TLG is now officially Done With Diapers. We don’t have much of a potty training system. Mostly we just wait until they are ready, and wildly applaud any successes.
My big book order arrived, and I have been reading, reading, reading. We’re all sick now, too.
Our car needed multiple repairs this month, and [...]
For all the different social circles that we traverse around here, we know of only one other homeschooling family. So everyone assumes that OLC either is going, or will soon be going, to school, and this leads to occasional awkwardness.
I was thinking back on my own schooling; I went to public school and my [...]
…I was thinking about these words from a Waterdeep song a lot (though I don’t actually know the song title or which album it is on):
Jesus, I’m a sucker
I wish I’d believed less of the lies
Did anything I thought I knew
Turn out to be true?
‘Cause baby boys and little toys are all that
I see anymore
And [...]
In physics, there is the Three Body Problem–trying to determine the motion of three objects that are exerting gravitational effects on each other. The “Two Body Problem” is the problem of finding jobs for both members of a physicist couple in the same geographical area. The Two Artists Problem is the problem of [...]
The holiday busyness made me defer all my projects that I had been thinking about. So I have been working on a lot of things, the past couple of weeks.
First, I redid the lampshade for my floor lamp, which was starting to fall apart. I took off the trim and fabric, retaped the [...]
The second sentence of this article is hilariously untrue:
In fact, the average cost of raising a child to age 17 is over $150,000 per year.
That cost is the total estimated birth-to-age-eighteen cost, probably from the USDA’s Cost of Raising a Child calculations, not the actual annual cost, thank goodness.
The rest of the article [...]
These are my top recommendations for unusual, yet highly practical, baby shower gifts:
1. Earplugs. Even the happiest babies with the most loving parents are sometimes inconsolable. Mothers’ ears have so much to listen for, that sometimes the auditory processing part of the brain just gets tired.
2. Lobby broom and a standing [...]
I came across this Pioneer Press article, about “managed instruction” in St. Paul schools, which nicely highlights many of the main points of The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America (managed instruction basically means teaching straight from a script; St. Paul is trying to even out teaching levels across a huge school district):
“There was a sense [...]
We’ve had another crazy, crazy week, crowned with MFH getting another round of viruses on his computer, and we had to do a big Advent calendar catch-up on Friday, because we were several days behind.
It is really starting to grieve me that we are spending our fourth Christmas in an apartment complex that doesn’t [...]
Rixa:
When people joke about how parents of newborns are sleep-deprived, I just laugh. For me, the first 6 months are so much more restful than the next 6 months. Newborns just nurse and sleep, nurse and sleep. It’s when they start rolling around and crawling and standing up that their sleep–and consequently mine–goes to pot. [...]