Phew!  Three weeks into school and the world tips onto another axis.  I teach two days a week at a public charter school.  We have an arts focus (yay!).  We are struggling with the budget crisis and terrible funding in California.  Every year we lose more resources.  Yet we don't want kids to pay for adult problems, so we work hard to compensate ( Read more... )

We field-tripped to the Imaginarium and Mud Hut with Anika today.  Ian slapped at a chunk of clay while Anika molded a mountain and river and arctic fox. The Imaginarium science museum was a nice playground for Anika and sleep-zone for Ian, who I carried in the Moby-wrap.

I arrived home with a long list of chores but ended up lying down with Ian ( Read more... )

Not sure this will let me post because I'm at work and usually I get bumped because of security/firewall issues.  Curious.  Cold and sunny outside.  Students left over an hour ago but I have a meeting in an hour so I'm here.  Looking at boxes and piles and the fake Christmas tree by my desk that needs other things moved to give it a home for the ( Read more... )