This past Friday my girls and I went to Harvest Farms with the Northern Colorado Home School group. They have a corn maze, a place where you can feed and pet various farm animals, a barrel train, and wagon-shaped sandboxes that are actually filled with corn.
L wanted to play in the “corn box,” so we [...]
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Chewed out for home schooling
Posted in Home schooling, parenting on October 17, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Car seat insanity
Posted in parenting on May 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I have long wondered about the common decision many parents take of limiting their family size to two or three children. This is a change from the Biblical times where men and women competed with each other over who could produce the most children.
I have two daughters, and the younger one has already changed from [...]
Dora the template
Posted in Juniper Kangaroo, parenting on April 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
My daughter has been really enjoying watching DVD episodes of Dora the Explorer. It’s a really simple concept, but absolutely perfect for a preschooler. Each episode is quite predictable. Dora and her monkey Boots have to accomplish some task, and there are always three places they have to go and things to [...]
Billions of bilious blue blistering… profanities
Posted in parenting, writing on April 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A couple weeks ago my husband started bringing Tintin volumes home from the library, and I’ve been devouring them. I grew up reading Tintin comic books–in the original French! Tintin is pronounced to rhyme with the sound you make to imitate a baby crying, not like a tin-tin can! And Tintin’s dog [...]
A day in the life of a stay-at-home aspiring author
Posted in Juniper Kangaroo, nutrition, parenting, publishing, revising, writing on April 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This morning I conducted what is becoming a monthly ritual in our household: the trip to the post office with the brown manila envelope in hand. Normally the girls and I walk to the post office, then stop by the park on the way back home. Today, the weather was bad, so [...]
