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 Apr 18th, 2014
Since Ben’s birthday was yesterday, we joined them at Underwood Farms for a playdate party. Unfortunately, it was also spring break, so Underwood decided to jack up their prices and strew tacky Easter eggs everywhere for the week. (Somehow I don’t find enormous pumpkins tacky–I just object to minivan sized Easter baskets.) The farmhand yelled […]
Posted in California, Elizabeth, Susanna, Tommy on Apr 11th, 2014
Derek took all three big kids to the big game Wednesday night while Janie and I stayed home and convalesced.
Posted in California, Elizabeth, Friends, Susanna, Tommy on Apr 7th, 2014
Derek had a conference this weekend on campus, and Hannah was flying into San Diego for a concert, with Eleanor driving down to meet up with her, so the kids and I decided to drive down to San Diego, too, and spend a couple nights in a hotel to hang out with our friends. While […]
Posted in California, Elizabeth, Family, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Mar 26th, 2014
We’ve been having lots of fun with Grandma and Grandpa! On Monday, the kids asked to take them up to Santa Barbara to show them the Sea Center.
Posted in California, Family on Mar 24th, 2014
Saturday was the Great Race of Agoura Hills. I ran my first 5K there two years ago, when trying to lose my Susie baby weight. I hated it, but it was effective. And after watching a slug like me complete a race, my way-more-active mom caught the running bug and starting running 5Ks, 10Ks, and […]
Posted in California on Mar 13th, 2014
So last year, Derek told me Kristen Bell and Rob Thomas were starting a Kickstarter campaign to make a Veronica Mars movie. One of their higher donation levels included tickets to the red carpet premiere. After a few minutes of hemming and hawing, we decided to go for it–and it’s a good thing, too, because […]
Posted in California, Elizabeth, Friends, Homeschooling, Susanna, Tommy on Mar 6th, 2014
We try to do some kind of field trip with Katie and Jack every week or so. This week, we stayed in TO and visited the Gardens of the World Botanical Gardens with sketching materials.
Posted in California, Janie, Susanna on Mar 5th, 2014
Posted in California, Tommy on Feb 28th, 2014
So yesterday it was 68 degrees and sunny–a perfect day to play outside, right? Not if you live in SoCal. Nope, we do indoor recess, cancel park day, and stay off the playground (unless you’re a crazy midwesterner)…all because it rained the day before. This is not a joke. Early on in our time here, […]
Posted in California, Homeschooling, Music, Tommy on Feb 26th, 2014
I liked going to the symphony. First there was Mother Goose suites and then there was music for a Brazilian carnival. And then (this is what we have been learning about), Pictures at an Exhibition! It was music composed to paintings because a man named Victor Hartmann painted many paintings and then he died when […]