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, 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 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 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 […]
Posted in California, Susanna on Oct 5th, 2016
Malibu AYSO is so chill. And there are hardly any girls playing U6. So Derek is coaching a co-ed team in which Susie is the only girl. She picked the team color, and the boys picked the name. Go, Purple Jaguars! Save
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 […]
Posted in California on Sep 26th, 2016
Posted in California, Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Sep 23rd, 2016
Medieval History+Illuminated Manuscripts Exhibit at the Getty=Homeschool Field Trip, Of Course! We hadn’t been here for three years, and the kids got way more out of it this time. The family room even had a whole illuminated manuscript activity station, so we got to hit the main point of our field trip twice. Can you […]
Posted in California, Elizabeth, Family, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Sep 14th, 2016
Kaitlyn and Kelly had visited us before Henry, back when we lived in TO. Today they made it to Malibu! Henry was even cuter than when we last saw him in July. I’m doing a pretty good job of getting these kiddos to the beach on an almost weekly basis of late. Couch full of […]
Posted in California, Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Aug 30th, 2016
I keep forgetting to upload pictures as we’re madly enjoying our last week of break and I’m lesson planning for school. Here’s a little dump of our last days of summer! Susie has really gotten confident in the water this year. Here she is, practicing her freestyle (she still needs to get her arms up […]