Today was one of those days kids love—and apart from having to shovel the driveway, it was pretty fun for us adults too. We woke to a winter wonderland with a good dump of snow overnight; the sun came out; and it wasn’t too cold, just a few degrees below freezing. Finally, perfect tobogganing weather! [...]
We’re taking a ‘mental health’ day today as it has been a busy week, and we’re all fighting off colds to boot. But Gareth and I still spent a few minutes snuggling on the couch with him reading aloud to me, something we wanted more for the snuggles than the reading today, I’d think. Gareth [...]
Today is International Waffle Day, or Vaffeldagen. It apparently started in Sweden and marks the beginning of spring—which, when I look out my window at “the winter that never ends”, seems rather ironic. But no matter; in our house, any excuse to make waffles is well-received! So this afternoon I headed to the store and [...]
This afternoon the boys and I headed to the library for a one-off Reader’s Theatre class. It turned out to not at all be what I was expecting—I thought the kids would be the active participants doing reader’s theatre (i.e., reading short scripts, of varying difficulty), as I have seen kids do in schools. Instead, [...]
The boys and I met up with some homeschoolers on Wednesday at our local nature park, as the temperature climbed into the low 20s C (70s F). The boys told me they had a great time and want to do more homeschool park days. They spent their time doing many things. Writing in the dirt: [...]
Had another quiet day today, as I came down with Daegan’s cold. The boys managed to amuse themselves (and eat all the banana muffins in the house!) while I got a much needed 4-hour nap. Bless them! So not much to post about today, but here’s a small moment I wrote up a couple weeks [...]
It was a beautiful afternoon on Thursday—warm, calm, and sunny—so the boys headed outside. They started in summer shoes (crocs) and shirt-sleeves, but Gareth, who has been sick this week, came back in for his light jacket. Not Daegan though. By the time Gareth and I returned outside, Daegan was in bare feet, enjoying the [...]
We played a couple games with popsicle (craft) sticks last night. I got the first game idea from a blog post about making shapes (triangle, square, pentagon, hexagon, etc.) using sticks, but added a little twist of my own to make the game broader. I began giving each boy 1 stick. “What can you make?” [...]
I just saw this on this blog, and it is simply too fun not to share. Enjoy!