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~3-23 to 4-23~ for spring break we had no big plans other than reconnecting a bit with each other. spring break breakdown: monday q went to work with me; listening to lemony snicket audio again; also a sparkle stories installment of the “how to be super” series he hasn’t listened to yet . . . → Read More: ~a month in the life of a lifelong learner~ scutoid cake, pancakes, and warm butter tortillas 
~february 23 through march 23~
The day after quinn’s birthday, as soon as sleepover friends went home we set out for a visit to see/meet our new pancake w. rich had met her on the day she was born, but this would be quinn’s and my first . . . → Read More: ~a month in the life of a lifelong learner~ smuggle in a dinosaur 
This past year has been very transitional for Quinn and for me as a parent. At age ten when he began fifth grade, he was one of the big kids in school. For Christmas I gave him practical, useful gifts – a music stand, a hanger to hold his karate belts. In June, I gathered . . . → Read More: ~summer shorts~ weaving childhood 
~1-23-19 to 2-23-19~
winter wonderings Quinn took three classes at Winter Wonderings at OSU this year, and finally got to enroll in one of the Minecraft modules. He also took manual chess programming and Oregon geology. Rich drove him to his class one Saturday while I . . . → Read More: ~a month in the life of a lifelong learner~ unrivaled unraveling  Leave a comment  abundance, gratitude, hippie glop gourmet, lifelong learning, parenting  abundance, band, being a mama, birthday, books, differently wired, executive function skills, family, geometry, gifted, karate, learning styles, lifelong learning, love, math, music, noodles, parenting, processing speed, reading, self advocacy, sensory, tag 
a scrap of green t-shirt sleeve, followed by the brim of a floppy, khaki hat wobble out from near the front of the line of campers, the one glimpse i’ve caught of quinn on his very first sleepaway camp experience. the t.a. and videographer is bringing up the rear behind the six campers attending . . . → Read More: ~summer shorts~ striking out 
~12-23-18 to 1-23-19~ we had family visiting on christmas eve. rich’s mom, daughter and son-in-law came, and his mom made dinner for us all. it was fun to impart messages of non-worry and support to my pregnant step-daughter, and encourage her to refrain from consulting the dreaded google about that sore hip or . . . → Read More: ~a month in the life of a lifelong learner~ more cowbell 
ridiculously verbose! you have been warned! ~covering 11-23-18 to 12-23-18~ i only had quinn for one week plus a partial weekend of this time period, because of trade negotiations over winter break. the next month, i would have him for 3 out of 4 weeks. i ended up having a lot . . . → Read More: ~a month in the life of a lifelong learner~ raven on the riverbank One comment abundance, gratitude, lifelong learning, parenting abundance, asynchrony, back yard, being a mama, books, coparenting, differently wired, executive function skills, family, gifted, gratitude, lifelong learning, love, music, nature, overthinking, parenting, poppies, raven, reading, science, tag, unconditional parenting, verbosity 
twelve is a sublime number, a number that has a perfect number of divisors, and the sum of its divisors is also a perfect number. there are six divisors of twelve (1,2,3,4,6,12) and 6 is perfect; adding 1+2+3+4+6+12 = 28, which is another perfect number; this double perfectionism defines twelve as a sublime number. something . . . → Read More: twelve is sublime! 
on my way to my first day back at work after the recent government shutdown, i mused that i was thinking a month of gratitude posts might be in order for february. my bff challenged me to go for it, and here we are! 28 days of gratitude it is!
28 days of . . . → Read More: thankful thursday ~ more light 
~covering 10-23-18 to 11-23-18~ social learning the first middle school dance! he was so quull. he decided to wear his owl jacket with jeans and sneakers. legolas went with another friend, and quinn was hoping aragorn and gimli would go, but they didn’t. he ended up hanging out with two other boys . . . → Read More: ~a month in the life of a lifelong learner~ sierpenski’s rubik’s tetrahedron |
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