Today we went for two walks. One with the boys and then later in the afternoon, one with Clare. Aidan was hurting more again today so we are thinking that I will have to call the nurse tomorrow : (. It is a challenge keeping him quiet! He will play, then clutch his stomach and [...]
Last Friday I finished reading Sir Gawain and the Green Knight to Brendan. It was nice how it tied into our epic theme of the last three years. It was a spectacularly organized and vividly realized poem and the ending was a revelation to me. Before that I read him Thorstein the Staff-Struck and before [...]
As for the title: well, I decided that “interlude” must mean etymologically ” between the game”, so since my last post was about interludes… OK, you see, and if I’m wrong in my etymology, don’t tell me. It’s after midnight. After I wrote my last post about learning interludes, I decided I could better discern [...]
I should be used to it by now. Every time we have a rush of activity, the next couple of days are sort of sporadic and quiet. After our squirrel adventure on Wednesday, yesterday was a down day. I’m trying to remember if we did ANYTHING. I read a bit of [...]
What we had on our schedule today: a visit from Aidan’s occupational therapist, Kieron’s baseball picnic in the evening, then Clare’s choir. So I knew I needed to vacuum (for the OT visit) and bake cookies for the picnic. It looked like one of those peaceful, productive, moderately eventful days. NOT. The OT came early, [...]
The California Sierras where we live are never predictable as far as weather goes. Last week it was HOT, like going straight into mid-summer. Over the weekend the temperature dropped sharply and we got several inches of rain. This week it has been sunny and bright, but cool and windy — almost perfect spring weather. [...]
While Liam was still at college, he and and I made plans to work on writing stories this summer. We both have trouble finishing stories that we start writing. Partly it’s because both of us get into “duty” mode where we start feeling there are more important/urgent/serious things to do than write fiction. Partly we [...]
Yesterday, Sunday, was the first at-home family day for quite a while. And the weather reversed, too. I built a fire in the woodstove for the first time in several weeks, and the rain drummed continuously and soothingly on our metal roof. Aidan wanted to go outside in the rain with his stroller, but after [...]
It is almost 2:30 am and I just put a sleeping Paddy in bed, since my back was beginning to ache from holding him in my arms and sitting at the computer. He half-woke and asked sleepily, “Are you Mama?” Yes, my little one, who else would be nursing you in the dead of night [...]
I was reading an old Growing without Schooling magazine and found a letter by Alison McKee. She was talking about how she sometimes compared her son Christopher’s life with all the challenging creative things she read about other kids doing in GWS. Then she went on to describe how she saw her son take up [...]
