Egyptian studies
March 5, 2008
Celine (Laurent & Brienne also) recently crafted Eqyptian figures out of wooden pieces we picked up on our last visit to the Share Center. Making these figures expended hours of creative energy and then provided hours of dramatic play. This self directed activity of the kids is launching an Ancient ...
Free Range Children
March 4, 2008
This is fairly long post that someone else wrote but it expresses what I dream & hope for our children's education, minus the farm life & raising chickens. var addthis_pub="rtougas";
Snowshoeing Date
March 4, 2008
In a departure from our usual do-everything-as-a-family routine Laurent & I went snowshoeing, just the two of us, yesterday afternoon.
new books
February 28, 2008
Two books arrived in the mail this week, Pagan Christianity by Frank Viola & George Barna and Simply Christian by N. T. Wright. Buying select books is still a fairly new trend in our house - oh I love books. So excited about reading Pagan Christianity! Reading it encourages me ...
Ethnic Eclectic
February 27, 2008
In anticipation of my parent's visit next week during which my dad is going to paint our kitchen I've been doing renovation research. It all started last weekend when we were at the hotel Saturday night and I watched 2 hours of HGTV (very addicting tv). Afterwards I did a ...
Happy Birthday Laurent
February 26, 2008
Yesterday we celebrated Laurent's 7th birthday with a race car themed party. Laurent decorated the walls with large drawings of cars and sent racing car invitations. Daddy set up an xbox borrowed from friends to play Need for Speed, we put together Laurent's hot wheels track and raced little cars ...
