Family Feast

Went for a nightime skate today, and it was fun, fun, fun! Played shinny hockey, to the best of our limited and varied abilities, and then came home for hot chocolate. Next on the agenda is our Gourmet Feast. Big bro R has the menu planned out. I’ve already done most of the shopping. Tomorrow [...]

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Practice, Practice, Practice

This knitting project started out as a scarf, and morphed into an irregularly shaped rectangle, but no worries. Jay was as pleased as could be with the outcome, and plans to use it as a dolly blanket. She wasn’t even concerned with the holes, because, as she said, “It just shows how much better I [...]

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Color Mixing

The kids have been playing the Rays of Light game with an intensity bordering on obsession, so I decided to jump on the bandwagon, and seize the opportunity to cement their knowledge of primary and secondary colors. I mixed up three jars of water and food coloring (red, blue, and yellow) and set three empty [...]

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Sewing Mania

Now it’s spread to Jay. Unfortunately, I’m the only one who’s able to thread a needle.

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Garden Shed Update III

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My Shuriken………by Tee

 This is me holding my first shuriken (or ninja star). Mom and I made it out of an old disk! It is for my Hallowen costume. I am being a ninja for Hallowen.

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A World in Miniature

Tee and Jay were inspired today by a fantastic, intricate, detailed city made out of plasticine. It’s a magic land we were told. Anything grows, and anything can happen. There were rivers, mountains, gardens, trees, houses and forts, a coliseum, an obelisk, and a chocolate factory. Now Tee wants to build an Aztec city. Jay [...]

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Garden Shed Update

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Garden Shed I

I never see Tee happier than when he’s hard at work. Doing manual labour, that is. Today we’d just started school when a friend dropped in to say he had time to help us build a garden shed. It was an offer I couldn’t refuse, so the books were set aside. Here is a before [...]

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Cookie Mexico……..by Tee

This is my cookie Mexico.I made it with J and Mom. Mom was our guide. The smarties are the major cites.The blue smarte is Mexico City. The chocolates are mountains. And the icing is to stick everything on. Sorry about the Rio Grande. We forgot to put it on the cookie. When we ate it it tasted as good as gold $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ Wait wait [...]

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Work In Progress

Here’s the map of Mexico that Tee made. Here’s the cookie dough. Next step is trying to get that dough to look like that map. To be continued……  

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Projects On The Go

Here’s what we’re working on right now: Making peanut butter: so far, have purchased the peanuts, and compared the cost of bulk peanuts to the cost of the same weight of natural peanut butter. Making a cookie dough map of Mexico: Tee consulted several atlases, and made several pen and paper drafts. We perused the [...]

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