Sometimes you just need a humor intermission. These are some quotes I’ve been collecting over the last year. Most of them come from the girls. I don’t need dessert…it’s not my business. A major learning theme this year is to worry about yourself (in terms of tattling, etc.) This is really hard for hypervigilant kids. […]
For this installment of {Voices}, I asked our oldest daughter to speak to issues with siblings and parents. Here is her recorded response in Amharic. (You can save the sound file to your computer by right clicking the link.) The roughly translated transcript is below: “It is hard to live with siblings that are biological […]
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We are slowly working our kids over their fear of animals. Note to self: look into animal therapy.
We’ve made an attempt to introduce many common, now American traditions. We always do corned beef and cabbage around St. Patrick’s Day. Somehow adding berbere to “make it taste good” just seems so wrong.
Our older kids have had limited exposure to art. So much so that they think art is some odd form of torture. I’ve been trying to incorporate an art lesson into every week that exposes them to a variety of art mediums. This week we painted our clay sculptures and explored oil pastels.
The Corkum Family in snowmen.
Who knew singing the timeline song could be so fun?
If you clean out your work area, you may just get motivated enough to do a project.