Getting to Know My Enemies

“Perfect is the enemy of good.”  That image of perfect comes from so many places.  Books and movies, holiday parties, even memories.  We whitewash our memories, change them, push away the bad parts and amplify the good parts.  When I do that, and then I try to hold up as a standard my memory of […]

The Crazy Season Begins

Resetting the calendars to October always brings home the fact that the crazy season in now upon us.  Here come the holiday decorations, three months of beautiful neighborhood displays that get bigger and brighter every year. Here come the birthdays, four birthdays in as many days just in our house, plus more birthdays of family […]

A’Kos Visits the Renaissance

The Michigan Renaissance Festival is open for only one Friday each year. It is School Day, an opportunity for area schools to organize field trips in the name of history. Tickets are half price for groups that purchase in bulk ahead of time, coupon books provide a little food discount, and the actors tone down […]

The Kender Project: A Roundtable IEP

My first children were a set of triplets born at 26 weeks gestation, 14 weeks early.  We went from happy young couple planning to start a family to being thrown straight into the crazy and confusing world of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, times three.  Because they were both triplets and micropreemies, we got a […]

Sleepy

Getting up at seven in the morning really doesn’t agree with me, and yet I keep making commitments that require this ungodly hour of rising.  All the right people sleep until noon.  What am I doing getting up at seven?  Classes for this, classes for that, appointments, field trips.  I really think the Renaissance Festival […]

A’Kos Goes to School

I realized after we got home that I didn’t get any pictures of A’Kos and Kender today.  I’ll have to remedy that next week!  Today was A’Kos’ first trip to Foster where we have our homeschool co-op classes.  Kender has been waiting to go back to Foster ever since the last term ended, and the […]

Mabon Reflections

  Today is Mabon, the celebration of the fall equinox in the Northern Hemisphere.  The world sits at the balance between the summer half of the year and the winter.  Now the days begin to grow shorter, the nights longer.  Now we reap the fruits of the harvest, the corn and the wheat, the apples […]

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