This is what we've been up to: in addition to normal, daily schooling, keeping the house tidy, the laundry going, and getting healthy meals on the table we have a weekly family art class and tennis class, the girls have a weekly ballet class, and we're in the 5-hour rehearsal phase for their upcoming play 'Narnia'. Tennie has a weekly group class for creative writing, Latin, Logic and Calligraphy, and she and I are taking an online piano course once a week (with daily practice), and Adele has a horse lesson twice a week. Most of these activities are an hour round-trip in the car. We've been to see an Elementary School performance of 'Annie', and a ballet performance of 'Alice in Wonderland' and anticipated/planned a birthday party. We've changed our oil, been to the dentist, received a new hand-me-down bunny hutch and gave it a good cleaning, captured an escaped bunny, handed in our semester samples to the Charter School that makes it possible to do all of this, and Geoff and I completed a week-long detox. Geoff was in San Francisco this last week at another Young Global Leader gathering, and left today for a Young Global Leader-sponsored, two-week program at Harvard. We're researching and planning a month long trip that will include Easter at my mom's, and a two-week camping trip...all while trying to get a good nights sleep! This pace is a little outside my comfort zone...
A few random pictures from the last two weeks:
The girl's young ballet teacher, Anna Solomon, was the Knave in 'Alice in Wonderland'
Feeling cooped up after seemingly endless days of rain the girls created make-shift rain gear out of garbage bags to go outside without getting soaked to the bone.
There must have been one rainless afternoon because here is Adele gathering food for her "horse"
One night we made spring rolls. This was a grand slam dinner! Everyone made their own by dipping the rice paper in hot water, filling it with cucumbers, carrots, peppers, pea sprouts, fresh basil, chicken and rice, and then we had some peanut sauce for dipping. The girls each ate at least five because they loved making them!
We have large flocks of wild turkeys on the property, and with it being mating season we have "muscle beach" (as Geoff's dad calls it) shows almost every day. The males puff up, strut around with great pomp, and the ladies just eat grass as though they don't exist. It is great entertainment. We continue to feed Adele's very hungry caterpillars who keep getting bigger and bigger! (Although only two of the four are still alive.)
And that is it, folks. I am up to date, and you know you haven't missed much!
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