NO we did not finish reading it aloud before seeing the play. But I think it’s for the better. They loved this so much it will bring new life and perspective to the end of the book for them. And those hours are so precious to us as a family. At least someone should like…
Category: field trips
marvel: SPRING BREAK EDITION
it was pretty amazing. i caught the fever. this really kinda killed me: naturally, a favorite… thanks to chris and bruce for making the first day of spring break a big colorful fun one! not all heroes wear capes but i think most of them wear antiperspirant.
one day you’re on a very pitched roof,
The next you’re the back half of a giant tardigrade. We’re having a semi-spring break week or two — because we never really take breaks, even at Christmas — and these are two kids looking for the extra hunkering down of Home. So reading out loud, rockstars-in-our-living-room YouTube time, getting a pizza or Popeye’s… and…
testing testing… our mojo
This afternoon right before Chris and Bruce came to hang out we we shot this video (during which I talked), and then the separate mp4 file to use as a voice over. We wanted to make sure we could do a voice-over manually, as it could be necessary in a project we are going to…
asperger’s are us/murder in the house
Another Friday night of echoing isolation — packed like sardines in Keren’s car, with our friend Mike too on the way back — to see our friends Asperger’s Are Us perform at PhilaMOCA. C and B can NOT use this event for their special PhilaMOCA-themed memoir “ And We Were The Only Kids There”, because…
climate change school walk-out
We “walked out” in the sense that Meg came by in a Lyft and we got in. Up at Dilworth Plaza, we ran into two School of Rock kids, and a kid they knew from LARPing/Fringe Festival, so B and C were convinced they were at a legitimate happening. They had watched Greta Thunberg’s TED…
“ancient egypt from discovery to display” and “harriet tubman: demon slayer”
We squeezed in a good bit of Black History Month stuff in one whirlwind Saturday, starting with the brand new exhibit at the Penn Museum. Trips like this used to inevitably lead to a write-up in the kids’ school journals, but I’m not asking for that anymore; I think it’s affecting the purposes they think…
claudia’s pre-birthday mythic creatures anti-party
This is (will be!) Claudia’s third homeschooling birthday, on the 28th. But the opening for the “Mythic Creatures” exhibit at the Academy of Natural Sciences was this weekend — and so she took some friends. We took the subway up. Prior to going into Mythic Creatures, we attended the live animal auditorium show, where Claude…
various (incomplete)
I know this kid who suddenly had a passionate desire to see the water bill be lower than it’s ever been. We talked to our neighbors and ours is, and has for years, been ridiculous compared to the friends around us. Béla’s very vested in this and he suggested that the fact that the third…
spring rolls (eventually)
We hear that the the groundhog did not see his shadow today and we will have an early spring. After a week of a household cold, and incredibly cold temperatures, it was nice to have an upturn for my birthday — which we began early last night just as an insurance policy, with a lot…
the lightning thief
Well, pictures are worth a lot of words with this kind of thing. Suffice it to say I didn’t know there WAS a Percy Jackson musical, or that it was ending its run in Philly soon, and well, thank you Tucker, because his birthday is tomorrow and this was more or less his birthday gift…
mary, queen of scots
While still behind on the production schedule for the zines for our Capstone Projects, we did write in a good bit of wiggle room for that. And, while Béla begins studying Benny Hill, Claudia has moved onto Elizabeth Tudor. She watched both Cate Blanchett films (one during a day we all had a cold and…
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