Family News

Well, I was feeling twinges of guilt about packing up (nearly) all the children’s toys, but no more.
I sat next to Melody for a huge chunk of time yesterday afternoon while she made up an entire fantasy with…
(…wait for it…..)
…A cribbage board.
And its little colored pegs.
And we’re talking epic fantasy here.  At one point she [...]

Sorry it’s been so long since I’ve written here.
A lot’s been going on, but I’ve waited because none of it “stable” enough for me to write about it; to set in stone as “reality.”
But now I figure if I wait till it’s all at that level I might not remember enough to record a bunch [...]

The girls are in ecstasies: we are having a Fairy Party this Saturday, complete (Lord-willing, and mom-capable) with things like a fairy cake, fairy games and fairy crafts.
If I’m *really* together I’ll have adorable pictures (that may or may not end up on the blog…) of the ladies in their finery and enjoying themselves.
Right now [...]

We are dropping grammar and spelling for now.
I’ve decided it’s too soon to really push those for Natasha, and I expect regular copy work to open those topics in a more complete and natural way than I’ve yet come up with on my own.
Math continues to be insanely easy for Natasha, but has just begun [...]

This morning Melody didn’t want to get dressed right away.  I told her to make her bed and we had a fuss-fest the whole time.
When the bed was done I thanked her and she continued to fuss.  I asked and told her several times to stop and finally reached my fill and snapped at her
“Fussing [...]

Another brain-dump thanks to Jenn’s lovely idea at Conversion Diary.
Enough on my mind I did two this week (another one at UntanglingTales)
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Elisha broke 3 last month (I had a sprained knee the day of his annual check-up and missed it– still haven’t rescheduled), and he is decidedly no longer a toddler.  [...]

I took Natasha to the dentist this morning to get a cavity filled. She did very well and was only a little sore afterward.
All the kids are brushing more regularly now, though Jay said Melody is not yet cleared to brush unsupervised– whatever that means .

Got a bunch of books yesterday, and sat a while reading the new ones to the kids.
One really cute one is Lingingstone Mouse where the little critter is searching for China, where he wants to set up his new nest after leaving home.  The first time we read it I had just said the bit [...]

I wrote about Elisha’s first protective act here, but there have been three more in the last few months that were clearly deliberate, and I want to remember them too.
Back before Jay returned from Antarctica I would send Natasha out with Joule to hold the leash and make sure the dog did its business in [...]

We started Annie with the kids while I was folding clothes last week.
I turned it off after the “We Got Annie!” song, because I was growing more and more convinced now isn’t the right age for that movie.   But it was a terrific up-beat ending for their introduction to the movie, and the girls [...]