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Melospiza: Update: Not snowing anymore
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Birds, books, bats and bugbites. Monday, July 8, 2013. Update: Not snowing anymore. 1 The other day I came home from work to find the washing machine on. This was during a week of independence training for the kids, while M. was in Utah and I had to work all day, so I was uncertain whether to be thrilled or worried. "You're doing laundry? Oh, I'm washing my stuffed animals," she said. Sure enough, I peeked in the dryer and there was the first batch, washed and tumbled. Huh. They were so dirty! Helen, bei...
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Melospiza: August 2013
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Birds, books, bats and bugbites. Friday, August 23, 2013. Mom, why are you calling me Buttercup? School is in the building! The kids were starry eyed and tired on Monday, but basically happy and glad to be back (although Silas did greet the rising sun by throwing one arm to the sky and howling “noooooooooo”). All of their nagging questions of the past few weeks have been laid to rest: will my friends be in my classes? Will I like my teachers? Will I have homework the first day? Speaking of class therapy ...
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Melospiza: Back with our packs
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Birds, books, bats and bugbites. Wednesday, July 24, 2013. Back with our packs. Now that sports season is over, we can do. Some days it seems that we are. They were fine, of course. They were excited about the trip as soon as they started packing. They didn't complain about the 4-hour drive, not even once. When we piled out at the trailhead Helen did ask, nervously, if we were going to be the only ones camping where we were going - "I hope so! We're not in bear country, so." "Uh, marmot country? And Bust...
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Melospiza: Mom, why are you calling me Buttercup?
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Birds, books, bats and bugbites. Friday, August 23, 2013. Mom, why are you calling me Buttercup? School is in the building! The kids were starry eyed and tired on Monday, but basically happy and glad to be back (although Silas did greet the rising sun by throwing one arm to the sky and howling “noooooooooo”). All of their nagging questions of the past few weeks have been laid to rest: will my friends be in my classes? Will I like my teachers? Will I have homework the first day? Speaking of class therapy ...
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Melospiza: Cultivation concerto for two hands and a couple of feet
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Birds, books, bats and bugbites. Friday, August 2, 2013. Cultivation concerto for two hands and a couple of feet. It's been a long week of baseball. How is this possible, you might ask, seeing that baseball season ended two weeks ago to much celebration? I might ask that, too, except I know the dreary answer to the question, and that answer is: tryouts. In the past three weeks Silas has attended tryouts for 6 -ish? It's not really possible for him to appreciate what we do for him," I argued. "I don't...
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Melospiza: February 2013
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Birds, books, bats and bugbites. Wednesday, February 13, 2013. Wolf Creek Ski Report. We made a family ski trip this past weekend. This is one of those things that sounds a little like a Beautiful People activity when you casually mention it, that feels like an exercise in exhaustion and forced toleration while you're in it, and when you're home, washed and rested, seems like the kind of thing that Makes Life Worthwhile. Both children are wearing skis. Thursday, February 7, 2013. 3 Slice open the pumpkin...
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Melospiza: September 2012
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Birds, books, bats and bugbites. Saturday, September 22, 2012. This is pretty much his approach to life right now. What most people say about middle school, actually, is that it doesn't matter where you go, large academically challenging school, small intimate school, personally designed and tailored just-to-you school, middle school is hard. It's the time of life. It's just difficult, and also your companions are difficult, and also your parents start getting on your case in the weirdest ways. Which com...
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Melospiza: August 2012
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Birds, books, bats and bugbites. Thursday, August 30, 2012. So, School started. There's the awesomeness: middle school is like a whole different game, not only in terms of the obvious, classes and lockers etc. (they get to read Call of the Wild. And also other things), but also in terms of expectations for parents. It's sort of assumed that we have lives outside our parenting responsibilities, for example. There's an activity bus. It's like the independence I've been pushing for since 2005 is finally here.
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Melospiza: April 2013
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Birds, books, bats and bugbites. Thursday, April 25, 2013. Winter of my discontent. Tuesday morning we woke to this:. See that stuff on the road? That's ice. Ice. In April. Snow I can do, but ice? Third Tuesday in row, besides. Soccer was cancelled. Baseball was cancelled. All activities celebrating the great outdoors were shut down, possibly forever, because how exactly are we going to do swim season, or camping season, or anything season, with a blizzard every Tuesday? It's had an effect on my mood.
