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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  Comments are closed  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 
~rainbow mondays~ a splash of color on monday a photo study documenting the colors of the spectrum: the balance points between light reflected and light absorbed other posts you . . . → Read More: ~rainbow mondays~ winter wishes, spring sunbeams 4 comments abundance, gratitude, natural world, parenting, rainbow mondays abundance, back yard, being a mama, camp boss, cherry blossoms, family, flowers, gardening, gratitude, hummingbirds, light, love, nature, outside, pancakes, parenting, photography, plants, rainbow mondays, self care, spirals, spring, sunshine, tall ships, trillium 
long after today, i predict that the fragrance of lemongrass will bring me back to taking quinn to buy his first deoderant and my concurrent realization that i should really try to curtail my telling of such stories in public. and yet, i want to remember his assessment that, “i expected it not to be . . . → Read More: embarrassing 
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 
it’s been a whirlwind week of fun with family in new york, and i have the rainbow to prove it. here is one of quinn’s hand-crafted birthday decorations, a rainbow octahedron, complete with barney the origami allosaurus, hanging in the rew kitchen! we’ll start with white, the most abundant color in this . . . → Read More: ~rainbow mondays~ snow colors 
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 
11/24/17 ~30 days of gratitude~ day 24 i am thankful for being able to spend this past week with my boy! 11/25/17 ~30 days of gratitude~ day 25 i am thankful for babies, new blessings to shower love upon. 11/26/17 ~30 days of gratitude~ day 26 i am thankful for john denver and . . . → Read More: ~thankful thursday~ the slightly belated conclusion 
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.
. . . → Read More: ~a month in the life of a lifelong learner~ in the path of totality |
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