on our way out of the keys, we stopped at shell world, where anna picked out one million different shells to bring back to her personal hoard of memorabilia, and isaac and hazel spent their money on overpriced tourist candy. back on the mainland, our first stop was to head back over to robert is […]
friends
febz. 2020.

i think we can all agree at this point, that if i’m working on my february post on the last day of march, that’s a good pace for me. so here goes. the random life and times of the lidbom kids during the last month before the apocalypse happened. first up. the superbowl. a tom […]
mardi gras like a homeschooler.

every since our visit to new orleans (here and here) while on our epic road trip that is no more, we have a spot in our heart for mardi gras. this year, at our co-op, we have met some families who hail from the new orleans area, and managed to get an invite to a […]
e’s daniel tiger birthday.

well. since i’m in coronavirus quarantine, it seems like a good time to catch up my blog for the last two months. in february, one of our new little friends celebrated her second birthday. i met e’s mom at a wild and free homeschool event, discovered she was from western-ish new york, and we became […]
isaac the teenager’s birthday party.

while we were in charleston, this baby turned thirteen. THIRTEEN. a teenager. it’s hard to believe it really. he was a trooper about spending his actual birthday doing charleston touristy things, with the promise that we would have a proper birthday party the following weekend. but before i get to that. a bit about the […]
GSO science center with BFF.

hazel has been requesting a playdate with her best pal from co-op (lochlyn) for forever. the plague of winter break prevented her mom and i from pulling it together, but finally we were able to squeeze in a day at the greensboro science center together. the skies looked ominous, so we opted to do as […]
december 2019 miscellany.

firstly. let me go ahead and throw this out there. this post is disorganized and all over the place. i did my best to group like activities and such. but mostly, it’s just 100% random. but that’s sort of how our december was, i suppose. our first order of business in december was procuring a […]
and then the crazel was six.

after thanksgiving, the next major event in the lidbom calendar is the birthday of one hazel grace lidbom. somehow she’s already six. the crazelnut is still super hilarious, always trying to be the class clown of the family. she’s super smart and now loves to read. she is snuggly, sweet, and generous, and i’m told […]
november, randomness.

after a month filled with exciting travel in october, november was pretty chill. even though it’s not quite the same as fall in western new york, it’s still my favorite season in north carolina. cooler temps. pumpkin themed foods. upcoming holidays. falling leaves. fewer bugs. you get the idea. here’s how our november went. we […]
some november field trips.

one day, we were at the library, picking out books, looking up books to put on hold, guessing the number of pieces in the candy jar, when our friendly librarian told us that someone had just returned the library’s pass to the local science museum. we jumped at the chance to check it out for […]