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From the monthly archives:

October 2008

conversation while cooking dinner

October 28, 2008

Rio: I am smaller than seven Me: yep. How many years until you turn seven? Rio: I dunno. Me: Do you want to use your counting beads* to figure it? It’s very easy. Rio: No. a moment passes while I wipe down a counter and wonder what to do next. Let it go? Push the [...]

Tagged as: homeschooling, rio

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green update

October 25, 2008

A few months ago I took this quiz. I was diaspointed, back in April, to find out that we would need 5 earths to sustain my lifestyle. Since then I have: – given up driving – given up shopping at the grocery store – switched to biodiesel to heat my house – abstained from buying [...]

Tagged as: green, social justice

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fractal food

October 25, 2008

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } fractal food, originally uploaded by MzMuze. Our farm share is full of art!

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Rio up on the hoop at circus practice

October 25, 2008

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Rio up on the hoop at circus practice, originally uploaded by MzMuze.

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Rio's math cards

October 25, 2008

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Rio’s math cards, originally uploaded by MzMuze.

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October 24, 2008

Rio and I are making a math game which requires us to have fifty similar small objects. They could be anything – little rocks, marbles, shells, acorns, large beads. They should have no sharp edges and fit well in the hand of a small child. Before I go out to the craft store and add [...]

Tagged as: homeschooling

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I win at life

October 23, 2008

Today came home from work around 5. We hung out for twenty minutes, and as we started planning dinner, I realized I’d forgotten to pick up our farm share. So I threw the baby in the trailer and biked over to Fresh Pond to get it. We made it there just in time, and got [...]

Tagged as: bike, food, homeschooling, house project

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playground revelation

October 20, 2008

Leaving the zoo today, Rio engaged in some civil disobedience. On the way in, we’d passed a playground she wanted to play at. We told her no, we needed to get to the gorilla house to meet the rest of our party, but we could play there on the way out. On the way out, [...]

Tagged as: parenting, rio

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homeschooling?

October 4, 2008

I went to my first homeschooling meetup today, a playgroup for preschool age homeschoolers. There were about half a dozen families at this event, and they were all lovely. Rio had a blast with the kids, and the moms were very welcoming toward me. Curiously, the dominant topic of conversation among the moms in this [...]

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my kids are so cute!

October 4, 2008

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