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~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 
~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 
other posts you may enjoy:~a month of unschool~ how did paul revere text?~rainbow mondays~ new york fall color~a month in the life of a lifelong learner~ take a picture of it instead~black and white wednesday~ the least of . . . → Read More: ~black and white wednesday~ peaceful love 
we had an eventful weekend of pressing apple cider and playing with friends on saturday, and then attending a very exciting gender reveal party for quinn’s step-niece! he has been elected as future babysitter already for this new bundle of joy, coming to our family in march. once he handed in his historical . . . → Read More: ~a month in the life of a lifelong learner~ math goblins 2 comments abundance, gratitude, lifelong learning, natural world, parenting abundance, beach, being a mama, books, dungeons and dragons, emotions, family, gratitude, haiku, history, homework, karate, life of fred, lifelong learning, logic, love, math, parenting, play, poetry, pokemon, reading, theatre 
~august 23 – setpember 23, 2018~
i picked quinn up from his dad’s, and received the tour of his self-built kayak, including the original concept drawing, the official plan drawings of the eleven, and the 11-foot-long boat itself! quinn explained the parts he did himself, including drawing . . . → Read More: ~a month in the life of a lifelong learner~ middle school debut 2 comments abundance, gratitude, lifelong learning, natural world, parenting abundance, advice about girls, algebra, asynchrony, being a mama, boats, books, coparenting, family, food, grammy and grampy, gratitude, intensity, karate, life of fred, love, math, music, outside, parenting, pomegranates, poppy, pythagorean theorem, reading, science, scutoids, shirt on backwards 
over time, i have filled in gaps in my blog, and the final frontier that has been awaiting its day is the time between quinn’s third and fourth birthdays. i established the blog just after he turned 3, but was not posting thorough updates again until just before he turned 4, when i posted the . . . → Read More: archive update ~ quinn age 3 ~ haul away on the one unbroken line 
11/23/18 ~30 days of gratitude~ day 23 today i am grateful for a full day to relax and cook only with my microwave.
11/24/18 ~30 days of gratitude~ day 24 i am grateful for color; the rainbow veggies of market, the orange and yellow leaves of the vine maples, the red violet of . . . → Read More: ~thankful thursday~ in which we sing the last verse 
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 
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 |
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