Monthly Archives: January 2010

a day of advancements

20 January 2010

I’ve been trying to find ways to get my kids to write.
I remember as an elementary-aged girl, I would write and write and write.  In second grade I got to write my first book report, in which I mostly rewrote the whole book.  I remember this clearly.  The book was, “A Pony for the Winter,” [...]

chalkboard

20 January 2010

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Last week I transformed a corner of my house.  Where previously there had been cluttered shelves and a large painting of daffodils in the snow, there is now a chalkboard:

This has been very useful in organizing our daily activities and also keeping track of what’s going on with everybody.  There’s a calendar on the facing [...]

work in progess #4

10 January 2010

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rewriting the same old story

8 January 2010

My husband brought something to my attention the other day.
“Look at your tag cloud on your website,” he said. “You can see what get’s your energy. Renee and McKinley are in huge letters, followed by Nature Reveries, Garden, and then Studio.”
We are talking about stories–how the stories we tell ourselves have a [...]

the good life: cookies and a warm studio

6 January 2010

Dinner tonight was, well, hardly.  We ate a lot of cookies first. Then Renee did do a bang up job on some devilled eggs (twenty-four to be precise).  And we had all eaten some of  Alex’s  cabbage potato stew earlier, for a perfect late-afternoon-early-dinner.   So there was plenty to eat, but we didn’t all [...]

Screw the cold, I’ve got tincture

5 January 2010

The free-range chickens are no more.  We lost three in as many days, and first blamed it on Alex’s new puppy, but since she muzzled him and the chickens were still showing up dead, their mortality is no doubt from the cold.   So we rounded them up today and closed up the coop.  They are [...]

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