Eclectic Parent

This morning D, who  just turned 9, asked to learn to make scrambled eggs. The other two quickly followed. So we started an assembly line, each making their own scrambled eggs from cracking the shell to whisking, which is somehow considered much cooler than stirring, to cooking. C and B both grated their own cheese […]

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I can’t believe I forgot to mention one of the best big words of all: defenestrate. My friend Em gave me that one. Defenestrate: To throw out of a window. Specific, to the point, and makes the kids giggle. A lot of the words that are no longer actively used have specific meanings.  We now […]

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The kids have been into big words lately. It started, oddly enough, with an argument between them over panties versus underwear. Somehow that evolved to all clothing having been called garments at one time and that the stuff underneath was simply your under-garments. From garments, we got to spectacles. That one developed during a discussion […]

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We talk to the kids about practically anything. From explaining the lyrics to Pink’s U & Ur Hand to watching YouTube videos of tongue piercings gone wrong. I have this small fear about being approaching at playgrounds by parents saying my kids told their child Santa doesn’t exist, exactly how babies are made, or exactly […]

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A few weeks ago we were at a housewarming party for a friend (Hi Amy!). I was complaining that our house is always a disaster area and she said it’s what we chose. At first I disagreed. But she explained that we did choose to live the way we do with kids and chaos and […]

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I recently got talked into joining Facebook. I had thought it was the realm of teenagers and drunken college students, but within minutes I had found people I knew, some of whom I hadn’t spoken to in years. FB allows people to not only chat with each other but to see what others say they […]

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We car pool with another family on Fridays for Casa Vida. Last week their son was giving the boys an explanation of the beginnings of the world straight out of Genesis including Adam and Eve. This was on my mind anyway after reading the article about teaching evolution. We’ve always meant to give them a […]

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I came across an article today from the New York Times called A Teacher on the Front Line as Faith and Science Clash. It’s one of those articles that reminds me of all the reasons we prefer to homeschool. And yes, I did just write that we had given the children the choice […]

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Today was my first time as a vendor for my books at teachers’ conference. D’s had invention camp since Monday. B and C have been up to grandma and papa’s on various nights. Grandma has been down. D had a sleepover with a friend. We’ve yet to begin packing for our 5 week road trip. […]

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Eeeek! My sidebar has gone all wanky (that’s a technical word) and in trying to fix it I’ve just discovered a repository of comments going back a few months. I am so sorry I never replied to any. I didn’t know they were there. If any of you are still out there, I’m going to […]

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