Kids, CONvergence, and fatality aviation accidents; things in a list

1. Re-entry from the kids having summer camps last week, back to having normal routines, this is going about as well as you’d expect. J tells me that both children appear to have forgotten all math-related skills in a week. I’m not looking forward to my school-teaching days this week. I hold my breath, leaving [...]

Robots!

I won’t be much on the internet today. First, it’s April 1st, and I can’t believe half of what is posted. Second, I’m taking the kids out to see the Minnesota FIRST Regionals. It’s a robotics competition for high-school-aged kids. Robots. See you later, and if you follow me on Twitter, expect pictures.

Less sick than I was!

1. My GOODNESS, I feel so much better today! I spent almost all of yesterday in bed, reading and watching videos. Now I merely have constant snot and a sporadically wracking cough. Go Team! 2. I did do five loads of dishes, though. I think I’ve mentioned this before — we don’t have a built-in [...]

Wednesday evening is for cooking

1. It’s possible that my body no longer processes lactose the way it used to. Some dietary testing was done, and the results were strongly suggestive, let’s say. Yes. Let’s leave it at that. So, I’m a vegetarian eating low-to-no-salt and low-to-no-dairy. This is mildly frustrating, but I find that I am merely grateful that [...]

Friday, now with Togepi

1. Comics have been consistently good the last couple of weeks, and I feel I should write up a review or three for Fantastic Fangirls, but I haven’t gotten to it. :/ I should get on that. 2. I’m reading Welcome to the Jungle, by Hilary Smith, subtitled “Everything you wanted to know about bipolar [...]

Catching up with yesterday

Yesterday was a perfectly lovely day of really a lot of things going on. 1. We’re trying the Singapore Math curriculum for the kids. After a few lessons it seems to be working out quite well. After the placement tests, we seem to have selected the right level of work for each kid. And the [...]

The really nice days

Yesterday was one of those really nice days with my family. We got up and got ready for the day, then headed to the Mall of America so the kids and J could go on the Ghostly Gangplank. Ghostly Gangplank is a ropes course attraction — it’s four stories of wires, ropes, and wobbly bridges. [...]

Today’s sex ed

Today in school we spent about an hour on sex ed. Yes, my kids are both seven years old. Yes, we have been covering sex ed since they were three. I am adamant in the belief that the best way to teach kids about sex is to inform them what the broad range of normal [...]

Five things make a post

1. After four days of not catching any mice in the kitchen, we are tentatively hoping that we are mouse-free. We hope. I started cleaning the kitchen today. Let me say, scrubbing cupboards and drawers and all the contents therein has significantly increased the amount of dishes and dish-related work I do in a day. [...]

Tuesday’s child is full of lists

1. Florence and the Machine’s “Drumming Song” is so stuck in my head. It’s a great, great song about the kind of crush which isn’t a crush, but is a consuming obsession. And, naturally, I thought that someone needed to make a vid of this for Doctor Who, a pan-Doctor vid of Doctor/Master. According to [...]