I got my first Moonlight Chronicle way back in 2004. I loved it and subscribed to a couple of future issues. I got so hooked on that great feeling of opening the mailbox and seeing that small but thick envelope nestled there, with one or other MC stamp and Dan’s crazy handwriting on it. So …
Monthly Archives: February 2008
More Montessori Games
Amie has taken a great liking to this game, another one straight from a Montessori lesson. A while ago I introduced the tea set and the pitcher to let her pour water as a game, and her own drink at mealtime. More recently, I also gave her the responsibility of filling the sugar pot. She …
Sick Child and More Reading
Amie is ill again. She has “upper respiratory problems”. One child sniffs > Amie gets a cold. Our trip to the Science Museum was fun, but by the evening I could see that we had brought home more than a bunch of good memories. Yesterday she spent the day glued to me. She slept until …
Family Reading
Amie gets it! She was talking about something and suddenly said: – Mama, more begins with M. I had always found it strange that she could rhyme so naturally – she picked it up in one day, months ago – but that she couldn’t isolate the first letter, or sound, of a spoken word, until …
Spontaneous Crafting and the Bambi Pull Toy
We had a wonderful Sunday filled with family fun. A visit to the Science Museum (DH and I have lived in Boston for almost 10 and this was our first visit!), shopping together (wonderful to see Amie interact with strangers in the store), building and flying paper airplanes (from this wonderful book), reading books and …
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The People, Signing Her Own Name, Growth Spurt
Amie drew “The People” today. 4 of them. 1 big person and 3 tiny ones: She also signed her name on the back: We’ve been working on letters, and this is her first full written word (besides “8oo”, i.e., “Boo”). The A she has down pat. The M still tends to flatten out and go …
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Kitchen Duties
Filling the sugar pot (great small motor control exercise!): Stretching the pizza dough with Baba: Eat:
After the Novel
Here’s my pledge: After the novel is done, (I still have a couple of months to go before I release it to the Underworld—I mean, the industry… Cheeze!) I’m going to make something with my hands! Dig a garden (if we have one by then). Make a cob structure for Amie (in the garden, if …
My 2004 Zine The Puffin (part 1)
Years ago, in 2004, I put together a (literally) small “zine” called The Puffin. It was a zine for family and friends, inspired by Dan Price’s awesome Moonlight Chronicles and Danny Gregory’s Everyday Matters blog (before he became so insanely popular). I just happened upon the original .jpg version of The Puffin – I no …
At the Farm, and Eating Animals
– I’m drinking Luella’s milk [*], I’m eating Little Red Hen’s bread [**]… And when I eat chicken, do I eat Little Red Hen? We’ve been talking about the food chain a lot lately, ever since Amie watched the movie Madagascar, which is a wonderful spoof on the food chain, with a tongue-in-cheek ending (“The …