We’ll be doing a little Winter Solstice unit tomorrow. School on a the weekend! Hopefully it’ll be so fun they won’t know that they’re learning. I have a book called The Shortest Day: Celebrating the Winter Solstice. This is really a wonderful little book, in simple but engaging ways it explains the solstice. It tells [...]
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Congratulations to #115: Bobby C. They said: I believe my grandaughter would really love those Lilac Frogs. AND she subscribed! That’s a hard workin’ grandparent! I’ll be getting a hold of you, if you don’t get a hold of me first! I hear emailing under the influence of fatigue and cold medicine is right up [...]
In this post, I talk about Christmas cheer (if cheer sounds like swearing that would make a sailor blush), food poisoning, snow, firewood, frozen pipes, living like it’s 1908 not 2008, washing my hair like I’m in Little House on the Prairie, mice in the kitchen sink, and my fragile, fragile mental state.
While sick at my mama’s house on Saturday, I curled up in bed and wanted to watch a holiday movie with my daughter. Some wacky show about a girl (Melissa Joan Hart, who I LOVE) who kidnaps a stranger (Mario Lopez) to pretend that he’s her boyfriend for Christmas weekend with her parents. It was [...]
