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Mom, you’ll be proud. I use my Zoology degree at least once every year when I choose not to make anatomically correct bones, but instead a whole pile of identifiable ones. Meringue bones from our graveyard:
Will and Sylvie got Star Wars figurines for Sylvie’s birthday. For Sylvie, an Obie Wan; for Will, a Yoda aka Oda. Will has been active in play since the purchase. Apparently Obie and Oda used to be friends, but Obie Wan was a troubled kid and used to punch his friends. Now, Oda doesn’t like […]
Tonight the kids dragged me to the Lawrence Hall of Science Halloween fair. We were rather late getting up there, so we made it to only the juice table and the fortune teller before it was time for the Magic show. According to the fortune teller, Sylvie has a brother, is about 2, likes grape […]
Weekend America asked 10 writers to write scary stories that can be read in less than a minute. Here’s this year’s. And last year’s.
Here’s one way to watch the PBS Frontline Choice 2008. You can also download the entire show from iTunes.
Our kids are slowly becoming involved with this election as we’ve made them suffer through the conventions and then all 4 debates with us. Sylvie clapped happily everytime McCain or Palin spoke during the RNC – which I think says something about their demographic. And just like most Americans, Sylvie has stopped clapping for those […]
Look at those two boys. Will has always made his current age seem old. At 2 weeks, I felt like he’d been alive (and awake) for months. At 6 months, he had the speed and agility of a toddler. At 2, he seemed so self-assured and worldly. And now, at 4, when I turned around […]
It has been a long time since I’ve worked on the small fun stuff – somehow quick flannel pants don’t count – so I dug a shirt out of the box waiting to go to Goodwill and went to town on a new shirt for Sylvie. Gap mens shirts are really soft and nice to […]
One of the few good things about the kids falling ill is that I got to spend some one on one time with Will last week. Monday he stayed home and we wrote daddy a love note – I made dotted letters which he traced. We made a garland of ghosts out of cheap napkins […]
The Christmas shopping season begins the day after Thanksgiving, but the Christmas crafting season goes all year round. In case you are at a loss for semi-manly ideas – I’m thinking we might make a round of keychains using techniques I’ve learned for making resin jewels. Here’s a tutorial for making resin jewels from threadbanger. […]