[TypePad, my usually extremely reliable blogging software, won't let me insert any pictures today and I'm extremely frustrated, but I decided to go ahead with the post I was planning and let you use your own imagination.] =( So, just picture this... I created a cute "Happy Easter" graphic using my Wacom Tablet and ...
Lifestyle
Posts about everything going on in my life. Enjoy!
I Called My Mother OR Terms of Endearment – Part Deux
I would like to take the moment to announce that I, Kikita, am alive and well. Feel free to call off the search. I appreciate your concern. I have called my mother. The questions remaining are as follows: 1. Where have I been? 2. What did I call her? 1. Work has been busier, so I am not as readily availabe for a chat in the middle of the day and ...
How to Cha-Cha
You know those uber-dorky people who have a dictionary and an atlas sitting near the dinner table so that they can look stuff up when they start arguing during dinner about ways to pronounce words, or the capital of someplace, or what exactly a rhombus is? We are those people. By the way... In geometry a rhombus or rhomb is a quadrilateral whose ...
The Taming of the Do – Part 1
DISCLAIMER: The following post may sound like a commercial for different hair products, but it's not really. I just added the photos and links because I'm a giver. ;-) Hair products are a big thing at our house. We have to have different kinds of shampoos and things because all of our hair types are so different. Lucy just got her ...
One of these things is not like the others….
Do you remember this sorting song from Sesame Street? One of these things is not like the others,One of these things just doesn't belong, Can you tell which thing is not like the others By the time I finish my song?Can you guess which of my essentials is not like the other? 1) My glasses.2) My phone.3) My purse.4) My garlic press.You ...
Happiness delivered to my door
Another delightful blog-hijacking brought to you by Lucy Darby: Last week I purchased these adorable 1950s-retro-nerd glasses from this fabulous online store called Red Velvet Art. If you take a look at yesterday's post, you'll see that I'm wearing them. But I thought they deserved a little back story. Or, as my English teacher would ...
It’s a beautiful morning
I sometimes feel like I do a lot.(and I do, but that's not important right now.) I set out the other day to document a regular school/work day around here. (okay, I'm not going to give you all the graphic and gory details. Just the broad strokes.) Here's how it usually goes.... Every Morningby MartaI get up. (Okay, so ...
My Brain is Dead Today
This is Lucy. And this is Official Blog-Hijacking Attempt #2. The following is a post I did on my own super-secret-double-probation blog. I haven't posted enough articles to share with you yet, but when I do, you'll be the first to hear about it. In the meantime, here ya go... - - - I have been doing Geometry for the past ...
Sharing life.
Twenty-five. That's how many steps it takes us to walk from our front door to our next-door neighbor's door. Twenty-five steps. And we walk those twenty-five steps dozens of times during the week (sometimes during one day, but that's not important right now). Debbie ( the mom): "We made homemade enchiladas. Come for ...
Learning to do advanced geometry
One of the beautiful things about home education is that I get to learn stuff alongside my kids. Seriously, I think back to when I was in high school and learning Algebra and Geometry. Well, "learning" might be a bit of an exaggeration. I showed up. I kind of did what I was told to do. I parroted answers that I had ...
