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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 
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! 
~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:~this moment~ tidepool ephemeralaround the farm~this moment~ ducks in a row~a month of unschool~ a mile . . . → 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 
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 
11/16/18 ~30 days of gratitude~ day 16 “time is but the stream i go a-fishing in. i drink at it; but while i drink i see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.” ~henry david thoreau not that long ago, i was reading buoy . . . → Read More: ~thankful thursday~ it’s working 
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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