I have so many little matters to tell you of, that I cannot wait any longer before I begin to put them down.
Posted in California, Elizabeth, Friends, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Nov 12th, 2016
The Harvey girls joined us yesterday for a hike at Malibu Creek. Despite quite a bit of whining from everyone under age 9, Melanie and I had a good time walking and talking!
Posted in California, Friends, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Nov 6th, 2016
After a week of busy evenings and random nights out late, it was so nice to just hang out on the pad with the neighbors. Susie and Nicholas, aka Nico, aka Nicky, BFFs and kindred spirits Declan and Janie, whose angelic faces hide their youngest-child, mischief-making tendencies Mattox serenading YoShen and Tommy with a harmonica […]
Posted in Elizabeth, Friends, Janie, Sewing Projects, Susanna, Tommy on Oct 31st, 2016
Aragorn (inspiration) Arwen (inspiration) Eowyn (inspiration) Galadriel (inspiration) None of the girls knew about the girl characters in LOTR, having only read The Hobbit, but as soon as we told Susie she could wear a pretty dress and wield a sword, she was all in. Elizabeth got a necklace and Janie got a crown, so […]
Posted in California, Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Oct 26th, 2016
On Monday, we took a field trip day up to Santa Barbara! First up, the Ty Warner Sea Center. We love this little museum out on the SB pier. Since we’re studying oceans in science this year, we did a lot of observing and talking to the docents about the various sea creatures. As always, […]
Posted in Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Oct 20th, 2016
We are loving the kids’private French classes with Marion, a French mom in TO. They sing songs and read books and play games and have a blast improving their accents and learning vocab. Our charter pays for the older three, and I just have to pay for Janie. Tommy looks underwhelmed in these two pictures, […]
Posted in California, Janie, Susanna on Oct 19th, 2016
Somehow it doesn’t seem quite right to be getting pumpkin spice steamers while wearing our lightest summer clothes, but we’ve got to make it feel like autumn somehow!
Posted in California, Elizabeth, Friends, Homeschooling, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Oct 14th, 2016
Our homeschool pumpkin patch field trip happened to be today, so we drove straight from the airport to the farm and brought Grandma along on the field trip! This was the fifth year with this crew, and the kids love it just as much now as they did back then. The weather was perfect, a […]
It was a Blackstone recruiting dinner tonight, so Derek and Aaron and Janelle headed out to talk up Blackstone to Pepperdine kids while the kids and I played with Judah and Ari. Janie and Judah are quite a twosome! Save
Little Micah is Janie’s friend, not to be confused with big Micah (who is 6), Elizabeth and Susie’s friend. So many girls named Micah in our life! Today Janie got a morning playdate with Little Micah, the big kids got to do school on the road, and I finally got to discuss Toxic Charity with […]
Posted in California, Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Sep 27th, 2016
I picked oceans for our science theme for the year (for obvious reasons). Yesterday it was over 90 by 10 am, so we rushed through school and headed out to Malibu Lagoon (hadn’t been there in five years!) to do some nature study. Note our condo in the background–little light colored splotch in the mountain […]