Ane’s in Maui, Rerun’s at summer camp, and this week, Tad is at the art studio, taking an intro to watercolors day camp class from his teacher. Watercolors has never been Tad’s preferred medium, but I was pleased to have him choose this camp and try something new. I’m enjoying seeing him stretch himself a […]

Leave it to Tad to turn an evening’s project into a three-week process when he decides to deviate from the assignment. I mean, I don’t mind, and I don’t think his teacher minded, but when Tad decides to go Batman, he goes full-out Batman. This was supposed to be a trapeze figure on a string.  […]

And Rerun’s Galileo biography bottle is done and off to school a day early!  (It’s due tomorrow.) We got to the point where Rerun was saying “yes, Mom, whatever” while I was waving felt and the hot-glue gun around.  He did less work than he should have on the body, but he did insist on […]

Galileo is progressing. However, since I am in charge of the hot-glue gun (mostly because I don’t want Rerun burning himself – been there, done that on MYSELF as a kid), I delegated the task of cutting a whole lot of yarn to Rerun. Since Galileo had a mustache and beard (according to his portraits) […]