Yesterday evening we decided to escape domestic life and go play in the woods. First we stopped at a pond to check out the wildlife, where it began to rain on us. So we hit the road and headed away from the storm. After driving on a forest service road for thirty minutes we reached […]
Thirteen Random Things In My Head
1) I started watching the final season of QAF this week. It came out on DVD a few weeks ago and since I don’t have cable I’ve had to wait to see it. I love, love, love this show and I almost didn’t want to start this last season because […]
Hi, my name is Susan and I’m an intellectual, feminist, stay-at-home mom, as are many of my friends. Yes, we do exist!
This post originally started off as a response to Unleashing the Wrath of Stay-at-Home Moms, Moonshadow’s post about the continuing so-called “mommy wars”. But of course I got long winded (big surprise there) so […]
My kids don’t do well with highly structured lessons, especially when it comes to reading. But they do love to play computer games and along the way we’ve discovered a few neat resources that fall into the “learning to read” category. Best thing about these tools is that my kids ask to play with them. […]
We spent some time with my family this weekend and one of the many lovely things we enjoyed was sitting quietly and watching hummingbirds. At first there were only three very determined little guys who braved a fierce rainstorm to zoom into the feeder for a nibble. As soon as the rain stopped and the […]
