Eclectic Parent

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 Can […]

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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 […]

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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.

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http://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 punk. Using […]

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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 Sea […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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We started the day swimming. I’ve been forgetting to comment on that. But having a pool right out your door makes for lots of quick swims – one before breakfast, one before or after siesta – sometimes both, one before bed.
Today we hit the little breakfast place across the street. They are narrow streets with […]

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On Friday we headed down to Tucson for a gym meet after picking D up at Casa Vida. C just did not want to go - not to Tucson, not out of the house. Luckily grandma had been down shopping and took pity on the homebody, swooping him up and taking him home with her. […]

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