http://lansberrypatch.blogpeoria.com Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:55:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en That's why this blog hasn't been updated in a coon's age. Every tiny scrap of household habit must be pulled kicking and struggling out a vast, beautiful universe of possibility and nailed into place firmly with at least 34 8-D stainless steel common nails. And yet it still struggles to ... http://lansberrypatch.blogpeoria.com/2008/07/25/i-stink-at-routine/ Yesterday on one of the forums I occasionally visit, someone wished a happy Pi day. You know, it was 3/14, and Pi is 3.14 etc., etc. So I threw an impromptu Pi celebration at supper. Everyone had circles on their plates, and we measured the circumference and diameter. A CD, ... http://lansberrypatch.blogpeoria.com/2008/03/16/belated-happy-pi-day/ I have recently been introduced to the TED talks, and find them wonderfully stimulating. Here is one by Sir Ken Robinson asking the question of whether schools kill creativity. I love his illustration of schools strip mining minds for that one element that is prized, but leaving devastation behind. ... http://lansberrypatch.blogpeoria.com/2008/03/05/strip-mining-brains/ These pictures have been delayed by the onset of the flu here. The girls went to Maria's Tea Room for a birthday celebration with some of their friends. As you can see from the pictures, they had a grand time! Thank you, Grandma, for such ... http://lansberrypatch.blogpeoria.com/2008/03/03/tea-party-for-the-birthday-girls/ Yesterday, James was feeling yucky and didn't go to church. Margary stayed home with him so she could get her full nap and so I could actually hear the sermon without Miss Wigglepants distracting me. By all accounts she had a great time at home with her papa reading from ... http://lansberrypatch.blogpeoria.com/2008/02/18/midnight-deluge/ Birthdays are wonderful, a chance for stopping to rejoice in the beautiful people that God has given us. Elsie on the 6th, and Moriah yesterday. Happy Birthday, my sweet daughters! (Raquel and Noah kicked off the birthday season at the end of January). I am glad to have a chance ... http://lansberrypatch.blogpeoria.com/2008/02/15/winter-birthday-season-is-over-etc/ You know how a love story goes. Boy and girl meet. They fall in love against all odds. And after some thrilling, heartpounding moments, there is a happily ever after. It is shame that the story ends there. Because it is the happily ever where true love shines like a ... http://lansberrypatch.blogpeoria.com/2008/02/15/happily-ever-after/ I love tea, and the other day I came across a new one. Coca Tea. In learning more about it, I came across a website selling Mint Coca Tea with this description: "The mint infusion is one good stomach when it has to do with discomfort, you nauseate or vomits.In the ... http://lansberrypatch.blogpeoria.com/2008/02/04/some-people-are-not-made-to-go-into-marketing/ The children continue to make progress in their learning. Peter is sneaking up on reading more and more. Elsie has started multiplication and shown marked improvement in writing her numerals in the last couple weeks. I rarely have to make her go back and write one again now. Toby is ... http://lansberrypatch.blogpeoria.com/2008/02/02/striding-forward/ Margary loves the phone. She gets very excited when it rings, and yells loudly until someone answers it. She likes to pretend to talk on the phone, but won't say a thing if we put her on a live call. Lately she seems to like best watching intently the person ... http://lansberrypatch.blogpeoria.com/2008/02/02/our-little-monkey/