding in the back of a taxi in Cancun, Mexico in December, we discussed the idea of new year’s resolutions with D (C and B were in a separate taxi with aunt Lizzie and Uncle Tom). D said he wanted to learn to read this year. Pretty good goal. Daddy is trying to give up … Continue reading
Crafts
I have a friends who has a collage degree in fiber arts. Not fine arts, but fiber arts. She talks about how crafts must be both artistic and useful; that is what distinguishes them from decorative arts. Gorgeous, complex quilts, for instance, are still intended to be used. Crafts are fantastic for kids for that … Continue reading
Dolphin Video
I finally got the video link to work so now there is video from swimming with the dolphins in Mexico. It’s pretty choppy, even though daddy redid it three times. Swimming With The Dolphins
. . . Unschooling Voices #12
A fantastic conglomeration of blog entries on unschooling, Unschooling Voices comes out monthly. Whether I am presenting an opportunity to expand one’s view of unschooing or showing how lazy I am by merely posting a link to another’s website that I didn’t get around to writing a blog entry for is merely a matter of … Continue reading
Swimming With The Dolphins (Mexico post catch-up)
[This is a very belated post from our trip to Mexico. We've gotten so busy with real life that I'm falling behind getting the second week of photos uploaded and I'm waiting for the movie to be up to link here . . . but as weeks go by I've decided just to post this. … Continue reading
