Another Kiwi Crate has arrived that was right up Rerun’s alley! Behold the Solar Spinner! Yes, he loved this.  There is a small LED light in the sun (which you can turn off by re-inserting the tab), and then the Earth and Moon are on their own gear.  As you spin the entire thing, the […]

It was a strange Mother’s Day.  No church in the morning.  No large get-together for brunch or dinner.  Just us. Just us on a gorgeous, near-summer day, with a BBQ dinner in the backyard. I am an incredibly blessed mom.

I’ve tried, but Tad’s heart belongs to marine biology.  There is no way I can get him deeply interested in history – especially drier, abstract concepts like the Nullification Crisis of 1832-1833 under President Andrew Jackson.  But that’s what he’s doing right now in history. So, he’s drawing a comic strip. He is learning a […]

Thumper has a lot of work to do on his handwriting.  His fine motor skills overall are on the weak side, and his hand grip is very loose for a lot of things. His school OT pointed me to an app that he liked using at school, Writing Wizard for Kids.  So we bought it […]