creativity.
While my “Create” year isn’t scheduled until 2016, that doesn’t mean that I can’t start now, right? Creating might not be my focus for 2015 and thus not my top priority, but I’m going to open myself up to creating already. I’ve held myself back for so long because “I’m not good enough.” But to
python adventures.
With nothing pressing at work and most of my coworkers out for an extended winter break, I thought that maybe I would tackle an interesting project. Of the many ideas I came up with, I decided that getting started with learning Python might be a nice challenge. Step 1. Find a good tutorial. I found
brain training.
I like to believe that I used to be smart. I always did well in school and completed my doctorate at age 25. But then something happened. Maybe it was a serious case of the so-called “mommy-brain”. Or too much multi-tasking to keep up with being a homeschooling, traveling, working mom. Or too little time
overwhelmed
If you’ve been following along with my Happiness Project, which I restarted again almost a year ago, the main focus for this year (though it wasn’t at first) is to SIMPLIFY and PREPARE. As I’ve discussed before, I have had a decade or more of feeling as though “I don’t have time for this!” whatever
chloe: book festival introducer
Chloe had the honor of introducing Tony DiTerlizzi on the Children’s Stage at the Decatur Book Festival this weekend. When we went up to Tony to talk to him beforehand, he asked if we lived nearby. I pointed at the building behind him and said “Yup, in that building right there!” But then went on
poetry slam for chloe
Not Camille is interested in the language arts, Chloe is too. A few years back, Chloe decided to enter the LEAF poetry slam. As it was for teens, she was asked to be the “calibration poet”. Since then, she’s gotten more interested in writing poems for poetry slams, and this spring tried out for her
creative writing award for camille
Camille’s first year of school is almost at a close. While she has faced challenges in moving from homeschooling to public schooling, she’s managed to find her way and learn. Not only has she been successful in her classes, she’s been able to thrive! Last night, she was invited to the SGA Awards Ceremony, where
hairspray!
One of the (many) reasons that we decided for Camille to head off to school this year after years of homeschooling was to have a chance to participate in more extracurricular activities. Soon after the start of the school year, she joined the drama club and then the crew of the spring production, assisting with
summer passport 2013: wrap-up
It is now closer to Summer 2014 than Summer 2013, so it is high time that we complete our summer 2013 passport project! To recap, we started out by creating a list of 67 activities, one for each day of summer, that we thought would be fun to do during the summer and by buying
go fly a kite.
that’s what I said. and that’s what she did today. At the start of the summer, I made us a long list of fun things that we might like to do this summer. While we didn’t do everything on the list, we gave it the ole college try. The list helped me convince all of
Georgia: Moving Forward
When I took on our Georgia History Project a year ago, I thought it would be a year long project for us to study the history of Georgia. A year later and we still are pre-Civil War in our explorations. But that’s ok. We’ve studied the Native Americans quite deeply and have been to many
Georgia: Funk Heritage Center
Continuing with our field trips related to our Georgia history studies, we headed to the Funk Heritage Center while we were at the cabin last weekend. We found a lovely museum with exhibits on the area’s Native Americans. We also enjoyed the HUGE and artistically displayed exhibit of tools. The hike down to the Appalachian
Georgia: Civil War and Reconstruction (1840-1917)
Antebellum: Antebellum Plantation at Stone Mountain The Antebellum Plantation at Stone Mountain Park is a collection of original buildings from around the State of Georgia, built between 1783 and 1875. Each structure was moved from its original site and carefully restored to preserve its authenticity and historical value. Westville in Lumpkin Georgia’s 1850s Living History
learning: cartography
Google Maps is rolling out new mapping applications. I’ve said it before, and I’m sure I’ll say it again. I’m a huge fan of maps. I loe when I can spend hours examining maps. I love seeing the evolution of maps of an area. I love trying to match up features of maps. I love
summer passport 2013: week 4
This week, we completed only *five* more of our summer passport activities. So now, if we were doing a daily tally, I think we are behind by three activities. Still do-able. Plus, we’ve edited the list a bit to add in some things that we really want to do, replacing things that maybe weren’t so
summer passport 2013: week 3
This week, we completed only *six* more of our summer passport activities. Uh oh…. falling behind already. We’re going to have to work hard at having fun in order to stay on track. This week we completed: 8. Flower headbands: 3 jun 2013 26. Decatur Scavenger Hunt: 5 jun 2013 30. Do a jigsaw puzzle:
summer passport 2013: week 2
This week, we completed *seven* more of our summer passport activities. I fear that with as little time we are spending in town, we are going to find it hard to get to the local items on our list, but we’ll try! This week we completed: 1. Create summer passport stamp: 30 may 2013 2.
Georgia: Gold City
As part of our Georgia history studies, we headed to “Gold City”, Dahlonega. While there we visited the diving bell, ate lunch at a great restaurant, explored the Dahlonega Gold Museum Historic Site and panned for gold and toured a gold mine at the Consolidated Gold Mines. Not only was it a fun day trip,
summer passport 2013: week 1
As school got out on Friday, we’ve only had two days to work on our summer passport activities. At the moment, we are still adding ideas to our list, trying to get it to reach 67 items. However, we’ve already started to work through the list! This two-day week we: 37. Attend TimeGateCon: 24-26 may
school: graduation
After almost two years at F.AVE, it is time for Chloe to move on from being in upper elementary and onto middle school. The past two years have been a roller-coaster of lows and highs. I’m thrilled with the mentoring, guiding and teaching she’s had this year, and I hope she’ll have more of the
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