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quinn and i went to the pool several times this month, and he made some progress on learning to swim. the pool was almost empty and we had an hour each time to work on swimming skills. he is motivated to practice and a huge milestone was putting his ears in the water . . . → Read More: ~two months in the life of a lifelong learner~ playing games, gaming plays  2 comments  abundance, gratitude, lifelong learning, natural world, parenting  abundance, being a mama, books, coparenting, family, food, friends, games, grammy and grampy, gratitude, infinity, karate, life of fred, lifelong learning, love, math, math for fun and glory, music, nature, outside, parenting, pie, programming, reading, theatre camp 
(pronounced, “wow.”) just one month this time. still make tea.
this month in executive functioning… rich suggested getting quinn a watch, and he wore the one i ordered for him all weekend and gave us frequent reports: “it’s 5:36.” we’ll see if it helps with time awareness . . . → Read More: ~a month in the life of a lifelong learner~ the wau of quinn 2 comments abundance, gratitude, lifelong learning, parenting abundance, back yard, being a mama, celebration, coparenting, family, fibonacci, friends, gardening, gratitude, hexaflexagon, karate, lifelong learning, love, math, math for fun and glory, nature, parenting, pi, pokemon, science, screens as tools, wau, yu-gi-oh 
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watching the moon with quinn one night, we saw a dragon cloud overtake the moon, sliding up its nostril and eventually becoming its eye. though the moon was enfolded in wisps of cloud, the cloud was now illuminated from within. dragons are always . . . → Read More: ~two months in the life of a lifelong learner~ enfolded eggs part 2 4 comments abundance, gratitude, lifelong learning, natural world, parenting abundance, back yard, being a mama, celebration, character, coparenting, drawing, family, folding space time, food, friends, galaxies, gratitude, handcrafting, karate, love, math, math for fun and glory, middle school, music, outside, pancakes, parenting, programming, rainbow, tall ships 
camp boss informed me that comments were inadvertently closed on the previous lifelong learner post. i have updated it so commenting is back on, and can only assume wordpress is punishing me for my 5770-word verbosity. i have not reformed myself, in fact this post is split into parts because it got out of hand . . . → Read More: ~two months in the life of a lifelong learner~ enfolded eggs part 1 Comments are closed abundance, gratitude, lifelong learning, natural world, parenting abundance, being a mama, books, cardioids, cooking, drawing, eggs, enfolded, family, fibonacci, food, gratitude, handcrafting, hexaflexagon, karate, lifelong learning, love, math, math for fun and glory, music, nature, nerd metaphors, outside, parenting, pi, reading, science, snakes, spirals 
a long and winding hodge podge of learning and living that i have decided to stop editing and move on from… read at your own risk (warning! verbosity ahead!), and probably pour yourself a cup of tea first.
science fair! i had the privilege of being the . . . → Read More: ~two months in the life of a lifelong learner~ percolator Leave a comment abundance, gratitude, lifelong learning, natural world, parenting abundance, art, beach, being a mama, birthday, books, celebration, chess, cousins, cursive, drums, family, friends, grammy and grampy, gratitude, karate, lifelong learning, love, music, mythology, nature, new york, origami, outdoor school, outside, parenting, pi, programming, reading, science, time management 
lifelong holidays learning!
one saturday rich was working so i brought quinn to farmer’s market with me. i parked him in front of my display that i was building and had him put bundles of broccoli raab into a rainbow arch around the basket where the bell peppers would be going, and he . . . → Read More: ~two months in the life of a lifelong learner~ anthropomorphization of vegetables One comment abundance, gratitude, lifelong learning, natural world, parenting abundance, being a mama, celebration, christmas, computers, drums, family, farmer's market, gratitude, hawk, lifelong learning, love, moon, music, nature, origami, parenting, perfectionism, poppies, reading, screens as tools, sensory, tag, writing 
cue the soundtrack… the eleven by the grateful dead is the only song i know that has a time signature of eleven beats per measure! also, i liked that this version was recorded on 8-23-68, quinn’s half birthday, 50 years ago! if we add my age and his together right now, we get . . . → Read More: eleven ~ the time of returning 
when i was looking back through photos of quinn from 2010 for my previous lifelong learning post, which my hilarious husband said i should have titled two months to read, i found this little drummer boy… which seemed like a great way to start off this month of lifelong learning, during which quinn took . . . → Read More: ~a month in the life of a lifelong learner~ composer of his own destiny 
as summer days dwindled, quinn could be found alternately picking up books from two awesome series, the wings of fire by tui sutherland (a series about young dragons which he started years ago, but had a few recently published titles to catch up on) and gregor the overlander by suzanne collins. he spent . . . → Read More: ~two months in the life of a lifelong learner~ a new era 
we got to keep grammy and grampy for the longest period surrounding the wedding, which enabled quinn to have some one-on-one time with them after the rest of the crowd had ebbed. grampy and quinn played several games, including risk, the game of paleontology, and parcheesi.
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