Today Zia and I went to the Wonderscope Children’s Museum, in Shawnee Mission, KS. It’s a pretty cool place. There are several rooms, each with an activity focus, including: Science and Nature, Raceway (a crazy course for golf balls), an Art room, Small Wonders (for ages 2 and under), a Hospital, and a Lego room themed […]
Well, here I am to say I am still alive and have not fallen off the edge of the world…yet. Yesterday we had our first bit of snow. Enough to feel like winter but not enough to stick and be pretty. The leaves have mostly turned brown. I’m feeling a little cooped up and a bit under the weather. […]
Today my girl turned sixteen…..months. To celebrate, I took her to the Plaza Library. There’s a great section for kids, with lots of open space for running (or crawling) around. There are kid-size chairs and tables, and lots of little activity things. There’s even a puppet theater with puppets, and coloring tables with a writable surface and a […]
I’ve decided that even more than I love fall, I love the changing of the seasons, and all that comes with them. There’s a freshness, yet a familiarity, in each season. In the fall, it’s the way the world is filled with red and yellow and gold, and the way the briskness of the air contrasts so sharply with the […]
Things got a little wild in the kitchen last night. Around 5 pm I finished blending the peculiar purple porridge, and poured it into my Yogourmet for several hours of fermentation (I usually let it go for 8-14 hours to make sure I build up a nice population of happy healthy critters). Half-past midnight as I […]
