right? I was not too surprised at some of the backlash that I saw to Earth Day. No, these are not people that hate the earth, these are the ones that love it and think that *every day* should be Earth Day, so they don’t want to do anything special. There’s a little more to…
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Cooking Fun Results
The Rice Krispie treats, once cut up but before they were devoured. Not sure that I see skirts and shirts, but …
Behind the Scenes
Here’s what our house looked like as we prepared for taping Episode #1 on Sunday:
gbkZoo videocast Episode #1
The GBKids have created their first videocast! This episode includes Cooking Fun, Kindie Buzz, Random Dance Scene and Fan Mail. Stay tuned for future episodes!
Welcome to gbkZoo!
The girls love to make movies, so we are creating a new videocast. We’ll see how well we can keep it up, but stay tuned for the first episode coming up soon. We’ve been filming like mad. I think we’ll start with shorter than ten minute episodes. Any longer than that and I think we’ll…
Pine Lake Easter Egg Hunt
While planning our trips to DC, the girls were insistent that we not head to DC until we had participated in the Pine Lake Easter Egg Hunt. So we booked plane tickets to head up to DC in the afternoon AFTER the hunt. Even though we had stayed up to after midnight the night before…
Happy Birthday, Grandma!
On Saturday, the girls and I got up early and headed to the airport in the rain for our 8:40 flight. The weather was bad, but not bad enough to delay the flight. The plane was tiny, so Camille had to sit in the row ahead of Chloe and me. There was a medical emergency…
St. Patrick’s Day
As the “religious conservatives” that I know don’t celebrate Halloween, the “pagans” don’t celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. At our house, we take any excuse to have a little party. St. Patrick’s Day for us is not about casting the “snakes” from Ireland, but instead a celebration of Ireland, pagan roots and all. Last Friday, we…
Tiny Treats
Sunday and Monday at the cabin, the girls made lots of “Tiny Treats”! A few weeks ago, Camille bought the book Tiny Treats at the Barnes and Noble in Georgetown. She’s made a couple of the things, but this week, she created a menu, a spreadsheet and a shopping list. Well, first they made the…
Fairies in the Garden
After years of wanting to go, I finally made it to Oakhurst Community Garden this past Friday. The girls have been a couple of times, and it sounded like the kind of place I would just love. And I do love it. I just wish it were a whole lot closer, perhaps right in Pine…
snow!
Yes, it really did snow here in Georgia! Around noon yesterday (that would be March 1st!), it started to snow, and kept snowing all afternoon. It even THUNDERSNOWED! Yes, it was thundering while snowing. I’d guess that we ended up with about three inches of snow on the ground. The snow even stuck to the…
I’m On Board Now
Yesterday I woke as an IBMer. (Coincidentally, I was actually wearing a blue striped nightshirt!) As when the possibility of ILOG being acquired by IBM emerged, I have continued mixed feelings about my employer change. ILOG was a wonderful company to work for. I started there back in 1997, not very long after I defended…
Chinese New Year
Like last year, the girls did a few activities for Chinese New Year. As we are planning to have a potluck (if you read my blog, consider yourself invited) on Friday night with a Chinese New Year theme, we will probably end up doing all these crafts, along with the ones from last year, again…
National Apricot Day
On all the calendar sites and many blogs, January 9th is “National Apricot Day”. I have searched, but not yet found a true source for this holiday. Apricots aren’t in season for a few more months, so it seems a bit strange… I’ve been feeling a bit out of touch at home because of all…
Afternoon Fun
Camille and Chloe both, miraculously, finished their homeschooling tasks before dinner yesterday. Usually, they tend to drag their feet, but our new schedule is helping a bit… It was too chilly for them to want to stay out long, their friend across the street had homework to do and I wanted to cook dinner. What…
New Year’s Resolutions
(Repost from last year New Year’s Resolutions. However, the 101st item is to stick with it the list this time. I’ve edited my list from last year to make it a little more reasonable.) Made your resolution yet? No? Then how about this? 101 Things in 1001 Days: The Mission:Complete 101 preset tasks in a…
New Year’s Eve
The cabin is our New Years’ Eve gathering spot. Phil, Barbara, Rob, Camille, Chloe and I gather to play outdoors and in as well as have a second Christmas. This year we are joined by the hissing cousins: our kity Gazoo and Suze’s cats (who live with Phil and Barbara) Q-Tip and Sadie. After our…
Geocaching
During this short break, Rob decided to work on ripping huge stacks of CDs on his computer, so he can listen to a greater variety of his music than he has in a long time. I worked on creating the 2009 version of our family website and catching up on some other journaling tasks. I…
What was the biggest adventure of your past year?
Our biggest family adventure was our trip to Japan in the early summer. The customs, food and language are so very different from our own that it took patience and attention to find our way around and see the sights. We had some difficulties with the foreigness, unfortunately. Chloe had a fever and I couldn’t…
Happy Christmas All!
Monday the girls and I flew back from DC. While the airport was fire marshall scary, checking in and going through security was easy-peasy. We boarded on time and were set to go, but the plane wasn’t. The navigation system wasn’t responding to being rebooted, so we had to get off the plane and wait…