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 Homeschooling, Tommy on Oct 4th, 2013
Yesterday Grandma and Grandpa stayed home with the girls while Tommy and I went to CBS. I came out of small group to the big room for the teaching, and Julie, the children’s director, passed me and said, “Don’t be surprised if you see your little guy–we have a surprise for you!” Sure enough, Tommy […]
Posted in Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Tommy on Sep 30th, 2013
Derek’s students didn’t leave until dark last night, so we left the table and chairs outside. The kids loved having “open air school” today! (And yes, we are painting again.)
Posted in California, Elizabeth, Friends, Homeschooling, Susanna, Tommy on Sep 25th, 2013
This morning, we packed up the car and headed into the Valley with our homeschooling friends Katie and Jack to visit the Getty Museum. Our excuse was wanting to see their four Monet paintings to finish up our month studying Monet, but in typical field trip fashion, we spent less than 10 minutes in the […]
Posted in Tommy on Sep 21st, 2013
Posted in California, Elizabeth, Susanna, Tommy on Sep 16th, 2013
Last night we went to a Pirate swimming party for our buddy Sam. The kids are still wired from the swimming and the sugar!
Posted in Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Tommy on Sep 13th, 2013
The kids just LOVE our fine art “special” for September. We’ve been reading about and watching movies about Monet, and it has inspired a frenzy of painting. Tommy has created our own “art corner” in the family room, and we’ve used up an obscene amount of art supplies every day we’re at home. (Family–art supplies, […]
Posted in Tommy on Sep 11th, 2013
I’m catching up on pictures from the weekend…Saturday was Tommy’s first soccer game! It was extremely frustrating for me because I had to miss most of the game trying to find out information for deadbeat parent volunteers who were too lazy to find it out for themselves. But I did get to watch Tommy for […]
One of Derek’s colleagues gave us their old kiddie pool last week, which was great for our second week in the 90s. Only problem is that our grass underneath was totally dead after just two days…any suggestions?
Our visit with Grandma just flew by. I just don’t know where the time went!