We spotted a hummingbird in our backyard today, for the first time ever. It was quite exciting. So of course we went straightaway to the store to purchase a hummingbird feeder in hopes that it will return.
Category: Our Life
Slide
Cate: “Going down the slide is between fun and scary!â€
Makerspace
My girls love our local Maker Space. This week the little girls worked on fabric squares and Adrianna and her friend, Thomas, made keychains with the laser cutter. Bree is hoping to make a plushie at the next homeschool open hours. She’s already started the pattern (a Minecraft creeper!) It will be her first experience […]
Settlers of Catan
Adrianna has won 2 of the last 3 games of Settlers of Catan. But this is a win for me, too, because now she wants to play it more. #myFavoriteGame #citiesAndKnights
Swallowed a Pop Bead
One of the children accidentally swallowed a pop bead today. And it wasn’t by the child that either Greg or I would have assumed. Thankfully it was one of the smaller pop beads and it didn’t get stuck in her throat. After much freaking out (on her part), even after reassuring her that she was […]
Spring Violin Recital
Adrianna had her Spring 2018 Violin Recital this weekend. She played a fiddle piece called “Cluck Old Hen.” I love that it included plucking and double-stops (playing two notes at once.)
May Day
Some friends of ours put on a May Day celebration this week. They taught all of the kids some May Day dances and how to make flower crowns. And everyone did the traditional May Pole dance with the ribbons, though with so many little kids participating it looked more tangled than weaved at the end! […]
Back in Town
My sisters and I traveled back to our hometown for the funeral of our childhood friend, Jacob Adamo. As funerals often are, it was a bittersweet time. Nice to see so many people we hadn’t seen in years (or decades), nice to spend time with my sisters, but also so very hard and sad to […]
Adrianna’s Birthday Party
15 middle schoolers will be descending upon our house for Adrianna’s 13th birthday party any minute now. The chaos and noise level is about to increase! Let the [board] games begin! We survived! Really though, it was nice getting to know some of her friends that we hadn’t met before. It was a great group […]
Farsi
Today’s win: recognizing a spoken word in Farsi (aka Persian).Khodahafez – Goodbye (or God be with you) Ø®Ùدا ØاÙÙظ I am having a hard time getting the kh sound down – it is a throaty sound that we don’t have in English. But baby steps. It made my day to recognize and understand the phrase […]