Tag: homeschool
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Polyester. Yuck.
My son is seriously expressing his sense of style. Not that he cares about style. He cares about comfort and blue. If it looks comfortable and it’s blue, that’s what he wants. Sick this past week, I didn’t go on the shopping expedition to Old Navy for Spring and Summer clothes, which H.o.p. badly needed…
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wherein I tell H.o.p. he's dreaming…
No, no. A third time no. These are the other two castle Dover books we have on hand that H.o.p. wants to make, like tomorrow. Cut & Assemble A Crusader Castle in Full Color, The Krak Des Chevaliers in Syria, by A. G. Smith and Cut & Assemble a Medieval Castle: A Full-Color Model of…
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Hey, sucka…
We made the “Easy to Make” Dover Book castle today, designed by A. G. Smith. See, that face below? H.o.p’s not waving “Hi” to you. He’s waving, “Hey, sucka!!!” to me. Why, “Hey, sucka!” C’mon, take a guess. Any cut-out-and-build castle that bills itself as too easy is going to leave a nine-year-old wailing in…
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I personally think the second dino was eaten
Re the prior post. Memory is funny. I went to look at the Registration Desk painting I’d linked to and it promptly spat back at me one particular video I was listening to when working on the carpet and one of the walls of the yellow-green lit back room. Now we have all those other…
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Not Learning About Geo-Spatial Intelligence with Terry-Firma and Wanda World
Today I thought H.o.p. and I could look at the military’s kid’s section of the Geo-Spatial Intelligence website. H.o.p. could review and I could (probably) mock it–not in front of him, mind you, I wouldn’t want to influence him, because after all I’m trying to see what key ideas and words are dropped on govt…
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Learning about intelligence and information with Little Lady Liberty and Beaker Eagle
The National Counterterrorism Center for Kids Page sucks. You knew it would but it sucks even more than you could have guessed. The reason I was there is The Spy Who Billed Me’s blog on the National Counterterrorism Center’s release of their 2007 Counterterrorism Calendar, which I went to take a look at and is…
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Oops…thar she blows!
Here I have in my Netflix-borrowing hands a DVD of “Cat Women of the Moon”, which far surpasses any expectations I had for it, and I’d planned to blog my giddy, glorious wonder of this film on Friday. But then I opened up the Bloglines and what met my eyes but Pharyngula’s “Demand higher standards…
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I cautiously try on a celebratory hat then replace it on the shelf for now…
Around here, Bush is synonymous with Mega Evil Fucking Bad. H.o.p. has grown up hearing it…is well aware. Y’know the old cartoon where Gallant is Good and Goofus is Bad, in simplifying ethics for H.o.p. Bush has pretty much stood for All Things Bad. “Would Bush do it? Well then that’s just what you don’t…
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Autographs and a refuge-seeking cat
Two events added a little levity to our tissue-packed day on Tuesday (H.o.p.’s working with me on a third roll). (1) When Marty got home in the evening a cat that belongs to a woman upstairs decided it’d had enough of being locked out of the building in the rain and zipped past Marty into…
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"A Day at the Ticket Booth" went splendidly
The Alliance’s Acting I class for 3rd to 5th grades ended today and parents/interested parties got to come in for the last hour and hear a bit of what had been going on the past 6 weeks and watch a little skit. H.o.p. was *very* excited to have us there, introducing me to the entire…
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Of Morris Dancing and Green Men
Some lively Morris Dancing here. Got there by discussions with H.o.p. Thursday on the Green Man. For which he seems to have an affinity, which is why we were discussing it, as for some reason he came upon it again Wednesday night and said he wanted to know more about it. So Wednesday night I…
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When Oscar was Bullied
“Go back to bed,” Marty said before leaving for the studio yesterday. I tried but instead broke out the Throat Coat, hoping that might help. First cold of the season and I’m pissed. I don’t like Throat Coat, it’s so sweet. And it didn’t help. More money more money money spent on homeschooling materials but…