Artsy Fartsy
Artistic Endeavors
So C is with grandma and papa for the weekend. I’m sure they are busy adventuring. Meanwhile biggest and littlest are evidently feeling artsy. After a few hours on skype playing minecraft with friends, D started watching youtube videos of drawing tutorials. For a kid who never even wanted to hold a crayon or finger … Continue reading
Too Much To Decide
Monday was full of fun and kids and noise and all sorts of different homeschoolers. Arizona Homeschool Theater held tryout for the spring play. Last fall D was in Romeo and Juliet. He joined the cast very late because they were looking for another boy and we have friends that have performed with them through … Continue reading
Name That Tune
They started playing a game last week where they would hum and song and then have the others guess what it was. I showed them how we could do it on the with the ipod hooked to the stereo. So that’s what we’ve been doing in the car lately. I’m surprised how many song titles … Continue reading
Home Again, Home Again
After days at grandma and papa’s house, the kids are home today. We’re going to see if we can get grandma to write something up about what everyone got up to while they were there. Everyone got right into their toys they’d missed while they were gone. Right now we’re watching So You Think You … Continue reading
Grown Up Night
Grandma came down today, which is always fun. She watched the kids so we could go to an art exhibit at The Red Door Gallery in downtown Phoenix. BOLD (Birth On Labor Day) Phoenix, a coalition of organizations serving pregnant and birthing women in the greater Phoenix Area, planned an art exhibit featuring multi-media art … Continue reading
Flipbook Fun
I found this little bit of coolness browsing bookbabies blog. That’s also the originator of the 6 word memoir tagging. Lots of fun over there. Flipbook, check it out. Mommy found it and made one to show everyone; now they all want a turn.
Eclectic Fusion Blend
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91L-uttvz6A] [This video is pretty slow to go until about 4 minutes in. Also if you object to swearing, and understand mumble, you may want to skip this] This is our, the parents, third year to go see the band Flogging Molly on St Patrick’s Day. They are what could best be described as Celtic … Continue reading
Bopping Along To A Different Drummer
Why do so many people think it’s important for children to know the different between Beethoven and Mozart or Baroque and Classical, but not between punk and rock and blues? Or why limit children to those insipid kids sing the Itsy Bitsy Spider type albums? Our children’s favorite songs range from Bobby Darin’s Beyond The … Continue reading
Dancing Along
One of my sister-in-laws once exclaimed that we homeschool by google. I was explaining what we do and she suddenly figured out a way to explain it to everyone else. Going with the flow, dancing along, surfing through life. Exactly. Not that we look everything up online, but that we flow from one subject to … Continue reading
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
