This weekend I ran into my high school German teacher, the midwife who delivered one of our Squirrelings, and then a whole lot more faces from the past at the memorial service for a former pastor and family friend. Even at a sad time, there is something reassuring about meeting up with so many people that you don't need to be introduced to...even if it is a bit disconcerting to see everybody that much older, it's nice to know that so many of them are still there.
Crayons celebrated her ninth birthday this month and today we had a bowling party for her and a few friends. Ponytails was a great help icing the purple cupcakes. We found miniature bowling sets at Everything For a Dollar, to put in the loot bags. Maybe not as original as last year's horse party, but some years are just like that!
We are just a few weeks from finishing this year's spring term. Plans for this week include winding up the dinosaur study, which has been kind of an on-again-off-again unit. Crayons and I finished Geography Can Be Fun and At The Back of the North Wind last week, along with her Balance Benders workbook and the Math Mammoth chapter on telling time. She was supposed to write the test on that last week but I put it off until tomorrow because we were doing some other review work. Ponytails finished reading Belles on Their Toes. We're still reading Kim together...that one doesn't go too fast. We're also reading My Side of the Mountain (the book where Sam Gribley runs away and lives in the woods).
Books on Mama Squirrel's nightstand: Math Power (re-reading); For the Family's Sake (re-reading); a biography of Robertson Davies.
Blooming in the back yard: lilacs (still going) and dandelions (still going). In the side garden: Swiss chard, enough to make a small salad for tonight (along with burgers and barbecued polenta).
Here's a trivia question based on Crayons' reading from Kingsley's The Heroes: "Go feed thy tortoise thyself." Who said it and why?
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