Dewey's Treehouse

Mama Squirrel (reading from Exploring Creation With Astronomy ): "That's Venus. Of course, you will know that it's not a star...

You reap what you sow--sometimes beyond. I have great sympathy for big brother Tim, whose preschool sister Miss M. is horning in on his LOTR...

Crayons was reading a poem out loud and said that it was by "Annie Mouse." Hm? Oh....boy, that Annie Mouse has written a lot of po...

A Treehouse slip of the tongue: "Here, Grandpa, you can take these nuts home and open them with a firecracker."

Continued from this post. OK...some more thoughts on dealing with frugality burnout. 1. This is something that has worked for me: keep a...

"Watching the Stooges is funnier when you're watching too, Mom." (Mr. Fixit bought us a stack of Three Stooges videos for a Ch...

"Put him in a walnut until he's sober, put him in a walnut until he's sober..."

This snowless week, and a fairly dry although not very pretty Saturday without any dance lessons or pressing need for (regular) groceries (a...

Crayons: I liked The Pond People . I liked how it's sort of short and nice. Ponytails: I liked doing Benjamin West, and Calculadder, ...

Sometimes I make up worksheets like this for Crayons so that she can work independently while I'm reading with Ponytails. This is what ...

Mostly for Canadians (sorry!): Last year when Ponytails was doing ancient history, I mentioned the British Museum ancient history book/time...

I read something today that my friend the DHM posted : a snip from an old book that talked about teachers--even way back when--being of kind...

This is the kind of book review you will not want to miss. (Charles Foran's Globe and Mail Books review of CULTURAL AMNESIA: Notes in...

Way back when (actually it was Christmas of 2000), Kraft sent around a recipe flier with a recipe for Chocolate Truffle Pie.  2022 Updated L...

Or I was, anyway... Circle of Quiet has a post about Patches of Godlight and some of "Father Tim's" favourite quotations.

What's in your hand...this year it was a spool of lovely red ribbon that we found at a rummage sale in the summer, and two spools of wid...

Or, if you give a mom a Ziploc... To read the rest of this post, come on over here and I'll whisper the rest while the Squirrelings are...

Birdie was asking for shortbread recipes , and that reminded me that I've never posted our recipe for Lemon Poppy Seed Shortbread. This...

I finished Shepherds Abiding . It didn't matter that it was the eighth in the series and that I didn't know all the characters...the...

"He went to the coat rack by the back door and put on his fleece jacket, zipped it up, and popped a toboggan on his head."--Jan Ka...