Despite all my Waldorf guilt, there are still some Waldorf-y traditions we keep. For years now, in the week before Easter, the kids and I have made and planted an Easter garden. We take an old pan, and fill it with soil. We add a “tree” cut from the branch of a real tree, a [...]
The latest installment in My Year of Excellent Essayists project. random notes: You may or may not have heard of Sue Hubbell. I chose her because she wrote a wonderful book called A Book of Bees…and How to Keep Them, which I read a couple of years ago when I became curious about beekeeping. Since [...]
Lately, Mr. T has been spending a lot of time with Ed Emberley. I have my own fond memories from the 70’s of checking out armloads of Ed Emberley books from the bookmobile that parked near the tennis courts, in the suburban tract where I lived. I never thought of myself as able to draw, [...]
I never got around to writing an atwitter post last month, so there’s more to share this month. A few of the things that have me all worked up these days: beekeeping. About ten years ago, we planted our front hillside with more than sixty lavender plants. Every July the hillside is smothered in bees, [...]
Our homeschooling group hosts a history fair every year and I love it. I love talking to kids who are excited with what they’re learning about. I love seeing the handiwork of little hands. (Those are Mr. T’s hands and planets.) A collection of Native American dwellings. I love seeing the creativity of their displays. [...]
Lulu is finishing up her project for our homeschool group’s history fair. It’s an Indian dollhouse kitchen inspired, I think, by her fairy house building with Mr. T. My favorite parts are the tiny clay spice dishes, and the window out to an authentic Indian street. She wanted to build a modern-day Indian kitchen. It [...]
One of Mr. T’s favorite things to do is to tell me a story, and have me write it down. Actually, he’s been adding on to the same story for months now–Scritch and Scratch, about a boy and a girl turned into wolves who have many adventures in space. Yesterday he was jumping out of [...]