All the experiments use the same description. Just light a match under the peanut, it'll burn, they say ( Read more... )

Today was the roll-your-own vacation #fieldtrip to the I.D., mostly the Wing Luke Museum but of course also Uwajimaya & Kinokuniya Bookstore.

The Bruce Lee exhibit was awesome, the Internment Camp exhibit was sobering, and there were so many interesting things to look at; I think there is a chance that the desire to learn embroidery that all the ( Read more... )

Today was root canal day! Woo.

And apparently becuase I am very special, I have an extra root on that tooth, so I get to come back for part 2 in two weeks. Yay ( Read more... )

O just saw my "Black Lives Matter is not a radical statement" hoodie for the first time and was like "of course it isn't" *quizzical look ( Read more... )

Our educational afternoon: Fahrenheit 451 at the Driftwood Players.


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O is not a fan of this being a teen-ager now thing, but is definitely in favor of birthday ice cream. Always a double scoop of pink bubblegum with rainbow sprinkles.

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They're both in middle school now which blows my mind ( Read more... )

We lucked into finding this great park for D to play in when we were super early for his appointment. There was much running and rolling down hills and admiring flowers

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D got bored and went spelunking in our "library room" which is walls of full bookshelves and, um, not-unpacked boxes of things in the middle instead of the planned comfy chair ( Read more... )

Dan is following Olivia around "shooting a documentary" with my phone, and is doing the very anthropological-esque discussions of "native pastimes" in this improbably fruity faux-Brit accent.

I swear I haven't made them watch David Attenborough-narrated anything in years.