we kicked off january 2020 fighting a stupid nasty cough and cold. there were a lot of fluids and drugs and napping people. it was meh. eventually we were all on the mend and regular old life resumed. lots of lounging around. arts and crafts. games. you know. randomness. for christmas, my mom got me […]
school
public school dropouts.
after a long few first months at school, derek and i and the kids decided that we would begin homeschooling. originally, the plan was to wait until christmas break, but the more we thought about it, we just didn’t see the point in waiting it out for no actual reason, so the tuesday before thanksgiving […]
november miscellany.
here’s my month installment of random happenings. i still have to go back and write a thanksgiving-ish post. and a post about the latest development in our lives. in due time. in due time. for now. a quick run through my favorite month of the year. 🙂 lego lab at the library with josiah. isaac’s […]
anna’s kindergarten halloween party.
anna’s class had a fun halloween party last friday. i didn’t take many pics, but there were other mom photographers in the class, so i stole a bunch of pics of theannababy from the class website. and i just made an executive decision not to caption them. so. here you go: the. end. (i’m all […]
busy october. apparently.
excluding pics of our trip to NY, two field trips, anna’s class halloween party and actual halloween, i still managed to find 45 pictures of october happenings. and i totally could have had more. it was a fun month, i guess. of course like seven of them are hazel eating a donut. oops. here we […]
presentations and field trips. (ike).
isaac has had a busy year so far. there are a lot of activities in his little nerd program. last week, he had a “book brag” and a field trip. here are their stories. firstly, the book brag. each month, the kids do a sort of book report with a twist. the first one was […]
anna’s first field trip.
last week. i had the opportunity to go with annababy’s kindergarten to lazy 5 ranch. the kids rode the bus and the parents met at the ranch. upon arrival, anna determined that she was hungry and was quite grumpy and not interested in walking around and looking at cool animals. we did manage to trick […]
september.
man. i really really am doing a terrible job at blogging. not that i think anyone is actually reading this. so, mostly i’m talking to future me and the kids. i had every intention of getting a september blog up and posted before we took a big trip to ny, so that right now, i […]
a boring august recap.
the second half of summer flew past in a flash. i hit up some consignment sales for clothes for the annababy, who can still squeeze into 4t clothes, but they are quite short.  i took her with me, and wound up purchasing a darth vader costume, which she insisted on wearing everywhere, much to the amusement […]
the first day of school.
on monday, the summer came screeching to a halt, and the two oldest lid kids had their first day of school. a new school. isaac tested into the HAG (highly academically gifted) program, which is only at two schools in our system. fortunately, it’s only about 6 minutes away from where we live. anyhow, anna […]