Instead of my standard intro + Youtube link, today’s mid-week music features a book review.
We bought Story of the Orchestra two weeks ago and my kids LOVE it. Especially my 5 year old Monkey.
The book includes a CD, and the book functions like a musical guided tour. First, chronologically through the composers – Vivaldi through [...]
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11 Nov
Mid-Week Music: Getting the Kids Hooked on Classical
21 Sep
Stitchin’ with the Kids
So, I had been saving this project for a rainy day – and boy howdy, has it been rainy in Tennessee! So after school I decided to let my antsy boys try a hand at some stitchin’:
This is a really easy project to do at home, and pretty inexpensive. You will need: burlap, which has [...]
30 Jul
Lessons Learned from the Beach
So, we’re back from Panama City Beach. Rolled back in Monday night, to be exact. Lessons learned:
1. Visiting family at the halfway point (Montgomery) was a very good idea. Boys loved playing with their (second) cousins!
2. I hit the party section at Hobby Lobby and did not regret it. Pinwheels and kaleidoscopes were VERY inexpensive [...]
21 Jul
Tic Tac Toe
So, with this upcoming trip I am trying to think of everything I can take to keep my kiddos occupied in the car. And I decided to use a classic:
Monkey got so mad at me because he says it looks like he’s losing.
We have a lot of craft foam from the lacing project, and [...]
19 Jul
Makin’ your own Lacin’ Cards
So, the boys have been watching me stitch from time to time. The other day, Monkey takes the shoe strings out of his shoe (while we were in the car) and starts “stitching” them together with his “needle” (the lace).
When we got home, he wanted to get his other shoes and his brother’s shoes [...]
31 Oct
Commitment to Parody
Found this little gem at the end of the Veggie Tales’ Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything. Enjoy.
31 Oct
Paper Flowers
Happy Halloween, ya’ll! I hope everyone is having a good one. We hit a local trick-or-treat today and the boys already have a lot of candy loot.
For Spanish class this week I had big plans; unfortunately, Monkey had a 104F fever that thwarted – or postponed – my plans. In Mexico, instead of celebrating Halloween [...]
13 Jul
It all started out so simple…
Last month signups for fall soccer began in our small town. We asked Monkey if he wanted to play – a big “YES” was the reply – so we got him signed up. BHE did the signup and at the time, signed up to assist. He did this as much to be involved as to [...]
3 Jul
I had a date tonight…
with the Monkey. We went to see Wall*E. I don’t know if you’ve read any of the reviews, but ya’ll it’s really good. Really really good. It’s funny for the kids (and adults) but really has a heart to it. Pixar outdid themselves this time. I can always count on Pixar to deliver an awesome [...]
17 Jun
Accentuate the Positive
I say the above not so much as advice to you, my dear reader (how many of you are there, anyway? Two?), but as advice to myself.
Today was one of those days with the boys. You say up, they say down. You say “Please don’t dump out all the crayons”, they look you straight in [...]
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