Over the bridge… Over the roads on moving land… Over the perilous boulders… To Point Vicente we go! If it seems like we’ve been hitting the tide-pools a lot – we have. Low tide seems to be prevalent in the fall/winter here and in the spring/summer we go months without. I’m sure there’s a reason […]
I hope you had a blessed Thanksgiving! Here are a few photos from the past couple weeks capturing some fun moments: A close encounter with a Great Blue Heron… A first time volunteered recitation… precious. this counts as phys ed and science… An adorable handcraft – tutorial and template here. There’s no end to how
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Here’s a video from our tromp along a trail earlier this week. We think this is one of Rabbit’s long lost Relations, but we’re not quite sure so we brought it home to see what will emerge. Any ideas what it might be? Here are some more pictures… praying mantis white sage gall that we
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Images from Tokien’s Letters from Father Christmas Our last meeting was on the Holidays and there were some great ideas so I thought I’d post them all here. This is really just a list of my notes from the evening of things other than the typical advent calendar, caroling, etc. that are in no particular
Having played violin in an orchestra in Japan, my Mother loved classical music and often played it in our home when I was a little girl. Sometimes we would visit her older sister, in whose tiny home in Tokyo sat a Grand Piano, far too large for its surroundings, but an essential in their home.
We couldn’t find our bedtime free read last night, Caddie Woodlawn, so I asked my daughter to pick another book. She picked Robin Hood, which we never finished from last year, YR2, which never sat right with her (the not finishing). It was her favorite book last year she said because of the ‘words’ and
And the winner is…. jennebeker!! Congratulations!! You have won an autographed copy of “Raising Real Men“!! (jennebeker, please contact me with your address by Email and we’ll get your prize to you asap.) To make our giveaway interesting, I asked everyone to include with their submission, one thing most people do not know about them.
If you’ve ever been to Laguna Beach, you’ve most likely driven by Laguna Coast Wilderness Park. It sits on the only main road in to Laguna Beach from the freeway that curves its way through sandstone canyons. It was the spot of our nature excursion this week. We headed from the Nix Nature Center under
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My husband took this picture at the pumpkin patch the other day – I just love it. Everyone is looking at the camera, we’re all smiling – these are the moments we like to remember; the ones we love to share with everyone. The ones we frame and hang on our walls. Here’s the one
Okay, we don’t normally do narrations at bedtime. We usually reserve evenings for free reads and stories that may help them fall asleep, not something that they have to be so attentive to as to narrate afterwards. But we were getting behind in our Robin Hood reading last spring, and the day before I was
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