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There's a discussion on an e-mail list I'm a member of about screen time and I got thinking about this again. We don't really...

As I continue to travel this path the distinction between unschooler and non-unschooler seems less important. A couple of months ago we d...

Seventeen months ago we said goodbye to Musette Moose. She's a poseable stuffed moose. I sewed her a little polarfleece vest with a mapl...

I got up at 7:30, Chuck shortly after. Noah (8) was next up at about 8:45, followed by Fiona (21 months). I worked on the computer for a whi...

Yesterday we could see the snow falling on the mountains above us. The kids were lazy and aimless. I had lots of fussy errands to do and the...

We've lived in our little corner of the province for 10 years and this is the first year we've mushroomed. Back in the 1970's an...

There's a magic about the dark. Last night Noah had a birthday celebration. We had daytime and early-evening committments, but he want...

Lately Fiona's language has really taken off. "Cheese" is now "chizz", not "zzeee". There are several new ...

Last spring the currently-visiting Ontario grandmother gave us some cash in lieu of Christmas and birthday gifts for educational or recreati...

It's been a busy month. The local music summer school began a few days after I last wrote. Erin and Noah were registered as piano studen...

Noah has fairly decent note-reading skills but he will not access them while learning to play new piano pieces. Instead he will fumble aroun...

I have a friend with a baby due soon and want to be able to attend the birth. Since Chuck is on call so much, and my mom is away on and off ...

It wasn't like he had begged for a viola. I play both violin and viola and he had expressed no spontaneous interest in taking up the vio...

Not much of note on the way home. We spent a day in Spokane, did some shopping, went to Riverfront Park and did some kid-things (rode the 19...

We went to a nearby city (Moscow, ID) for the Farmers' Market because Stanley, one of Erin's instructors, was playing jazz violin fo...

The institute was awesome. Erin had 6-7 hours a day of instruction. She was the youngest in most of her classes by at least 2-3 years, so sh...

Arrived in Pullman, checked into the dorm (wonderful! a suite of three small bedrooms and a large living / kitchenette area and bathroom) an...

Did most of the southerly drive to get us into the US for our music workshop. Stopped to get a map of the area in the first town on the Amer...

We visited Fort Steele, a re-created 1898 town, and spent the better part of the day there despite an incredible downpour. Had a ride on a s...

We visited the Creston wetland wildlife preserve. Saw turtles and birds. Walked the boardwalk, hiked the perimeter of some marshes, looked a...