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It may take more years of this practice before I can truly feel thankful for darkness, or the meltdown it initiates in me. Simmering in my slow cooker today, I’m grateful for memories of summer, excellent walks with my husband, and butterflies. . . . → Read More: ~thankful thursday~ shadows and butterflies  One comment  abundance, gratitude, lifelong learning, natural world, parenting  abundance, band, being a mama, books, butterflies, executive function skills, family, gratitude, lifelong learning, light, love, monarchs, music, nana, nature, nourish, ocean, outside, parenting, photography, self care, shadows, sunset, thankful thursday, webs 
In quinn’s theatre camp performance this year, he was a battle-weary nutcracker toy who came to life with his gang of other animated toys (a ballerina on whom he had a crush, a teddy bear who liked to give him hugs when he would have war flashbacks, and a jack in the box) who all together came to life to try and save the toy shop from the evils of online shopping. . . . → Read More: ~a month in the life of a lifelong learner~ resilience and reciprocity 
paleontology camp! there was quite a bit of sand spilling out of the lint trap in the dryer as i restarted the bulging load of size 14 clothing for another cycle. Every pair of underwear but the two extras were worn; all socks; all shirts and pants; when the second batch . . . → Read More: ~a month in the life of a lifelong learner~ quercus quetzalcoatlus 2 comments abundance, gratitude, lifelong learning, natural world, parenting abundance, beach, being a mama, fossils, gratitude, hiking, karate, lifelong learning, love, music, nature, ocean, oregon country fair, outside, paleontology, paleontology camp, parenting, plants, reading, science, subtitles, swim, tidepooling 
camp boss verbosity warning: please excuse the verbosity of this end-of-schoolyear/start-of-summer month of lifelong learning and grab a cuppa! pizza rolls and rubik’s cubes quinn and i solved his christmas stocking rubik’s cube this month! He is pictured showing the initial progress just after the first step of solving one side (the green . . . → Read More: ~a month in the life of a lifelong learner~ connections, finding eggs in unusual places, and the oxford comma 3 comments abundance, gratitude, lifelong learning, natural world, parenting abundance, back yard, beach, being a mama, books, connection, family, gifted, grammy and grampy, gratitude, hiking, intensity, karate, lifelong learning, love, marching band, music, nature, ocean, outside, paleontology camp, parenting, reading, tidepooling 
~4-23 to 5-23~
we visited baby pancake w and quinn was great with her. she woke up from a nap sooner than expected and i had handed her over to him but she had started fussing in his arms, so i went to reach out and take . . . → Read More: ~a month in the life of a lifelong learner~ playing in the band 
~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 
~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 
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 
~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 
but now it’s time to sing the last verse of the song for this year. the part of the song where it all comes together metaphorically and the sound waves ripple through the air to touch your heart, and though it has the same melody as before, there are several strains of harmony woven in now, and when you get to the chorus, you reach down to your toes to send the last few notes up a third or a fifth or an octave. you take it higher, you take it on home. you know, that part of the song. . . . → Read More: ~thankful thursday~ in which we sing the last verse |
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